Dartz Motorz Company is a privately held

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-based company, subsidiary of Estonian corporation Dartz Grupa OÜ, that designs, manufactures, and sells high performance

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. The company constituted itself from a renovated former Russo-Balt factory in

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In 2009, Dartz attained notoriety with its ''Prombron'' model, in part because it was originally available in upholstered leather made from the foreskins of

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es, which the company subsequently dropped after the controversy was publicized. The ''Prombron'' came in nine distinct models: Iron Diamond, Iron Xtal, Monaco Red Diamond Edition, Black Dragon, Black Russian, Gold Russian, Aladeen, White Horse, and Monako. Since September 2014, the product line consists of ''Prombron'' Black Shark and Black Snake. The ''Prombron'' is available in either the Saloon (sedan) or the Pullman (wagon), offered in standard, short, or long

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In 2010, Red Sea Distribution announced that the

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would be available in

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for a list price starting at $225,000. However, just two years later the T-98 Kombat was phased out, and the ''Prombron'' was released. Dartz's ''Prombron'' Monaco Red Diamond Edition was shown at the 2010 Top Marques in

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, with an expected price of

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1,000,000 ( $1.25 million), it would become the world's most expensive SUV. The features included white gold-ruby encrusted embedded badges as well as gold-plated, bullet-proof windows, an exhaust system made out of

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, diamond-ruby encrusted gauges, and Kevlar exterior coating. It also comes with three bottles of the world's most expensive vodka, ''RussoBaltique''. The website explains things about their vehicles like what animal skin the interior couches are made of, or how it smells, but no actual information along the lines of armor rating or vehicle performance.

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17. https://www.krone.at/2665033 SYMBOL FÜR PUTIN-KRIEG Militärautobauer Dartz entfernt Z aus dem Logo Sie bauen Autos wie Panzer, wie ehrfurchteinflößendes Kriegsgerät. Dartz Motorz heißt die Marke. Stationiert in Lettland, könnte man sagen. Auch wenn viele von „Russenbombern“ sprechen. Und sie tragen ein Z in ihrem Markenlogo. Bzw. trugen, denn das Z haben sie jetzt entfernt. Aus pazifistischen Gründen. Denn Z steht mittlerweile für den russischen Angriffskrieg auf die Ukraine.

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