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Old 04-05-2004, 12:02 PM   #39
wilhelm
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I read some years ago that the sultan had 5000 cars at that point. The article also said that due to the bad economical times in Brunei the sultans four garages (all of them the sizes of warehouses) were closed and the cars just stood there and collected dust.

Anyway 3000 of the cars were sportcars and the other 2000 were luxury cars like rolls royces and bentleys. You've already mentioned some of the cars that he owns like 6 ferrari f50 etc. He also has or had a specially made Bentley Turbo Estate with 4wd. The sultan wanted the car with those specifications because he was going to use when driving to and from polo games and the polofield can be a bit muddy, therefore the 4wd :roll: . He also has some specially made Aston Martins that costed something like 3 million dollars a piece. He also has every years winning F1 cars from at least late 80:s/early 90:s to 2000.

I can also recall him having 80 miles of private higway that went straight ahead all the way. That highway has to go through the whole country because Brunei isn't big.

Before the financial crisis he had salespeople from many carmanufactures employed full time to sell him cars. He bought something 40 Rolls Royces a year so maybe that was necessary. The salesman from Aston Martin got more money than the president of Aston Martin and a Rolex as a welcomegift.

I know more of this guy but it would be to much to write here.
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