A $5,233 fire extinguisher and other accessories for your 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1

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While customizing my Corvette ZR1 on the Chevrolet “Build Your Own” website, my Firefox browser either had a disagreement with the website or someone at Chevy was trying to give me financial advice. Every time I selected the box to add a $12,870 roadside assistance package to my Corvette ZR1, it automatically unchecked it for me, as though slapping my hand for even thinking of such a luxury in this economy. What a meddling website.

The options for dealer-installed accessories on a Corvette ZR1 could have two different effects on a car buyer. They could either: a) really make someone want that $4,187 first-aid kit to brag to friends about, or b) make you seriously wonder if a $2,929 orange reflective safety triangle is worth it.

But really, the outrageously priced roadside assistance package seems to have everything you need, including “a convenient tire pressure gauge, fuse kit, multi-bit screwdriver, flashlight, pliers, rain poncho and more.”

The “and more” must be something worth an extra $12,000 -- we can only wonder at what it might be. An article in Autoblog had some interesting guesses about the overpriced car bling: “Obviously, the pliers are by Klein, the poncho is from Versace and the fuses are made of diamonds.”

For those on a budget, the customizing page also offers a $44 fire extinguisher (although maybe that’s a typo and it’s actually $4,400), but why not splurge a little for the $5,233 one? Who knows? Perhaps it puts out fires better.

Try adding your own unnecessarily expensive accessories to a Corvette ZR1 here or, as we wrote about Monday, you could just buy a Chrysler and save some trees.

-- Kelsey Ramos