100,000 Swarovski Crystals Turn This Jaguar E-Type Into the Flashiest Ride Ever

This looks like a Series 1 Jaguar E-Type, blinged out to appeal to the most eccentric and show-off car collector. In true "appearances can be deceiving" style, know that it's not a real E-Type, but it's still a functional car. It's a kiddie car made to order by a miniature car specialist from the UK, and if you're into sparkly objects on four wheels, it could be yours soon.

The E-Type mini car is known as the Crystal Car because it's covered in 100,000 crystals, all of them set by hand to create the most alluring ride possible. It's technically a kiddie car, so in that regard, the effort seems wasted – unless we're talking about a young driver who happens to have an unbound love for this kind of stuff.

The Crystal Car is also the name of the series of miniature crystal-set cars introduced by specialist Halfscale Cars in 2019, many of which were featured at Harrods. Offered with a variety of powertrains, from gasoline, electric, and the ol’-fashioned pedal power, they could customized with a range of colors for the crystals and interior fabrics.

Halfscale Cars promised some 50 shades just for the crystals, which you could then match to the interior. Prices varied depending on options and whether you got a gas engine, electric motor, or pedals.

This particular unit is offered with pedals, so here's to hoping your kid likes to break a sweat for transportation every now and then. It also features a working horn and working lights. It's been recognized as one of the Harrods Top 100 items sold in-store, and it's about to cross the auction block again with RM Sotheby's at their London 2023 event.

The estimate is £12,000 -£15,000 without a reserve and not including taxes. That's approximately $14,600-$18,200 at the current exchange rate for a pedal kiddie car shaped like a classic but dressed in Liberace's Sunday clothes.

Jokes aside, the craftsmanship of the work is incredible. Halfscale Cars says that only setting the stones – Swarovski Xirus cut crystals – takes about two months of work because it's done by hand. The interior is plush velour suede in matching gray, with diamond-quilted panels on either side. There's a bench-style seat for the young driver to sit on, but it doesn't seem to be the most comfortable option around.

Though functional, even Halfscale Cars once said these units were "preferred as stationary objects." This would make this very sparkly kiddie car the sparkliest oversize paperweight and, because of it, the perfect fit for a lounge outside an eccentric collector's garage.