The Sultan Of Brunei's Car List

[Green X]

Originally Posted by mrbaxr6t

all that wealth sitting in a tin box if you are that wealthy you can afford to wipe with $100 bills then heres an idea help fellow man instead of being a selfish ****, the majority of us will be lucky to own one exotic car in our lifetimes, this guy has more exotics than the entire of Australia. Makes me sad I'm afraid Bull or not thats a ridiculous amount of motor vehicles

Doesn't he, i thought the people in His country are well looked after and pay next to 0 tax have Theme parks built for em, then again i know sweet FA about him so not going to comment, perhaps his is a ****, but if he looks after his country and the people who live in it well he's doing a better job than just about the rest of the world's governments!

[Spudz27]

I have heard places like Dubai and that have no tax the oil pays for everything. This from someone who worked there. Also if that list is true (which I am skeptical about) where are they all kept, and even when you have more money that most countries, why would you have 9 of the same vehicle?

[Falcon Coupe]

Originally Posted by mrbaxr6t

all that wealth sitting in a tin box if you are that wealthy you can afford to wipe with $100 bills then heres an idea help fellow man instead of being a selfish ****, the majority of us will be lucky to own one exotic car in our lifetimes, this guy has more exotics than the entire of Australia. Makes me sad I'm afraid Bull or not thats a ridiculous amount of motor vehicles

Agreed, i hazard a guess he has never driven most.

Excess that is plain embarrassing.

[XR6_661]

Whats the point? Never get to drive them all.

[OLDFORDNUT]

i know he used to race some pretty exotic cars in the desert,quite a few of his machines were done up into desert racers including a 4x4 rolls royce, well known for buying a car for each of his friends and wives in the 80's and 90's

[b2tf]

I dare say that that list includes cars that may be government vehicles or registered to his company/however he has set it up etc. There's no way he would buy over a dozen Corollas just to have in a collection. A lot of the Mercs etc are probably used to cart his diplomats/staff etc round in.

[GTpilot]

MIT SIGMA BL3178 F17A0000009,
WHAT.......... He has a SIGMA ???

I agree with above, I would not be suprised if that list contains staff cars etc as well. Probably find many of them are daily driven "company cars"

I heard sometime ago, apparently he had a White SV5000. The only one evermade, was specially done for him. Fact, Fiction, Who knows. Good luck to him I say, I can only dream to have that much $$$ and be able to buy a fraction of the cars he has to sit around, Including a Sigma

[XR6_190]

I think that you will find that the first list would be a good 10 or so years old, there aren't any cars from this decade.

I also would suspect that whilst he owns them, a lot of them might be used by staff, like buses and the forklift.

As for worrying about other people rising to defeat him in a coup, I doubt that this will be much of a concern, as he does look after his people very well, as well as no tax, the locals enjoy free medical for life and a raft of other advantages, but you can only live there if you are a practising Muslim.

I must say good on him really, at least he is using his money on things he enjoys, rather than saving it his whole life and dying unhappy. No I probably will never get anyhting like any of the exotics he has, but that is hardly his fault.

[Whitey-AMG]

I wanna see him wash them all on a Sunday morning...........

Hello mr Tyrepower.........can I bring my cars in for a wheel alignment and tyre rotation..............sheeeeeesh............what an embarrasing load of hedonistic excess...........He probably has a full time person in charge of finding the keys for the car he feels like taking for a drive............ :

[Sloth]

Originally Posted by aussiblue

This guys trying to get a gallery with pictures of all the sultan's cars and he has lots so far:
http://www.supercars.net/gallery/129612/976/1.html

This picture got me excited for a sec before realising it would be on a visit to Australia.

[SSVPom]

Go the Ford Granada and Transit Luton !!

(Poms will understand....)

[vanman_75]

Originally Posted by mrbaxr6t

all that wealth sitting in a tin box if you are that wealthy you can afford to wipe with $100 bills then heres an idea help fellow man instead of being a selfish ****, the majority of us will be lucky to own one exotic car in our lifetimes, this guy has more exotics than the entire of Australia. Makes me sad I'm afraid Bull or not thats a ridiculous amount of motor vehicles

yep would not give a cent to homeless or troubled people ,cool collection pity its from robbing people blind .

[MITCHAY]

Jeeze I thought one BMW was a big enough extension :

[GOSSXB]

Poor bastard doesn't know how good it feels to ride in an aussie musle car though!

[SpoolMan]

2950 cars and bikes on that list, if he drove 1 day it would take over 8 years to drive or ride them all.

[Thornie]

Originally Posted by EDfutura25

I have heard places like Dubai and that have no tax the oil pays for everything. This from someone who worked there. Also if that list is true (which I am skeptical about) where are they all kept, and even when you have more money that most countries, why would you have 9 of the same vehicle?

i've heard the same thing about the dubai no tax thing, from an old work mate whos brother lives there.

[rob_liss_lms10]

Originally Posted by vanman_75

yep would not give a cent to homeless or troubled people ,cool collection pity its from robbing people blind .

I think you will find yourself quite wrong there, possibly an assumption that a person with that much money has got it from keeping it from others. In fact he is far from that, extremly generous, polite and quite humble. As others have said, 0% tax, free medical etc. I doudt that there would be a single homeless person in the country. Also you can live and work in the country without being a muslim. I know this because my uncle worked for him as a personal pilot, also he is a relative through marriage.

[Pedro]

Originally Posted by rob_liss_lms10

I think you will find yourself quite wrong there, possibly an assumption that a person with that much money has got it from keeping it from others. In fact he is far from that, extremly generous, polite and quite humble. As others have said, 0% tax, free medical etc. I doudt that there would be a single homeless person in the country. Also you can live and work in the country without being a muslim. I know this because my uncle worked for him as a personal pilot, also he is a relative through marriage.

That's right, he has looked after the indigenous population. There is no poverty in Brunei. The oil income is humungus and he indulges his eccentric passion.

In an earlier post someone questioned having multiples of the same model ... he used to have a standing order with Rolls Royce (and other manufactureres) to take delivery of every colour of every new model as it came on line.

[XR6_190]

Originally Posted by Pedro

In an earlier post someone questioned having multiples of the same model ... he used to have a standing order with Rolls Royce (and other manufactureres) to take delivery of every colour of every new model as it came on line.

That could get expensive with the new Phantom Coupe, apparently you can have it in your choice of any of about 4500 shades, so that is a lot of Rolls Royces.

[Geez Louise]

What about the car made out of Silver for the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi. That was just ridiculous!! They live in these massive houses and live extravegant lifestyles and all I want to know is.... How do I meet a Sheikh?? :

[XR6_190]

Originally Posted by XR6_190

That could get expensive with the new Phantom Coupe, apparently you can have it in your choice of any of about 4500 shades, so that is a lot of Rolls Royces.

Excuse me, I meant 44,000 different colours

[vanman_75]

Originally Posted by rob_liss_lms10

I think you will find yourself quite wrong there, possibly an assumption that a person with that much money has got it from keeping it from others. In fact he is far from that, extremly generous, polite and quite humble. As others have said, 0% tax, free medical etc. I doudt that there would be a single homeless person in the country. Also you can live and work in the country without being a muslim. I know this because my uncle worked for him as a personal pilot, also he is a relative through marriage.

was not a personal thing rich take from poor ,always have always will .his country may be in top form but the worlds far from it .billionaires everywhere but many more broke .still love some of his cars but

[azaxr8]

Originally Posted by Nikked

Its a shame really, just a greedy cashed up oil baron. So many nice cars kept from the publics eye, i mean 9 McLaren F1's.

Greedy? oil baron?

Good on him for getting where he is. I don't think his more greedy then anyone else. Just has more money then the average joe. alot more.

[aussiblue]

Actually a few (23 it seems) Aussie's have died keeping him and his family in power. See for example http://www.vrb.gov.au/dvapublication...rneo-64-67.pdf and [url] and http://users.qld.chariot.net.au/~dia...frontation.htm and http://www.worldsocialism.org/articl...change_for.php and http://www.australiansatwar.gov.au/s...?war=MI&id=227

In this same year, 1963, an aggressive Indonesia was lured by the lucrative oil in Northern Borneo. A secret war was fought when British and Australian interests in oil-soaked Brunei insisted that this area of land be incorporated into Malaysia. SAS units from Britain and Australia, and the 3rd Australian Regiment, made damaging and deadly incursions into Indonesian territory (Kalimantan) during this undeclared and clandestine war. Plans were made in 1964 to bomb Jakarta. This information was made available only recently, under the 30-year secret-file rule.

This conflict ended abruptly about 1965, as though an undercover political deal had been struck between the parties involved. Indonesian army officers were suddenly being trained in Australia for jungle warfare, and in the same year up to 700,000 Indonesians were massacred by their army for dissent. It was alter revealed that US Intelligence was also implicated in this slaughter.

- the secret war in Borneo where we helped the Brits keep Indonesia invading Brunei, Sabah. I could be cynical suspect is was really about oil and keeping Shell supplies flowing to the UK.

[Antwon]

I dont understand why he has 13 Commodores/Calais/Berlinas and not 1 Falcon?

It's not that stupid having that many cars if you have money, plus alot of them are unique so if he sold them he would probably get more back.

[mik]

apparently education is also free, if you believe what the magazines say the sultan inherited 40 billion from his father of which there is 10 billion left, having all those cars is probably a means of creating employment, it must be a huge staff to look after them and make sure they are serviced ,cleaned and secure etc.

[FPV 5TH]

[QUOTE=Antwon]I dont understand why he has 13 Commodores/Calais/Berlinas and not 1 Falcon?

He has to have something to laugh at

[axeray]

It's a nice list of cars. If I had as much coin as he does I'd probably collect a few uniques myself. I'd atleast have a ford in there before I got a holden.

I heard education is free as well.

[aussiblue]

See http://web.archive.org/web/200607061...k/geos/bx.html
only 400 km of paved roads; now if you put all his cars end to end would there be any paved road left?

[aussiblue]

He might be a very benevolent dictator but at the end of the day there are no elections in his country so despite the free medical, no taxes and free education he can't claim his people are free. And as we have seen in other parts of the world it's easy to be benevolent when there's lots of foreign oil money but if this were to dry up what would happen then?