It's called the Albatross because that is the more accepted name for a "Double Eagle" around the world, also known as the rarest score in golf. The photos are all golfers who've hit an Albatross at a Major circa 1997? Either way it's the most insane thing ever and I'm glad it exists.
I grew up in Brunei, went to school with a couple of the royals, I got a chance to see part of the garages, they were all mental. That's only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to their opulence though
@ His kids were split into their own palaces, with a couple in each, and each palace was a ridiculous mansion in its own right. I’ve only been to mateens palace where he stayed with the siblings who were all kids of the sultans second wife. We used to get around on atvs, he had his own zoo at that palace, like giraffes, zebras the whole lot. It was wild to experience as a teenager. He also got a Ferrari laferrari week of release, and owned an Eleanor mustang. I met his cousin at a party and he was telling me how he’d just bought one of the batmobiles, then showed me the pictures of him in it in his garage. God I’ve got stories for days, let me know if you wanna hear more lmao
Btw, the story of the leak is because Prince Jefrei posted a instagram story talking about "True car guys respect the privacy of other car guys", and that story exploded and a lot of ppl started calling him out because he is gatekeeping the greatest car collection that has ever existed and started a movement to leak as many photos of the cars that they can. The photos them selfs seems to be the government inventorying the cars, since in May 2000 his assets began to be retrieved by the government. So there is at least one photo of every car he had in 2000 so many more may come out.
The Sultan of Brunei has part of his car collection close to where I live in a town called Mt. Kisco, NY. You can find it on google maps. It’s on Westwood drive in Mt. Kisco. It’s the house with two rows of trees leading up to it from the road. The garage is ginormous. He also has planes and helicopters in it as well.
@@berkayatay3957 it’s even bigger in person. I worked near it for a few months. I drove past it multiple times everyday. I learned a lot about the house and what’s inside it. I wish I could talk more about it.
If Brunei wants to open up to tourism like it says they want: build a big complex including a museum for the really special stuff. Add a nice hotel, water park etc where your kids/wife’s are fine with spending a few days. During you build this bring in professional crews for the cosmetic repairs of the cars. And then you have a perfect place where car ppl stay a few days before heading to Indonesia etc…
Would be nice but I’d guess that would only happen if the country had a revolution and the king got ousted, it’s a strict Islamic country and pretty much an absolute monarch.
As its not mentioned in the video intro, supposedly the pictures came to be when the Brunei government caught up with what Prince Jefri was doing in the early 2000s and was forcing them to sell the cars he had been buying. Whilst this mostly affected the scores of S600s, Rolls Royces etc he had bought, the family were asked to take an inventory of the "special" cars in their collection so they took the photos. They were then forwarded to high-end dealers in the UK to get a feel for any potential buyers if they were to sell any (the UK being chosen as 99% of the cars are RHD). The story goes that these photos were leaked from one of those UK dealers who received them 20+ years ago.
The EB110 is by far the coolest car in the collection IMO. The "tasteless" interior is so tastefull that it comes off tasteless. whos got the balls to go for something like that? someone with BOLD taste. I LOVE that car.
My theory on the Jeep Grand Cherokee is that someone in the Sultan's family was being driven around in one of their super expensive, super unreliable (Italian/British) cars and it broke down on the side of the road. In order to inconvenience the member of the royal family as little as possible, the driver simply got out of the broken down luxury car, flagged down the first decent car that drove by, which happened to be the Jeep Grand Cherokee, bought it from the owner, and drove the member of the royal family home. That's how a Jeep Grand Cherokee became part of the Sultan of Brunei's insane car collection. Story time is now over boys and girls.
The word albatross is sometimes used metaphorically to mean a psychological burden (most often associated with guilt or shame) that feels like a curse. I like to think they still have it around to tease whoever in the family bought it.
The Pininfarina XJ220s were originally supposed to have a unique racing derived V10 installed (as were the cancelled F50 Bolides) but ultimately were fitted with 650hp racing versions of the V6 mated to the Prodrive transmissions. I was fortunate enough to speak with someone who helped order the cars and they said it was an absolute monster on the road.
If I'm not mistaken the Australian Suburbans used a mid 90s S10 Blazer dashboard that was stretched and it did have the heating controls on the right hand side
He also got a weird version of a BMW Nazca M12 apparently. Under the folder "miscellaneous" there is the "AA Unknown Exotic Car". It's defenitly a Nazca or at least Nazca inspired car.
Bentley also had to put the label on it beacuase these were equiped with a Sultan exclusive Cosworth twin-turbo Verion of the 6.75 V8 producing over 500hp (in the early 90s!) btw. the Brunei commission of Continental Convertibles helped Bentley to produce the Azure
I was about to type out a comment about how these guys should do more videos of them sitting down and gawking over cars, and then I remembered, that’s just the podcast
The Mythos in Monaco is the original one. It was sold to a Japanese collector. The Royal Family in Brunei has 3 Mythos, a red one, a blue one and a purple one
lol. they prayed for help and it came in the shape of the sultan of brunai. -yes, certainly we can put the pictures out of your golf magazine on your dashboard, sir.
Albatross is a golf term that refers to a score of three strokes under par on a single hole. It is also known as a “double eagle.” In golf scoring, it's like the ultimate Golf score! 😂
One of my favorites is Bentley Continental R Supershort which is literally just a Continental R but just 4 inches shorter. I can just imaging being a few years into buying 3 cars a day and just thinking, “well I guess we could just make this one shorter” 🤣
The sultans of Brunei kind of customers are the reasons why manufacturers refuse to discount 5-10% off MSRP to people like me who think that “THEY” are at the end of the month and can’t wait to sell another car “below MSPR or invoice”…
Prince Jefri owned a Gold Coast mansion called Sunninghill (same neighborhood as the one the Russians own iirc) that was tied up in his court proceedings for a while, listed last year for 7.5 million with no mention of its colorful past in the ad. Be cool if some of the custom commissioned cars came with the house.
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Kennan is the type of guy who spends Christmas with his m5 talking about another m5
I bet he would consider that cheating so no way
Kennan is the type of guy to cheat on his M5 with a lower mileage M5
Really? Repeating this same stupid meme? How pathetic. Grow up. You are neither relevant nor humorous.
@@M67v Really? Repeating this same stupid meme? How pathetic. Grow up. You are neither relevant nor humorous.
😂😂
It's called the Albatross because that is the more accepted name for a "Double Eagle" around the world, also known as the rarest score in golf. The photos are all golfers who've hit an Albatross at a Major circa 1997? Either way it's the most insane thing ever and I'm glad it exists.
I hope Doug gets to visit the collection one day
THIS is the BRUNEI car collection. But first a word from cars and bids
Doug the type of guy to open a bag of chips with scissors
Really? Repeating this same stupid meme? How pathetic. Grow up. You are neither relevant nor humorous.
It's the best way to do it
The types of comments are so fucking stale
I grew up in Brunei, went to school with a couple of the royals, I got a chance to see part of the garages, they were all mental. That's only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to their opulence though
Any other cool stories?😅
@ His kids were split into their own palaces, with a couple in each, and each palace was a ridiculous mansion in its own right. I’ve only been to mateens palace where he stayed with the siblings who were all kids of the sultans second wife. We used to get around on atvs, he had his own zoo at that palace, like giraffes, zebras the whole lot. It was wild to experience as a teenager. He also got a Ferrari laferrari week of release, and owned an Eleanor mustang.
I met his cousin at a party and he was telling me how he’d just bought one of the batmobiles, then showed me the pictures of him in it in his garage.
God I’ve got stories for days, let me know if you wanna hear more lmao
@@shaondeb9448please keep going lol
@@shaondeb9448 more!!!!
@@shaondeb9448i am another person but i want to hear more stories please 👂🏽🎧
Btw, the story of the leak is because Prince Jefrei posted a instagram story talking about "True car guys respect the privacy of other car guys", and that story exploded and a lot of ppl started calling him out because he is gatekeeping the greatest car collection that has ever existed and started a movement to leak as many photos of the cars that they can. The photos them selfs seems to be the government inventorying the cars, since in May 2000 his assets began to be retrieved by the government. So there is at least one photo of every car he had in 2000 so many more may come out.
The government are taking the cars away?
The Bugatti with the crazy colours is referencing the colours of fashion house Benetton.
It's still hideous though.
YES! The video we asked! Thank you! 👏🏻
U r welcome
The Sultan of Brunei has part of his car collection close to where I live in a town called Mt. Kisco, NY. You can find it on google maps. It’s on Westwood drive in Mt. Kisco. It’s the house with two rows of trees leading up to it from the road. The garage is ginormous. He also has planes and helicopters in it as well.
Is it 115 Westwood dr? Just looked it up google maps the gate is absolutely gorgeous.
Holy shit I just looked it up. That place looks huge.
@@Mr47J7 I don’t know the number
If you click "See more dates" you can go back to Sep. 2013 and actually see it being built. Crazy!
@@berkayatay3957 it’s even bigger in person. I worked near it for a few months. I drove past it multiple times everyday. I learned a lot about the house and what’s inside it. I wish I could talk more about it.
Doug the type of guy to finally remove the echo in post
I think what's really impressive about this collection is having the imagination to come up with 3 of those specs a day for 10 years
Sultan man should buy Nissan
Doug is the kind of guy to dedicate an hour of his life every single day thinking about the cars of Brunei.
Really? Repeating this same stupid meme? How pathetic. Grow up. You are neither relevant nor humorous.
If Brunei wants to open up to tourism like it says they want: build a big complex including a museum for the really special stuff. Add a nice hotel, water park etc where your kids/wife’s are fine with spending a few days. During you build this bring in professional crews for the cosmetic repairs of the cars. And then you have a perfect place where car ppl stay a few days before heading to Indonesia etc…
Would be nice but I’d guess that would only happen if the country had a revolution and the king got ousted, it’s a strict Islamic country and pretty much an absolute monarch.
why would they do that, they have infinite cash
Did the Sultan ALSO not have rich parents like Doug???😜😄
😅😅😅😅😂
They weren't rich but were able to afford to full ride pay for his Sulton school
As its not mentioned in the video intro, supposedly the pictures came to be when the Brunei government caught up with what Prince Jefri was doing in the early 2000s and was forcing them to sell the cars he had been buying. Whilst this mostly affected the scores of S600s, Rolls Royces etc he had bought, the family were asked to take an inventory of the "special" cars in their collection so they took the photos. They were then forwarded to high-end dealers in the UK to get a feel for any potential buyers if they were to sell any (the UK being chosen as 99% of the cars are RHD). The story goes that these photos were leaked from one of those UK dealers who received them 20+ years ago.
We need a series on this!!!
Ready for part 2 already
If the Sultan ever does decide to sell them, he'll be able to on Cars & Bids
Yesss! Thank you C&B!
This should have been a 2 hour podcast TBH.
The mythos was in Test drive 3 😂😂
News for you. Brunei has a car museum on the sultans property you can visit, in Jerudong
Go see whats there
Camo fender flares? Early sequoia trd pro reference?
BMW: Brunei Motor Works
19:12 doug how do you not know about the vantage from that era…
Yeah I was thinking that
Do Assad's car collection next
Other than the F50 and Mercedes 600 Grosser there's really nothing interesting
I said the same thing. Could've covered it briefly here.
Its nothing. He certainly didnt spend his money on cars.
Do you thing there is maybe some secret cars they own that we dont know they even exist or these are 100% all of known collection?
Gotta love 30 minutes of praising two dudes charged with human trafficking and sex crimes along with other horrific things
Agreed
Would LOVE a part 2 to this video!!
This video should've been longer.
This is the video I didn’t know I needed to watch, I love that someone made these cars happen.
Lovely topic! Thanks
Is this google drive open to anyone to look at? I would enjoy looking through this for hours
I hate to be living and losing my home in Brunei while their Royal Family spends it's country's money on expensive cars and not caring about anything.
It would be awesome to get someone on a podcast from any of these companies that were there when this was going on. Bet they have some stories.
The EB110 is by far the coolest car in the collection IMO. The "tasteless" interior is so tastefull that it comes off tasteless. whos got the balls to go for something like that? someone with BOLD taste. I LOVE that car.
19:12 yes there was. That's 2 door version of the vantage from that era
Best video ever please do moooore
Finally !
The world need more Nick.
More Brunei episodes please!
My theory on the Jeep Grand Cherokee is that someone in the Sultan's family was being driven around in one of their super expensive, super unreliable (Italian/British) cars and it broke down on the side of the road. In order to inconvenience the member of the royal family as little as possible, the driver simply got out of the broken down luxury car, flagged down the first decent car that drove by, which happened to be the Jeep Grand Cherokee, bought it from the owner, and drove the member of the royal family home. That's how a Jeep Grand Cherokee became part of the Sultan of Brunei's insane car collection. Story time is now over boys and girls.
We need more on this
The word albatross is sometimes used metaphorically to mean a psychological burden (most often associated with guilt or shame) that feels like a curse. I like to think they still have it around to tease whoever in the family bought it.
19:19 The 90s Vantages had that front end
The Pininfarina XJ220s were originally supposed to have a unique racing derived V10 installed (as were the cancelled F50 Bolides) but ultimately were fitted with 650hp racing versions of the V6 mated to the Prodrive transmissions. I was fortunate enough to speak with someone who helped order the cars and they said it was an absolute monster on the road.
If a regular person got invited to view the collection, they'd most likely be cautious.
If Doug got invited, hed be like "ABOUT TIME FINALLY" 😂
its a shame, the sultans collection could have been so much bigger if his parents had co-signed on loans for him.
The episode we all wanted
You should rate Assads garage next
I love how they got over like 10 cars and 4 car brands out of hundreds of cars
The Sultan and his brother were living examples of "why not".
You guys need to get with your boy Nick for beard trimming advice immediately upon wrapping this video up boys.
I propose a thought experiment: Imagine you had the chance to commission a unique, one-of-a-kind car from that era. What would it be?
That XJ220 is my favourite of this entire collection 🔥
the sultan of BrownEye
I wish we as the car community could come together to preserve this insane collection!
If I'm not mistaken the Australian Suburbans used a mid 90s S10 Blazer dashboard that was stretched and it did have the heating controls on the right hand side
Yessssss!!!!! This will be incredible
That red rounded Lagonda has the outer mid-body look of the 3rd gen Taurus
Doug will surely one day own a Brunai Car. I look forward to him achieving his destiny.
He also got a weird version of a BMW Nazca M12 apparently. Under the folder "miscellaneous" there is the "AA Unknown Exotic Car". It's defenitly a Nazca or at least Nazca inspired car.
I think Doug actually went to Bruni with a 15-year-old camera, this is all HIS ploy before the collection is no reserve on C&B
Bentley also had to put the label on it beacuase these were equiped with a Sultan exclusive Cosworth twin-turbo Verion of the 6.75 V8 producing over 500hp (in the early 90s!) btw. the Brunei commission of Continental Convertibles helped Bentley to produce the Azure
I was about to type out a comment about how these guys should do more videos of them sitting down and gawking over cars, and then I remembered, that’s just the podcast
at the Bently Albatross I literally said out loud "whaaat?" in sync with Nick.
Doug is the type of guy to take a family vacation in Brunei
Really? Repeating this same stupid meme? How pathetic. Grow up. You are neither relevant nor humorous.
Doug and Kennan come off like little kids who just learned the word “heinous” so they just use it all the time
Funniest video I’ve seen in a long time! Great job!!!
The Grand Cherokee is what the SUV thing started in Europe, before that only hand full range rover owners
The Mythos in Monaco is the original one. It was sold to a Japanese collector. The Royal Family in Brunei has 3 Mythos, a red one, a blue one and a purple one
Sultan had a LM002 state built for him. These photos were just one of the garages and a lot of cars are not included in the leak.
The statutes of limitations may not have passed in Brunei
wimbledon baby
19:29 well the friend didn’t know that car looks like it was taking off a V8 vantage from 1977
Agreed re xj220, reminds me of an nsx
An albatross, also known as a double eagle, is a golf term that refers to a score of three under par on a single hole.
I thought Doug would’ve been into the Mythos, it’s design reminds me of a Diablo with the old NSX rear end
Want a Harlequin Bugatti EB110 …Paint it like the Golf …Make the inside Harlequin too 🌈
The burban. With that cammo.
These cars were Pimp My Ride Sultan of Brunei edition.
Albatross is also a golf term for being 3 under par.
lol. they prayed for help and it came in the shape of the sultan of brunai. -yes, certainly we can put the pictures out of your golf magazine on your dashboard, sir.
That newer lagonda looks like it was based on the vantage of the period
Albatross is a golf term that refers to a score of three strokes under par on a single hole. It is also known as a “double eagle.” In golf scoring, it's like the ultimate Golf score! 😂
I thought the EB 110 was the worst until i saw the albatross... wow
One of my favorites is Bentley Continental R Supershort which is literally just a Continental R but just 4 inches shorter. I can just imaging being a few years into buying 3 cars a day and just thinking, “well I guess we could just make this one shorter” 🤣
I saw a photo of someone spotting a grey/silver 456 wagon in San Francisco
The sultans of Brunei kind of customers are the reasons why manufacturers refuse to discount 5-10% off MSRP to people like me who think that “THEY” are at the end of the month and can’t wait to sell another car “below MSPR or invoice”…
You should’ve shown Kennan the f50’s with radios and power windows
Are there any daytime pictures of the cars? And are there any modern hypercars in the collection?
The greatest example of money does not buy taste
You should make a video where you rate Assad's car collection.
The dominator is arguably better looking than a bentayaga
Not only was the night vision Ferrari matte, it was ANTI RADAR. That was expensive back then.
13:40 2002 Ford thunderbird Bentley
Prince Jefri owned a Gold Coast mansion called Sunninghill (same neighborhood as the one the Russians own iirc) that was tied up in his court proceedings for a while, listed last year for 7.5 million with no mention of its colorful past in the ad. Be cool if some of the custom commissioned cars came with the house.
The best car collection in the world outside of Jay Lenos one.
Imagine a Doug DeMuro interior Bentley Albatross
We need a Nick "Yyyikes" tshirt