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Ever wonder where all that money you pay for gas goes? Well, $5,000,000,000 of it has been accounted for and, no, it hasn’t gone to making the world a better place. It’s gone to one man’s collection of 7,000 high performance cars. That’s not a typo, that’s nine zeros. Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei is the proud collector of what is undeniably the world’s most unique and gargantuan car collection. Where do you keep 7000 of the world’s rarest cars? Well, he doesn’t have a 7000 door garage, instead he stores most of them in five ultra-secret aircraft hangars, featuring a team of specialists from different car manufacturers to keep the cars happy. By now you’re probably wondering what is in his lavish collection and, well, the statistics are quite staggering. According to the Daily Mirror, as of June 30th 2010, The wealthy sultan is a proud owner of 604 Rolls Royces, 574 Mercedes-Benzes, 452 Ferraris, 382 Bentleys, 209 BMWs, 179 Jaguars, 134 Koenigseggs, 21 Lamborghinis, 11 Aston Martins, and 1 SSC. Hit the jump for more some more staggering information on this one man’s car collection. To put this whole thing into perspective, 10 of those 11 Aston Martins are the super-rare One-77. In case the obvious isn’t obvious enough, there were only 77 of those supercars made. Wait, it gets better: Koenigsegg puts out a limited 20 cars a year and Mr. Bolkiah has 134 of them. If that’s not enough to tickle your fancy he also has an array of super-rare one-off cars that really makes his collection stand apart. These one-offs include two, rare, operational, Ferrari Mythos concepts, a modified Jaguar XJ220 designed by Pininfarina himself, a Bentley Java, and a Bentley Dominator 4x4. He is also the owner of the only Cicero BDB Maestro ever built. Other cars include the only right hand drive Mercedes CLKGTR, built just for him, the only Porsche Carma, and the only Koenigsegg Agera CC GT. It makes you wonder, why would all these car manufacturers provide such rare, expensive, cars to a man who lets them sit in an aircraft hangar?
18 comments: World’s Ultimate Car Collection - 7000 strong Wow! I guess its collection is higher than the Guinness World record holder the LeMay Museum. What’s really interesting here is , how the vehicle was collected. Its really unbelievable on how this vehicle was gathered in the museum.
 The good thing about the museum was that, it shows on how the rich history of the car and it let us appreciate the ancestors of the modern vehicle!
 I bet he got all the precious collections. The sultan must put up a museum so that his constituents would be proud of seeing it.
 Alex12de; thank you for the clarification. Maybe, the Sultan should audit again the total number  and we’ll be surprised on the actual confirmation.
 $5,000,000,000?? God, that’s a lot of money. I guess that money will do help to decrease the poverty that the world is suffering now. And damn, millionaire just spend that billion dollars to luxury!
 Of course, if you are a Sultan, you’ve got plenty of $ hehe. But awesome collection, what a fantastic hobby he has.
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02.23.2012 @ 01:29