Famous Car Collectors

Lot of people use to have an hobby. Somebody loves to marathon running, bird watching or collect magazine. But some wealthy famous people decide to collect cars: they love cars and they want to have in their private garage something that can remember them the past years, or that can make them special because they are the only owner of this model. Having a look on the net, you can find lot of famous people collecting cars, but three of them are the top ones.

The 1930 Mercedes

Ralph Lauren:

The famous american stylist is obviously interested in fashion, especially in clothes, but probably not lot of people know that he is, for instance, also one of the biggest car collector around the world. He is the owner of a Bugatti Veyron, the fastest and the most expensive car in the world today. But the things that make his collection very special are the other automobile he is preserving in his garage: the 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa (now evaluated around 16.000.000$) and his 1930 Mercedes, and many others.

Hassanal Bolkiah:

A taste of Sultan of Brunei's Ferrari

Probably this name don't tell you a lot about this man. He is the Sultan of Brunei, and he his one of the collectors with the largest number of cars: around 7.000! People said that all his cars together probably are worth more than 5.000.000.000 $. He has all the models of Ferrari, Porsche, Bugatti and of the other luxury brands. The question could be: where does he keep all his cars? In the picture below we can have a satellite view from google maps.

This garage equal to eight hangar

Jay Kay:

He is a musician, and the lead singer of Jamiroquai. When people ask him which are the cars he loves, he always answers in the same way: any fast car! This is why he started to collect more than 40 exotic cars, such as Ferrari 550 Maranello, Lamborghini Miura SV and modified Fiat 500 Abarth. But the most important piece of his collection is an Aston Martin DB5 made famous in early James Bond films.

Just a curiosity: he has the habit of getting caught speeding in his vehicles. His  driving licence had been suspended more than one time.

Jay Kay with some of his cars