The World's Most Expensive Teddy: 125 Carat Bear from Steiff

The German teddy bear company, Steiff is responsible for the production many expensive collectible bears and also the most expensive teddy bear ever made. The Steiff company claims to have made the world’s first teddy bear and is has made this golden bear to commemorate its 125th anniversary.

The expensive bear has a mouth made of solid gold and fur made from gold thread. Topping off the teddy bear are jeweled eyes featuring sapphire pupils with diamond irises.



If you or your spoiled daughter simply “must have” the world’s most expensive teddy bear, you might have to search hard for the purchase. Only 125 of the collectible edition bears were produced, making them not just hard to afford, but also hard to find.

These bears came with a price tag of 62,446 Euros (about $84,000 USD). But you don’t have to empty your bank account just yet, Steiff toys makes a wide variety of teddy bears that are more affordable than anniversary edition and will still make you feel like a teddy bear connoisseur.

UPDATE: Now with his own diamond-studded toy elephant and other goodies.






Buy him here.

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First Official Pic of 2008 Subaru Impreza WRX STi

reprinted from today's Carscoop:
Stop the press! The first official teaser picture of the highly anticipated 2008 Subaru Impreza WRX STi just fell into our hands this morning catching us totally by surprise. We’re still waiting for the official release to get all the juicy details but for now we can tell you that the 2008 Impreza STi which will debut next month at the Tokyo Show, will be equipped with a 300 Hp turbocharged boxer engine. Despite the fact that this is just a teaser image shot from above, the bulgy fenders and the hood scoop leave no doubt that the STi will be quite more aggressive than its highly critiqued WRX spouse.

Below are images of the Subaru Impreza WRX from the year 2000 up to 2006 (with some years having more than one model) so you can see the design evolution.

These images are from Japan's Subaru site and they include S202, S203, S204 and the STi versions. Also, the models may have slight variations from Northern America Models:



click here for a link to the Subaru Japan site which is the first to have posted the shot at the top of this post.