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

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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 whale penises, 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. Dartz Prombron - Flickr - The Car Spy

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 T-98 Kombat 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''. In 2022 the company announced plans to drop its "Z" logo, to apparently portray itself away from its Russian origins in the

company. A diamond skull sign replaced it. Their web shop however, was as of May 2025 still marketing luxury "Z" incrusted products interspaced with weaponry images. Its website explains what animal skin the interior couches are made of, or how it smells, without actual information about the armor rating or vehicle's performance.

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