Luciano: This is the most expensive SUV in the world.
It's absolutely unique.
With a starting price of over $1,000,000.
this is the world's most expensive SUV.
And it even comes, with optional bullet proofing.
Designed by Luciano D'Ambrosio,
this is the Karlmann King.
Luciano: When you are in this business for so many years,
then you think, "Okay now how about, being a little bit different,
but especially a little bit exaggerated?"
As you can see
this vehicle is not symmetrical. The right hand side,
we have one front door and one rear door.
This is the left hand side of the car.
As you can see, we have only one door.
Instead of trying to find the perfect combination of surfaces,
we tried to create a break in the surfaces.
So somehow going opposite
from what design rules would ask for.
This is what we call diamond design.
It has to be big, dominant but in the same time not to be so aggressive.
It's absolutely unique.
It may have a highly unique look, but this car has drawn comparisons to another famous vehicle,
The Batmobile.
Luciano: So we created a vehicle which is really,
highly recognisable from any point of view.
Source of inspiration is very clear, in a stealth fighter.
On the monitor, we are going to
introduce the basic engineering construction of Karlmann King.
The basic construction of the car is fairly simple.
Imagine a shell that is built, in order to be overlapped
onto the original Ford F550 chassis.
This is a construction which allow us easily to adapt the shell,
which is always the same two different type of platform.
This car is totally customisable,
based on what the client desires
with many options for different interiors.
Luciano: Regarding customisation so we can both in exterior and interior design
introduce several adjustments.
But what's it like driving this diamond Batmobile around?
Luciano: Given the size of the car you would imagine
that you're driving an elephant, but
as a matter of fact it's a very flexible and nice drive.
You don't need any special ability to drive this car.
Regarding the mechanical contents of this project. we have started from
Ford F550 platform.
The engine which is installed in this car is a 6.7 V10, Ford engine.
Which performs around the 420 horses.
and can run to a top speed of about
220 kilometres an hour.
Starting price is $1,085,000.
And this is like the vehicle that we see here in our background.
We can move up to $3,800,000
according to the content that this vehicle will prefer.
The most favourite thing is the way people look at the car
not go unseen.
Basically we only got stunning type of comments and this I think
interesting and satisfying for the designer.