It's the year of the Snake in China. That means it's time for automakers to start pandering to the hugely expanding Chinese market!

Hollywood loves to disguise Budapest by adding a few extra Ladas parked on the streets, with fake communist monuments in the background and blue street signs everywhere to make it look like Moscow. Since it's a much nicer experience to shoot a movie here than over in Russia, that's exactly what they did once again…

Dartz, probably the best of all the Latvian car makers, has made some of the most epic armored trucks — and movie posters — of the last decade.

Dartz, our favorite of all the insane Latvian armored car makers, will be supplying Bruce Willis with some armored transport for the next Die Hard film, A Good Day To Die Hard, that's due to be released in 2013.

Sasha Baron Cohen's new flick The Dictator features the titular character driving around in a gold-plated armored SUV built by the Vodka enthusiasts at Latvian truck-maker Dartz. To celebrate the tie-up, Dartz announced a $750,000 version of their battle truck called the "Gold Aladeen Edition" after Cohen's fictitious…

Here are the first pictures and video of the gold-plated DARTZ Kombat armored trucks driven by Sasha Baron Cohen in his new film "The Dictator" — based loosely on a novel the CIA believes was written by Saddam Hussein.

Which do you think has a harder time on a rockpile — the woman in the old-fashioned Playboy bunny getup, or the Prombron of Leo Dartz? This video still needs something else, like a hundred tiny giraffes with wings. NSFW language.

Let's face it: Once you've clad a military truck in fake whale-penis leather, what do you do for an encore? Perhaps wrapping a Bugatti Veyron in red chrome will do the trick. At least for Kostyantyn, the adult-toy-superstore king of Dnipropetrovsk.

Only one thing could bring together Pamela Anderson, Sacha Baron Cohen, Saddam Hussein, and whale penis leather: Russian carmaker Dartz, who will provide a golden armored car for the filming of the fantasy Saddam Hussein biopic "The Dictator."

Yesterday was International Womans' Day? Sorry, gals, we forgot! Russian boutique carmaker Dartz didn't, and, somewhat honoring IWD, it's building a version of its SUV for the daughter of a Kazakh oil king. Also, no whale penis for the ladies!