Watch Ford build a Mustang atop Burj Khalifa, world’s tallest building

Watch Ford build a Mustang atop Burj Khalifa, world’s tallest building

Mangalore Today News Network

Dubai, Nov 26, 2014:  On the 112th floor of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, bosses of the Ford motor company showed off their new model - a yellow Mustang.

 Introducing the world’s highest car showroom.

A team of six engineers travelled with the special Mustang from Ford’s world headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, in the United States, to Dubai aboard an Emirates Airlines flight.

A team of engineers and mechanice spent 12 hours re-assembling the car in the world’s tallest building

The showing off of Ford’s yellow Mustang made floor 112 of the Burj Khalifa the world’s highest car showroom

 

Once the car arrived in Dubai, it was transported to the base of Burj Khalifa and carefully separated into six sections that could be transported to the 112th level via the building’s lifts.

The team re-assembled the vehicle over approximately 12 hours. The Burj Khalifa measures 2,717ft.

The re-assembling was complete when Ford executive chairman Bill Ford placed the pony badge on the Mustang on the 112th floor.

It’s a city full of tall buildings, yet they are small in comparison to the Burj Khalifa which was graced with a Ford Mustang

 

Ford executive chairman Bill Ford with the Ford Mustang at the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, in Dubai

 

The yellow Mustang glimmers in the Dubai sunlight atop the Burj Khalifa skyscraper

 

How the Burj Khalifa stands head and shoulders above other giant structures

 

At the ceremony in Dubai Mr Ford recalled how, in 1965, the company had placed a 1965 Mustang Convertible atop what was then the world’s tallest building - the Empire State Building in New York.

Building on the Burj Khalifa - which includes a hotel, the world’s highest nightclub, restaurants and office space - started in September 2004.

It was designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, the same architecture firm behind the Willis Tower in Chicago and the new One World Trade Center in New York.

After delays the building, surrounded by 27 acres of landscaped gardens, opened on January 4 2010.