Mini Clubman Agent Provocateur

[Gt1Street]

Munich/Vienna, 03.06.2008 - Videos whirred and cameras clicked on Saturday, 17 May, when Joseph Corre drove the Life Ball MINI 2008 over the red carpet outside Vienna's City Hall in front of 40,000 spectators. Escorted by four models in "British policemen's uniforms", and with Sophie Ellis Bextor in the passenger seat, the arrival of the Life Ball MINI 2008 marked the start of the fantastic opening show.

The Life Ball MINI is traditionally created by the fashion designer responsible for the fashion show in the opening event - and in 2008, this was the British lingerie label Agent Provocateur. This year, the new MINI Cooper Clubman was selected as the basis for this exclusive, unique design. "The new shape is so reminiscent of the old English Mini police van that we were immediately inspired to create an Agent Provocateur styled interior that you really would want to get banged up in! A classic yet suped up exterior in Agent Provocateur signature pink and black colours complete with pink flashing light and inside.....the most seductive prison cell with hand to wall cuffs and blacked out windows and iron bars", says Agent Provocateur founder Joseph Corre.

The unique - and escape-proof - Life Ball MINI will once again be auctioned on eBay, as happens each year. It all starts on Thursday, 5 June - and then MINI and Agent Provocateur fans throughout the world have the opportunity for ten days to buy this unique car and do something for charity too. The total proceeds from the auction will be donated, as always, to Life Ball and to projects aimed at combating HIV/AIDS. So far, the auction of the "Life Ball MINIs" - transformed by such famous fashion icons as Diesel, Missoni, Ferré and Versace - has raised a total of € 260,000.-.

Worldwide measures to combat HIV/AIDS are one of the main elements of the corporate and social policy pursued by the BMW Group. The company's involvement in South Africa is particularly wide-ranging, covering a comprehensive workplace programme for employees and their families, plus a number of different projects in the local communities and further afield.

But the automobile manufacturer is also committed to fighting this pandemic in other affected countries, such as Thailand or China, for example. The company's membership of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GBC) underlines its long-term commitment at its individual locations.

"By supporting Vienna's Life Ball, the MINI brand is going its own way and making its own very individual contribution to the fight against this auto-immune disease", says Andreas-Christoph Hofmann, Head of Brand Communication MINI, commenting on the brand's involvement here. "The Life Ball brings the pandemic back into the public's awareness each year in a very emotional way, and the auction of each uniquely designed MINI produces a major financial contribution to projects aimed at fighting HIV/AIDS."

Half of the proceeds will be donated to national projects in Austria. The other half will be used to benefit international projects, with allocation of funds regulated by the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR).

[Gt1Street]

Mini Clubman Agent Provocateur #2

[Jack_Bauer]

Just when you thought the Mini Clubman couldn't get any worse...

That thing is hideous. And their underwear, although quite nice, is ridiculously over priced...

[faksta]

I don't know.. Of course, I wouldn't buy it and wouldn't like to ride one, but I think as a show car it works quite well.

[Street_Dreamer]

Originally Posted by Jack_Bauer

Just when you thought the Mini Clubman couldn't get any worse...

That thing is hideous. And their underwear, although quite nice, is ridiculously over priced...

x2. As if the standard Clubman wasn't ugly enough... This should be illegal.

[digitalcraft]

So the clubman dressed up in a slutty cop uniform, is there a slutty maid uniform clubman too? Does it come with fuzzy handcuffs attached to the dashboard? Is the glove compartment labeled 'whip storage'?

I could see a slutty corvette, but a slutty clubman is like a ugly woman in lingerie; it goes from just being ugly to being ugly and disturbing.

[Street_Dreamer]

Originally Posted by digitalcraft

So the clubman dressed up in a slutty cop uniform, is there a slutty maid uniform clubman too? Does it come with fuzzy handcuffs attached to the dashboard? Is the glove compartment labeled 'whip storage'?

First on the list of buyers will almost certainly be Max Mosley

[Roentgen]

I know this isn't related, but does anyone got some hi-res pics of the Bugatti Veyron Sang Noir?

("\ (O.O) /") Panda!

[clutch-monkey]

gah, hideous.
and this agent provocateur is pretty bad as well.

[Gt1Street]

Originally Posted by Roentgen

I know this isn't related, but does anyone got some hi-res pics of the Bugatti Veyron Sang Noir?

("\ (O.O) /") Panda!

have you checked the Inded ? if its not there post it in the requests to spread the word that you are looking for it

[NicFromLA]

Originally Posted by Street_Dreamer

First on the list of buyers will almost certainly be Max Mosley

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Roentgen]

Gt1Street: I don't know how to make new threads... O_o

[Gt1Street]

Originally Posted by Roentgen

Gt1Street: I don't know how to make new threads... O_o

I'm taking a wild guess that you are unable to post a new thread in the Hide-out, and that ok since its not availible for everyone. you can post almost everywhere else though. You should post in the Multimedia and if it belongs in the Hideout it will find its way there

[whitecue]

OK, so the car is ugly, agreed.

But where are the photos with the models in it? I want those!