Diamond-coated Ford Escape will be your valentine for $1.5 million

As Valentine's Day approaches, thoughts turn naturally to gifts, much to the glee of the world's diamond merchants. Yet those maudiln mall-store mavens really don't think big enough. Why give someone a trinket or a tassel with just a couple of crystals when you can fulfill their fantasies with a diamond-studded car — even if it is just a Ford Escape?

What you see here is a special customization package dreamed up by Jennings Ford in northeast England, and applied to the SUV known there as the Kuga. For 1 million British pounds (or $1.5 million), Jennings will hand-apply a special coating of more than 1 million diamonds and Svarvoski crystals to your choice of Ford family hauler. Being a car dealer, of course there's a pay-over-time option, where you just plunk down $152,000 up front and then make low monthly payments of $33,494 — for five years.

"Who says Fords aren't glamorous?" says the dealer in his online pitch. "Bringing more glitz to the North East has always been an ambition of mine, and with this ultra-glamorous optional extra, now I can."