Sultan Of Brunei Cars
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This is only few and I really mean few of the thousands of luxury cars he has....
The Sultan Of Brunei's stable of cars includes:
350 Rolls Royce cars
8 MacLaren F 1
6 Dauer 962 LMs
Numerous Ferraris, Mercedes, Jaguars, Porsche, Bentlys.
2 Boeings, An Airbus, 6 smaller planes, 2 Helicopters.
5,000 Premium cars
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he has loads of custom made cars. gotta love how Ferrari specially made estates and sedans out of a 456 for him.
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Cool! to house them??
juz wondering what is his world wealth ranking.... jiak ba then go oil rig dig some oil up -
When he took over the throne...he is worth 40 billion. but over the years...lots of spending and scandals...he is just worth...9 billion now. And he has a number of humangous garage to hold the cars. it is said...if the car is parked at the end of the garage...it will take abt half an hour for the car to be out.Originally posted by Diesel_Dimension: Cool! to house them??
juz wondering what is his world wealth ranking.... jiak ba then go oil rig dig some oil up 
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A bit enlarged. For better reading.
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Despite his wealth, Hassanal Bolkiah Muizzaddin Waddaulah, Sultan and Prime Minister of Brunei since 1967 is surrounded by gloom. From his father he inherited a personal fortune estimated at $40 billion, which once placed him at the top of Fortune magazine's list of the world's richest people. Recent reports, however, suggest that his treasure has dwindled to a mere $10 billion-peanuts, these days.
The question is: where in earth can it all have gone? It's not so easy to blow $30 billion, which is roughly equivalent to the entire annual income of all 125 million people living in Bangladesh.
Well, a sizeable chunk of it went on the Sultan's palace, monstrosity that boasts 1,788 rooms and is larger than the Vatican-in a tiny country with just 300,000 inhabitants. When the Sultan's daughter turned 18 he bought her an Airbus. For himself he prefers his own jumbo jet, originally designed to carry over 400 people.
Great skill in extravagance has also been acquired by his brother, Prince Jefri. Having heard of Disneyland, he decided to build the Jerudong Park Playground in the capital, Bandar-Seri Begawan, at a cost of $1 billion.
Between them, the brothers Bolkiah own London's Dorchester Hotel, the New York Palace and the Plaza Athenee in Paris. After the Sultanate's independence from Britain in 1984 they bought 2,000 luxury limousines and became the world's biggest customers for Rolls Royce motor cars.
But their combined spending talents, have proved unequal to the task of disposing of the revenues that constantly flow into their private bank accounts from Shell Oil, which is responsible for extracting the Sultanate's vast but only natural resource.
So a small army of hangers-on was assembled, among them one Mohamed al Fayed. The Sultan and his brothers have long been suspected of bankrolling Fayed's subsequent purchase of the upmarket Harrods store in London. Fayed- at the centre of recent bribery scandals in the British Parliament, as well as the father of the boyfriend who died with Princess Diana-claims that during the financial crisis of 1992 the British Government approached him personally to intercede with the Sultan to keep his billions in London.
Such large sums of cash automatically attract political interest. In 1987 it was reported that when US colonel Oliver North asked the Sultanate for help in subverting the Nicaraguan Government-$10 million was duly deposited in a Swiss bank account.
Britain, in keeping with its role as the major arms supplier to the region-Brunei is an enclave in Malaysian territory on the island of Borneo, most of which is Indonesian - concluded an arms deal with the Sultan in 1991 valued at $150 million. Few people can have suspected the presence of British Gurkha (Nepalese) troops in Brunei until they emerged to join the peace-making forces in East Timor.
Even this, however, would have made only a small dent in the Sultan's wealth had it not been for straightforward financial incompetence, a prolonged fall in the price of oil, and the Asian crash of 1997. Large sums of money were lost on property deals and attempts to prop up the currencies of neighbouring countries.
So the Sultan has had to slaughter some of his polo ponies and sell off other prized trophies, such as Embankment Place in London, valued at $376 million and home to accountants Pricewaterhouse-Coopers. Last autumn, 200 British accountants from Arthur Anderson went through the books in search of what was left, as billions disappeared from the Sultan's portfolios with bankers Morgan Grenfell, JP Morgan, Citibank and Nomura. The annual $1 billion spent on running Brunei's 'Shellfare State' is now thought to be at risk, along with the polo ponies.
Though the people of Brunei are far from poverty-stricken, they have not been allowed to vote since a failed uprising in 1962. Six political prisoners incarcerated then were finally released in 1991.
Brunei is another of the stains the oil business makes wherever it goes-in the Arabian Gulf, Nigeria, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Burma, the Caspian Sea and, arguably, Britain as well. The grotesque extravagance and greed it engenders, and the political methods used to control its production, invariably provoke widespread chaos. In this ugly pantomime the Sultan and his brother have taken prominent roles as the world's most spendthrift individuals.
WoW Wt..... i always thought bill gates had the luxuriest......
and i bet her daughter had becomed the most "desired" in the world -
Dauer Porsche 962 LM
Cizeta Moroder V16T
Jaguar XJR-15
Convertible Ferrari 456GT
Estate version of the 456GT
Bentley Java
Ferrari FX
300SL replica
Aston Martin AM3
Bentley Dominator -
whoa that is fucking awesome!
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At first I only thought he has about 40 or maybe 100 at most cars. Little did i realise that...well..ermm...u know what i mean.
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WoOHOO...not 3 ...not 4 BUT a FIVE STAR general...
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He is making a record for most number of special cars own
But his wife oso making a record. For the most number of shoes. lolz -
sultan of a country...he practically owns every car in the land.
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How many pairs ?Originally posted by drumstick:He is making a record for most number of special cars own
But his wife oso making a record. For the most number of shoes. lolz -
waste of money, all those money use to buy cars can b used for other better purpose like donating to the charity. wonder how will they live like when their natural resourses deplicts?
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Whoa. Nice cars indeed.
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As much as he spends, he has donated to charity as par with that amount. In Brunei anyway there is only few charitable organization. The citizens are freaking pampered. Air con homes. No taxes. Free schools. Free medical fees. No taxes on cars. The civil servants are highly paid. Their minimum salary is the highest in Asia. Abt 60% of the citizens are civil servants.Originally posted by RaTtY8l:waste of money, all those money use to buy cars can b used for other better purpose like donating to the charity. wonder how will they live like when their natural resourses deplicts?
At least as rich as his country is, he shares it with his citizens. Go figure. -
Nathan got hw many cars?
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the sultan dun have any shame!
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wonder what happens when the oil runs out ..... -
its ok to be shameless if you got that amount of money.Originally posted by monoslayer:the sultan dun have any shame! 
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by the time oso not his business liao cos it wun happen in the near future..Originally posted by Fatum:wonder what happens when the oil runs out ..... -
they turning to tourism.... tts what i heard...Originally posted by Fatum:wonder what happens when the oil runs out .....
but u guys will go meh?? brunei only got M&M... mosque and museum...
and brings back memories of the dreaded laquin camp and mount biang.. ( army guys shld know or at least heard of it ) -
It will! according to experts analysis its reported that their oil could last 25 to 30 years (max).so,we might live to see this day....Originally posted by monoslayer:by the time oso not his business liao cos it wun happen in the near future..
Maybe he can run a car museum and help attract tourists to brunei... -
the country already has foreign reserves stored. plus all the investments worldwide. also the country itself is into agriculture. if singapore can make it without any natural resources...i believe brunei can do it too...Originally posted by Diesel_Dimension:It will! according to experts analysis its reported that their oil could last 25 to 30 years (max).so,we might live to see this day.... Maybe he can run a car museum and help attract tourists to brunei... -
Actually, there is a road tax in Brunei. I lived there once. We have to pay road tax every year. A wopping $35 per year....Originally posted by mhcampboy:As much as he spends, he has donated to charity as par with that amount. In Brunei anyway there is only few charitable organization. The citizens are freaking pampered. Air con homes. No taxes. Free schools. Free medical fees. No taxes on cars. The civil servants are highly paid. Their minimum salary is the highest in Asia. Abt 60% of the citizens are civil servants.
At least as rich as his country is, he shares it with his citizens. Go figure.