Bosses of the Ford motor company could be forgiven for having that top-of-the-world feeling today.

They have been able to show off their new yellow-coloured Mustang model - on the 112th floor of the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

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.

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

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.

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