He has enough cars that he could say to tourists as they arrive at the airport "All the Porsches out out at the moment, but here's a Merc to drive around while you are here".
Forget a valuation, this is the only collection that would create a flux in the global exotic car market if it was ever sold off. Just think about Enzo values when another 65 enter the market at once.
From Brunei myself, there are many cars that we still don't know. Many gifted to friends, many passed down. The entire royal family also has many other cars, especially 1st and 2nd cousins.
What do you think of the government? This all seems completely batshit as an outsider. What’s it like? Can the government just take things from people on a whim?
@@tots4 from the outside it may seem like batshit but in reality for us Bruneians I think we're pretty lucky as we're well taken care for from our medical, education and etc as most of them are given to us for free also our fuel prices are cheap AF as it is probably around $0.35 per liter along with we don't have any kinds of tax including income tax and etc
@@obi1kan0b14 that all seems pretty great, but is there any industry other than oil? What’s stopping you from ending up like Nauru when the natural resource wealth runs out? None of this stuff seems like an investment in the future.
As a Bruneian myself, I can assure that all the cars are taken care of besides only a few and I've seen other magnificent cars that is not known to the public
It's not illegal to own cars, just a lot of import cost due to the local dealers not bringing in high spec cars and not a lot of manufacturers make right hand drive cars. The princes also drives around Pagani Huayras and Laferrari's to work or events lol
@@youneszreika specific cars like rr. Many supercars are also very hard to import (there are no lambo,ferrari... dealers). If you have connections and run a big business then itll be easier. It is even harder if you're not a local (i.e. a native). Holding Bruneian passport but having 'Chinese' blood won't do you any good either.
@@danielcrane1682 Well there's the actual Australian made cars, some of which ended up in the US as Pontiacs and so forth. I'm talking about cars like Porsche and Ferrari that released their best cars only in left hand drive.
@@shermanator87 yea the sad part is tho many of the cars have been converted back to left hand drive as there starting to make there way to ferrari collectors that dont care about there history funny enough im pretty shure theres a white f40 that belonged to the sultan that was in Australia for a bit before bring sold to tokyo i beleve but not shure because i really dont remember it accurately enough to say forshure it is on vinwiki tho. And it still has its 512tr intirior and is lhd verry cool there is prety detailed photos of it since its now out of the collection
Mark my words, a close friend outfitted this guys 747 private jet with interiors, furnishings, plates, solid gold flatware…you name it. This was in the late 90’s. They deliver the jet after it’s finished on a private island of his, and he isn’t there isn’t on the runway. An hour late, the Sultan rolls up on a Harley wearing cut off jean shorts and a dirty t-shirt that says “I’m the boss” on it. He loved the finish out on the 747, said thank you, then blasted off up the trail on his Harley leaving all who worked years on his plane standing there in awe.
I want to hear more about this "private island" that has a 5,000ft runway long enough to land a 747. If this island existed, it would be found and popular on Google Satellite images, no?
I tried to do a drinking game with his curated content take a shot when he says a or um. Woke up in the yard almost naked.. maybe try it with beer next time???
I worked in Brunei in the mid 90’s and lived there as a child in the 70’s. I remember like it was yesterday sitting on his knee in a Ferrari 308/328 playing with the steering wheel whilst he talked to my dad. The sights I saw in the 90’s were incredible! McLaren F1’s, Ferrari F50’s, Ferrari testarossa FX to name but a few. Brilliant country, brilliant people. And the amount of cars left to rot outside was unreal!
I've never been able to find a full listing of what he owns. I doubt anyone truly knows exactly what he has. There are probably cars stashed all over the country that have been forgotten.
There was an appraiser that was called to Brunei a couple years ago, that called a portion of this collection “the reef” because they were stored outside and so badly destroyed be the elements that the only life they have left is to be pushed into the ocean and made into an artificial reef
There's also a rumour of an actual reef made up discards from a fleetwide wheel&tyre upgrade, I think for the Rolls and Bentley, but maybe it was the jags. Several hundred sets of the originals were just dumped in a big pile offshore.
I've loved the Sultan's collection since discovering it through car magazine articles. This just scratches the surface of his absolutely crazy and emence collection. Several mechanics and technicians from Ferrari, Bentley, Mercedes ect, have gone to Bruni and commented on the craziness of it. Thank you.
I was reading a magazine in the late 90''s that had an article about his collection. Its is immense. something like 8 billion worth of cars. and some modern recreations of classics, like the Merceddes Grosser and modern Gullwings.
A friend of mine worked maintaining the collection for the Sultan. Was like painting the forth bridge apparently by the time they serviced the last one in the garage they went straight back to the first one again.. Bought his whole family open around the world plane tickets when he left as a parting gift.
Glad you mentioned the Dauer 962s! That has always been my favorite and is an absolute unicorn which, to this day, hasn't shown up on social media nor TH-cam. I'd love to see someone like Doug Demuro to get his hands on one.
@@johnsonsl944 no it would not as he physically doesn't have quantities high enough to sell that many as he bought the cars but not all of them are his in fact most are owned by other members of the royal family so to sell all the cars all the members of the faimly who own them would have to agree to sell them at the same time and with a faimly so large its not going to happen lol
I love your appraisal videos, especcialy @FicarraClassic, I hurt my ribs earlier this week and you had me laughing so much that I may have injured myself even more!
Based on a trusted source from Malaysia who has personally visited several of the Sultan's garage mansions (unverified) has estimated the collection to be worth more than 800 millions. I still can't get my head around this!
A friend of mine was his butler for his London residence. Great story's he mentioned about 1000 cars at the residence. His brother prince Jeffrey gave him a gold Cartier watch when he quit
One of close friends brother is part of the personal doctors team of the Sultan and he says that the cars are kept in mint conditions a couple of huge facilities and apparently sultan and few others drive some of the vast cars quite regularly on private roads
Guy my dad knows used to be employed by the sultan to look after his cars at his home in Scotland. He’s an ex Bentley mechanic, one of the best mechanics I’ve ever met.
@@ClinicalDecisionYikesYT So come during Sultan birthday 15 July every year or keep update during royal Brunei wedding you can witness different kind of rolls Royce or open u tube about the silver jubilee of Sultan parade
been facinated by this collection for years. You guys missed one major point, that most of the cars are according to many sources online at least, owned by the Sultan's Brother, Prince Jeffri - the Brunei Playboy. I'll leave you search online about his 90s antics. Few other bits - One of the silver Ferrari 456 wagons (we call them estates in the uk) lives in London and is regularly spotted. The Grey Ferrari F40 with the red pin stripe was imported into the UK and sold by DK Engineering. It was repainted back in its original Rossa Corsa, and then in 2019, it was restored back to the Brunei spec satin grey and red pin stripe finish. It has electric windows and a raised headliner for taller drivers. A car buyer travelled over there years ago and commented on the 'sea of Mercedes' where many of the more vanilla cars of the collection were left outside In the extremely humid conditions, and commented on the leather of steering wheels melting off into the footwells, the article is still available on Jalopnik. The cars were housed in 5 multi story style car parks, and the exotic counter parts (i.e the F1's, 962's, F40's, XJ220s, Several ex 80/90's F1 cars etc) were housed in a glass showroom style building which was air conditioned to preserve them. in the 90s when the money was still flowing, there was a full time team of servicemen looking after the collection before the money dried and lots of cars were sold off or simply left. According to the car buyer who went there, many of the collection are difficult to purchase because accessing the collecting is near impossible, but many cars don't come with official log books (or ownership titles in the US) rendering them unsellable insome cases. There was also a rumour that during the 90s, a Rolls Royce Silver Seraph was left running full time, 24/7 within the set up, to allow the Sultan or the royal family a quick escape in the event of any emergencies. I could go on all day so il stop here but... the collection absolutely boggles the mind.
Think I'd take one of the F-1's and a couple AC's. Absolutely sick collection. And I agree with Ed. Unfortunately, they most likely are sitting in a field or maybe garaged with zero climate control. And have never been started in years. All those cars were built to be driven. I love my 986 even more. :O
He had a MEGA mansion here in Las Vegas, on Tomiyasu (where Wayne Newton and Mike Tyson lived). 65,000 square feet. Bought for 60 mill and aold it for 38 mil. Absolutely insane money
There was word going around he purchased 80 new Mercs (one each) for his concubines back in early 2000’s. One who had left the herim lived nearby and earned $100k a year for the rest of her life. Very interesting guy. He is also exceptionally generous on trips with massive tips given.
I’d love for you guys to do a longer version of this collection. I was just getting into it when you announced the estimated value of the collection. I want more. One of the pics you showed looked like at least 50 Ferrari Enzo’s. I’d love to hear about those.
i was talking about this collection with someone i went to school with a few years ago , he works in oil and gas thats why he was there . supposeedly he was shown some of the less valuable cars in storage and said they were in bad shape as the storage buildings were not built to deal with the humidity .
I remember reading about this as a kid. Has anyone interviewed the Sultan on his cars? Did he lose interest in cars later, or why is it only 80s/90s? This would be a great car museum. Next time one flies to Singapore and Bali; wouldn't mind a stop in Brunei. :)
Most cars were bought by Prince Jefri, the Sultan’s third brother. As the Minister of Finance for Brunei (until 1997) he controlled the revenue from oil and gas. Thanks to the 1997 Asian financial crisis, his investment firm collapsed under $US10 billion in debt; audits later found Jefri himself had received $US14.8 billion. In 2000, Prince Jefri settled lawsuits against him by the government of Brunei and began to return assets to the state
I remember reading an article about his cars and there were huge fields filled with cars rotting in the tropical heat, rolls Royce’s with moss growing on the leather seats. It said that there are cars that were delivered and parked and never drive again or were once and never driven again. I’m sure most of the cars are worthless because they have been rotting in the tropical heat for decades.
I worked for a family a few yrs back that has a fine car collection...Bentley's, Morgan's, Porsche's to name a few. One of which was a Ferrari F355 that my employer boasted that he purchased/traded with the Sultan and from the said deal gained the dream Ferrari for the collection... Was never to sure if it was true but hey... Stunning example though, black on black on black.. Was definitely a special one thats for sure. Personally I was more into the white 1985 Porsche 911 turbo parked next to the F355 at the time. Keep the content coming 🙌🏻
@@4K1R4-00 pretty often. A lot of them were auctioned off in Brunei. Some others end up leaving in private sales. But every now and then one pops up, like most recently that silver 456 estate is in Denver iirc.
I was at the Bentley factory many years ago. In the special vehicle workshop there was a Continental R under a cover. It started up and was loud. It was also low on black wheels with low profile rubber. The guy got out of a race seat and clambered over a full cage. I asked what the hell was that .., he looked around and said the Sultans brother wants to go racing..😂
You guys are my favorite auto enthusiast. Each one of you has stunning personality, and all have "crazy" passion about cars. Pure joy to see you together. Please valuate other Ferraris and other cars that he has (example BMW Nazca). I think Nazca is sold, but that car is my poster car (without poster😂) thank you all. Greetings from Croatia!
There a are a bunch of cars from this collection I'd cherry-pick given unlimited funds, but here are my top 5: McLaren F1 (#002) McLaren F1 GT (#054F1GT) McLaren F1 GTR (#09R - Exact copy of Ueno Clinic car) Ferrari F40 (RHD, Black-Red Pinstripe) Ferrari 456 Venice Wagon (Black)
They’re not in a jungle as you can see, but some are kept outside. Some have never been driven but he has mechanics on the payroll to look after all the cars. The bespoke 456’s are all known as the Venice, and he had plenty of other one off Ferraris including the Bolide which is based on the F50. A lot of the old Rolls Royces had twin turbo conversions and I read that he didn’t purchase anymore Rollers after the BMW takeover in 1998 but that’s not a great loss as he had 300 of the things at that point! Bespoke Astons built by Pininfarina were made (these are called the AM2/3/4), and loads of other things including bikes and ex f1 cars.
I have a family member who actually valued other items and gave advice on the car collection. I can say 10000% for sure that in the early 2000's most of the cars were in very poor condition. At the time most were stored by colour in massive hangers that did NOT have humidity control systems. Bruni is a tropical climate and humidity is a issue. As such the interiors of almost all of them were mouldy and had much more rust than you would expect. I have seen images from then and can tell you it is an over the top collection and he also had a Batmobile that shot a flame thrower like in the movies along with others but being a kid at the time that's the one I remember the most. Not to say he has not fixed his collection now and storing them better but I can say this for the early 2000's for sure no doubt. So I can only guess what they would be like by now but I feel not very good still so have to say I think the value would be a lot less than the very fair and reasonable guesstimate by you guys. Keep up the interesting clips guys
Unless he has a team of about 100 master technicians there is absolutely no possible way that the vast majority of those cars are being cared for at all which is heart breaking.
I worked on the interior design of the Sultan’s Gulfstream jet back in the 1980’s. My role was minor. I was modifying the electrical diagrams and harnesses based on the customization requirements. I recall that he had a bulkhead door that was split in the middle and had hand carved jade handles that slid open and down. He also had sconces on the walls that had verses from the Koran. Gulfstream in Long Beach did beautiful interiors.
You have missed an original GT3, an entire collection of original F1 cars that were literally as the driver got out after the last race. I was lucky enough to have a few minutes to look at some and they were entirely unrestored. Ages ran from mid 80's to the end of the 90's. There was a warehouse full....... At one stage the Antonov heavy lift plane was taking 7 or 8 Rolls Royces a month out there.
I have a good contact who has a bunch of factory parts removed from the Sultans (Ed’s estimate) 15.4 m $ worth modified Ferrari 456’s, he has a stack of as unused brake discs & calliper’s, and exhaust parts and some other bits and pieces. The guy that removed them was part of a team converting cars for TSoB back in the day. Just seeing all the brakes layed out makes you realise the kind of money he was throwing at these cars 😮
The cars are not rotting at all, they are all inside and not in some broken down barn. yes many of them need servicing, but that's not a major problem at all. The collection is in the billions of dollars
Great video and crazy collection. Maybe you should have mentioned that the Sultan obviously only became so rich because he is watching much better for himself than for his people… obviously… I mean there is nothing wrong with having nice cars but this is just ridiculous
Those 456's are beautiful. Also it's pretty crazy how similar those Bentley SUVs from the 90s are to the Bentayga design. The Sultan was a visionary. 😎
My favorite absolutely has to be the Ferrari F50 Bolide. Even though not much is known about it, the design is just so incredibly unique that it’s hard not for it to peak your interest
@@geetee2694 oh wow.. yeah I’ve only ever seen 2 images of the actual car and simply heard it was “based on the f50”. Any idea of the possible whereabouts of the car?
My uncle was a geologist for Exon Mobile and when to work for the government of Brunei. They gave him three different jets over 8 year of employment and an allowance for the upkeep.
Try to do the Sultan of Johor (A state of Malaysia) - He also is supposed to have a massive collection. I’ve seen all sorts of exotica drive past where I used to live. I’m not sure it’s a big as this, but it is supposed to be huge.
Three of the five publicly owned F1 LM's. So the two which he doesn't own can likely set records if they ever hit auction. The six (prototype) which is in McLaren's headquarters will never be sold as long as McLaren is in business. Anyone know who owns the other two? I know one sat at the McLaren Philly dealership years ago and there's video here of someone driving away from a car meet.
11:00 Funny you say that.... My friend went to college with one of the grandsons of the Sultan and they were in the same frat. Occasionally he would loan my friend money and there were 8 digits in his account. According to my friend he was a really cool person, but didn't talk to his grandfather much since he has A LOT of grandchildren.
He has at least one and probably more than one of the Jag XJ220s too! I remember reading a British Car Magazine as a kid in 1992 stating he and Elton John had one of the first XJ220s.
This is why i TRUELY hate people with enormus ammount of money, nothing wrong with that but the ide that someone is just hording / stockpileing cars like this just makes me mad, cars are ment to be driven not just to stand around and collect dust!
This collection reminds me of when you would get to the point in one of those mobile games or early Facebook games like Mafia Wars when you were taking in so much currency every day that you ended up just buying armored Benzes in bulk to spend the money fast enough.
Thought he had some crazy concept cars like the Ferrari Mythos, Lamborghini Cala, and the Bentley hunaudières, etc. Also some crazy mods of Jag XJ220s. For me: wish I could have one of the McLaren F1LMs in that factory Papaya Orange. 😅
The thumbnail is from a ferrari tour years ago and its not owned by someone in brunei, would be glad if you changed it to cars that he actually own....Seen people use that photo way to many times talking about the collection of brunei.
My girlfriend and I are going to Brunei this summer to see the sultans birthday and have high hopes that might be a day to showcase some of these to the crowd
Can you imagine if homeboy sold just 10% of that collection the collector car market would explode!! Love ya boys. I have to say if John has a connect with the collection maybe put in a word for ed to get one of the many f1s this dude has.
Guys , he has close to 5000 vehicles. Thats a fact. I've been there many times and have seen a small part. One section was dusty and not touched. Very weird guys, but wow the cars are stunning.
If the Sultan wanted to introduce tourism to Brunei, all he has to do is open a car museum and all us car lovers would book a ticket 😂
You could make a very popular and incredible museum out of 1% of that collection. It's just silly.
@@gjermundhigraff7789 He could make a museum for just his Mercedes alone
He has enough cars that he could say to tourists as they arrive at the airport "All the Porsches out out at the moment, but here's a Merc to drive around while you are here".
That's actually a fantastic idea, I genuinely think I would go!
Oh 1000%
This guy was the ultimate forza boss
Lmfao 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Bro played gran turismo and use money cheat to get all the cars
Nah, he just had all the cheat codes!
he bought all of the fh3 dlc and tokens
Tbf, Forza was never known featuring super quirky and rare cars, exceot for Motorsport 4.
Forget a valuation, this is the only collection that would create a flux in the global exotic car market if it was ever sold off. Just think about Enzo values when another 65 enter the market at once.
They do not have 65 Enzo's. They had like 3, none of them remain in their collection
From Brunei myself, there are many cars that we still don't know. Many gifted to friends, many passed down. The entire royal family also has many other cars, especially 1st and 2nd cousins.
Damn!
Is everyone in Brunei rich? ;)
What do you think of the government? This all seems completely batshit as an outsider. What’s it like? Can the government just take things from people on a whim?
@@tots4 from the outside it may seem like batshit but in reality for us Bruneians I think we're pretty lucky as we're well taken care for from our medical, education and etc as most of them are given to us for free also our fuel prices are cheap AF as it is probably around $0.35 per liter along with we don't have any kinds of tax including income tax and etc
@@obi1kan0b14 that all seems pretty great, but is there any industry other than oil? What’s stopping you from ending up like Nauru when the natural resource wealth runs out? None of this stuff seems like an investment in the future.
@@tots4 TBH I dont think theres other industries other than oil and gas for us and NGL I think we'll be fucked in the future 😅
As a Bruneian myself, I can assure that all the cars are taken care of besides only a few and I've seen other magnificent cars that is not known to the public
Even though I have no intention of ever seeing these cars or visiting Brunei, knowing this puts my mind at ease
thats good to hear.
Tell us more! What kind of "other magnificent"?
Remember, this is not public😂
It's not illegal to own cars, just a lot of import cost due to the local dealers not bringing in high spec cars and not a lot of manufacturers make right hand drive cars. The princes also drives around Pagani Huayras and Laferrari's to work or events lol
@@youneszreika specific cars like rr. Many supercars are also very hard to import (there are no lambo,ferrari... dealers). If you have connections and run a big business then itll be easier. It is even harder if you're not a local (i.e. a native). Holding Bruneian passport but having 'Chinese' blood won't do you any good either.
Being an Australian and knowing there are so many amazing cars never made in right hand drive this video makes me smile a bit.
I fairness theres several that y'all got that we didn't in the US
@@danielcrane1682 Well there's the actual Australian made cars, some of which ended up in the US as Pontiacs and so forth. I'm talking about cars like Porsche and Ferrari that released their best cars only in left hand drive.
@@danielcrane1682 yo
@@shermanator87 yea the sad part is tho many of the cars have been converted back to left hand drive as there starting to make there way to ferrari collectors that dont care about there history funny enough im pretty shure theres a white f40 that belonged to the sultan that was in Australia for a bit before bring sold to tokyo i beleve but not shure because i really dont remember it accurately enough to say forshure it is on vinwiki tho. And it still has its 512tr intirior and is lhd verry cool there is prety detailed photos of it since its now out of the collection
@@shermanator87 brits got them in RHD, so did Japan
Mark my words, a close friend outfitted this guys 747 private jet with interiors, furnishings, plates, solid gold flatware…you name it. This was in the late 90’s. They deliver the jet after it’s finished on a private island of his, and he isn’t there isn’t on the runway. An hour late, the Sultan rolls up on a Harley wearing cut off jean shorts and a dirty t-shirt that says “I’m the boss” on it. He loved the finish out on the 747, said thank you, then blasted off up the trail on his Harley leaving all who worked years on his plane standing there in awe.
Someone pulled a prank on you
Sounds like you don't know the right use of " mark my words"
Sounds like an episode from mordecia and rigby’s regular show
I want to hear more about this "private island" that has a 5,000ft runway long enough to land a 747. If this island existed, it would be found and popular on Google Satellite images, no?
John Tamarian should basically put the tagline of curated as "I had the opportunity...." 🤣
💀💀💀💀
I read this as he way saying that😂
I tried to do a drinking game with his curated content take a shot when he says a or um. Woke up in the yard almost naked.. maybe try it with beer next time???
😂😂😂😂
...or "My Very Dear Friend"
The astounded look on Ficarra's face talking about some of these cars is priceless...
10:39 My favorite was Ed’s after valueing the F1s at $300M.
I worked in Brunei in the mid 90’s and lived there as a child in the 70’s. I remember like it was yesterday sitting on his knee in a Ferrari 308/328 playing with the steering wheel whilst he talked to my dad. The sights I saw in the 90’s were incredible! McLaren F1’s, Ferrari F50’s, Ferrari testarossa FX to name but a few. Brilliant country, brilliant people. And the amount of cars left to rot outside was unreal!
This video could be 3 hours long, surprised it’s only 16 minutes.
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I would watch the whole thing
I've never been able to find a full listing of what he owns. I doubt anyone truly knows exactly what he has. There are probably cars stashed all over the country that have been forgotten.
@@DougSisk-n6q ong
@@DougSisk-n6q Me too.
I hope someday we all get to see all the cars documented, one of the greatest automotive mysteries would be solved
There was an appraiser that was called to Brunei a couple years ago, that called a portion of this collection “the reef” because they were stored outside and so badly destroyed be the elements that the only life they have left is to be pushed into the ocean and made into an artificial reef
There's also a rumour of an actual reef made up discards from a fleetwide wheel&tyre upgrade, I think for the Rolls and Bentley, but maybe it was the jags. Several hundred sets of the originals were just dumped in a big pile offshore.
@@jonathanj8303 I think it was the dumping of just tires - they tried to dump tires to make a reef - didn’t work of course
I've loved the Sultan's collection since discovering it through car magazine articles. This just scratches the surface of his absolutely crazy and emence collection. Several mechanics and technicians from Ferrari, Bentley, Mercedes ect, have gone to Bruni and commented on the craziness of it. Thank you.
I was reading a magazine in the late 90''s that had an article about his collection. Its is immense. something like 8 billion worth of cars. and some modern recreations of classics, like the Merceddes Grosser and modern Gullwings.
A friend of mine worked maintaining the collection for the Sultan. Was like painting the forth bridge apparently by the time they serviced the last one in the garage they went straight back to the first one again.. Bought his whole family open around the world plane tickets when he left as a parting gift.
So do people not maintain the garage anymore?
@@Stevahnehuis No
@@Stevahnehuis I've heard that Sultan of Browneye's cars are all rusty
@@pistonburner6448 underrated comment
@@christosk8183 Well, as far as I can see you didn't give it a thumbs up either... 😢🤣
I was waiting for this video. This is why VinWiki is one of my favorite channels on all of youtube. Can't wait for more crazy appraisals!!!
None will ever be as crazy as this appraisal.
On the next VinWiki video:
Ed: "So if any of you happen to have seen any McLaren F1's in a rainforest, let me know"
And with that, tavarish starts sweating...
I love the appraisal series, you guys should makes these videos 30-45 minutes. Could listen to this all day
Glad you mentioned the Dauer 962s! That has always been my favorite and is an absolute unicorn which, to this day, hasn't shown up on social media nor TH-cam. I'd love to see someone like Doug Demuro to get his hands on one.
Why Doug Demuro? So that he could get half the facts wrong and have no valuable technical opinions about it while goobering about its market value??
Imagine what would happen to the collector car market if he sold them all off at one time.
Nothing with souche boutique cars it wouldnt matter
He could single handedly crash the market for some cars if he sold them all at once. It’d be like a crypto whale sold their whole wallet at once.
@@johnsonsl944 no it would not as he physically doesn't have quantities high enough to sell that many as he bought the cars but not all of them are his in fact most are owned by other members of the royal family so to sell all the cars all the members of the faimly who own them would have to agree to sell them at the same time and with a faimly so large its not going to happen lol
The cars have not been maintained and no climate controls turned on. Basically, sitting in the heat for decades.
@gee Tee imagine going off a report that is over 20 years old !!!!!!! do some research on the topic you'd find out quite the opposite
Brunei if you are viewing, I'll pay my own way to visit and tour your collection and share for all of TH-cam to remove any rumours.
Good luck if you get caught rip
Lmao. You’ll pay your way huh? There’s people willing to pay hundreds of thousands for access to this collection.
You will be disappear my friend if you do that lol
I love your appraisal videos, especcialy @FicarraClassic, I hurt my ribs earlier this week and you had me laughing so much that I may have injured myself even more!
Based on a trusted source from Malaysia who has personally visited several of the Sultan's garage mansions (unverified) has estimated the collection to be worth more than 800 millions. I still can't get my head around this!
Can we get an update with the new leak images?
A friend of mine was his butler for his London residence. Great story's he mentioned about 1000 cars at the residence. His brother prince Jeffrey gave him a gold Cartier watch when he quit
One of close friends brother is part of the personal doctors team of the Sultan and he says that the cars are kept in mint conditions a couple of huge facilities and apparently sultan and few others drive some of the vast cars quite regularly on private roads
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No, they are not.
@gee Tee glad to see that you know exactly how these cars are and are not stored 👍🏼
Guy my dad knows used to be employed by the sultan to look after his cars at his home in Scotland. He’s an ex Bentley mechanic, one of the best mechanics I’ve ever met.
holy crap 2300 cars is far more than i ever expected. most impressive.
bro 456 wagon... i had no idea. this is the greatest wagon ever.
That’s a small number. There were really around 5k-7k at the peak of the collection.
@@breakupgoogle one of them - silver 456 Wagon is in US right now
@@4K1R4-00 thats so wonderful. ill search for pics. ty!
@@Muco.50 geez. i had no idea. i always heard it was the best and such but acers of cars is impressive.
There it is!!! I posted about doing this video for months!! Glad to see it
BIllion's of dollars of exotics rotting away in the jungle. So sad.
i thought they were all in a nice garage
they're not left in jungle u muppet..
They are not abandoned 🤣 all in storage
@@tipsy8201 yeah in a storage that's located in the middle of a jungle that's not climate controlled.
@@tipsy8201 not temperature controlled storage though according to most reports
Thank you guys! been waiting for a review of his collection since I am a kid, mind blowing!
Vinwiki daily content, I'm in heaven!
I could listen to ficarra all day long, big love for this guy
hello guys i am from Brunei.I can assure you guys that all of the car is well kept in to 4-5 halls(double stories) that are protected by our miltary.
That’s awesome to hear man!!
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So come during Sultan birthday 15 July every year or keep update during royal Brunei wedding you can witness different kind of rolls Royce or open u tube about the silver jubilee of Sultan parade
been facinated by this collection for years. You guys missed one major point, that most of the cars are according to many sources online at least, owned by the Sultan's Brother, Prince Jeffri - the Brunei Playboy. I'll leave you search online about his 90s antics. Few other bits - One of the silver Ferrari 456 wagons (we call them estates in the uk) lives in London and is regularly spotted. The Grey Ferrari F40 with the red pin stripe was imported into the UK and sold by DK Engineering. It was repainted back in its original Rossa Corsa, and then in 2019, it was restored back to the Brunei spec satin grey and red pin stripe finish. It has electric windows and a raised headliner for taller drivers. A car buyer travelled over there years ago and commented on the 'sea of Mercedes' where many of the more vanilla cars of the collection were left outside In the extremely humid conditions, and commented on the leather of steering wheels melting off into the footwells, the article is still available on Jalopnik. The cars were housed in 5 multi story style car parks, and the exotic counter parts (i.e the F1's, 962's, F40's, XJ220s, Several ex 80/90's F1 cars etc) were housed in a glass showroom style building which was air conditioned to preserve them. in the 90s when the money was still flowing, there was a full time team of servicemen looking after the collection before the money dried and lots of cars were sold off or simply left. According to the car buyer who went there, many of the collection are difficult to purchase because accessing the collecting is near impossible, but many cars don't come with official log books (or ownership titles in the US) rendering them unsellable insome cases. There was also a rumour that during the 90s, a Rolls Royce Silver Seraph was left running full time, 24/7 within the set up, to allow the Sultan or the royal family a quick escape in the event of any emergencies. I could go on all day so il stop here but... the collection absolutely boggles the mind.
Think I'd take one of the F-1's and a couple AC's. Absolutely sick collection. And I agree with Ed. Unfortunately, they most likely are sitting in a field or maybe garaged with zero climate control. And have never been started in years. All those cars were built to be driven. I love my 986 even more. :O
I still can't comprehend the scale of this collection. As you can tell in the video just researching and talking about it blew my mind.
Crazy collection! The Stutz factory still exists in Indianapolis, it’s rentable art space for art studios, the building is beautiful
How awesome would it be if the hosts of this video were invited to tour one of the garages? That’d be some epic content.
i bet ferrari has never sent the sultan an angry letter for customizing a car.
Hell just buy the company lol
He's a sultan not some dumb TH-camr looking to show off
Thanks guys that was fun.
He had a MEGA mansion here in Las Vegas, on Tomiyasu (where Wayne Newton and Mike Tyson lived). 65,000 square feet. Bought for 60 mill and aold it for 38 mil. Absolutely insane money
There was word going around he purchased 80 new Mercs (one each) for his concubines back in early 2000’s. One who had left the herim lived nearby and earned $100k a year for the rest of her life. Very interesting guy. He is also exceptionally generous on trips with massive tips given.
The Sultan's not a collector, he's a hoarder who likes to flex, hard. The cars are never driven, and will rot away in garages for his ego's sake
He andhis brother used to drive them. They must still drive some.
I’d love for you guys to do a longer version of this collection. I was just getting into it when you announced the estimated value of the collection. I want more.
One of the pics you showed looked like at least 50 Ferrari Enzo’s. I’d love to hear about those.
i was talking about this collection with someone i went to school with a few years ago , he works in oil and gas thats why he was there . supposeedly he was shown some of the less valuable cars in storage and said they were in bad shape as the storage buildings were not built to deal with the humidity .
Climate controls were actually turned off.
Ficarra looks great! Good for him!
I remember reading about this as a kid. Has anyone interviewed the Sultan on his cars?
Did he lose interest in cars later, or why is it only 80s/90s?
This would be a great car museum. Next time one flies to Singapore and Bali; wouldn't mind a stop in Brunei. :)
Most cars were bought by Prince Jefri, the Sultan’s third brother. As the Minister of Finance for Brunei (until 1997) he controlled the revenue from oil and gas. Thanks to the 1997 Asian financial crisis, his investment firm collapsed under $US10 billion in debt; audits later found Jefri himself had received $US14.8 billion. In 2000, Prince Jefri settled lawsuits against him by the government of Brunei and began to return assets to the state
I remember reading an article about his cars and there were huge fields filled with cars rotting in the tropical heat, rolls Royce’s with moss growing on the leather seats. It said that there are cars that were delivered and parked and never drive again or were once and never driven again. I’m sure most of the cars are worthless because they have been rotting in the tropical heat for decades.
I'm still hope that some automotive journalist will be allowed to completely document the Sultan's collection.
This was great, fellas. Been waiting a long time for it. Ficarra is a treat. My number was somewhere in the billions?
I worked for a family a few yrs back that has a fine car collection...Bentley's, Morgan's, Porsche's to name a few.
One of which was a Ferrari F355 that my employer boasted that he purchased/traded with the Sultan and from the said deal gained the dream Ferrari for the collection... Was never to sure if it was true but hey...
Stunning example though, black on black on black.. Was definitely a special one thats for sure.
Personally I was more into the white 1985 Porsche 911 turbo parked next to the F355 at the time.
Keep the content coming 🙌🏻
how often Sultan's cars are for sale?
@@4K1R4-00 pretty often. A lot of them were auctioned off in Brunei. Some others end up leaving in private sales. But every now and then one pops up, like most recently that silver 456 estate is in Denver iirc.
I usually don't leave comments but this Is f****** awesome.
I was at the Bentley factory many years ago. In the special vehicle workshop there was a Continental R under a cover. It started up and was loud. It was also low on black wheels with low profile rubber. The guy got out of a race seat and clambered over a full cage. I asked what the hell was that .., he looked around and said the Sultans brother wants to go racing..😂
You guys are my favorite auto enthusiast. Each one of you has stunning personality, and all have "crazy" passion about cars. Pure joy to see you together. Please valuate other Ferraris and other cars that he has (example BMW Nazca). I think Nazca is sold, but that car is my poster car (without poster😂) thank you all. Greetings from Croatia!
There a are a bunch of cars from this collection I'd cherry-pick given unlimited funds, but here are my top 5:
McLaren F1 (#002)
McLaren F1 GT (#054F1GT)
McLaren F1 GTR (#09R - Exact copy of Ueno Clinic car)
Ferrari F40 (RHD, Black-Red Pinstripe)
Ferrari 456 Venice Wagon (Black)
They’re not in a jungle as you can see, but some are kept outside. Some have never been driven but he has mechanics on the payroll to look after all the cars. The bespoke 456’s are all known as the Venice, and he had plenty of other one off Ferraris including the Bolide which is based on the F50. A lot of the old Rolls Royces had twin turbo conversions and I read that he didn’t purchase anymore Rollers after the BMW takeover in 1998 but that’s not a great loss as he had 300 of the things at that point! Bespoke Astons built by Pininfarina were made (these are called the AM2/3/4), and loads of other things including bikes and ex f1 cars.
He also has Mercedes make reproduction Mercedes Pullmans with all the trimmings
I have a family member who actually valued other items and gave advice on the car collection.
I can say 10000% for sure that in the early 2000's most of the cars were in very poor condition. At the time most were stored by colour in massive hangers that did NOT have humidity control systems. Bruni is a tropical climate and humidity is a issue. As such the interiors of almost all of them were mouldy and had much more rust than you would expect.
I have seen images from then and can tell you it is an over the top collection and he also had a Batmobile that shot a flame thrower like in the movies along with others but being a kid at the time that's the one I remember the most.
Not to say he has not fixed his collection now and storing them better but I can say this for the early 2000's for sure no doubt. So I can only guess what they would be like by now but I feel not very good still so have to say I think the value would be a lot less than the very fair and reasonable guesstimate by you guys. Keep up the interesting clips guys
Unless he has a team of about 100 master technicians there is absolutely no possible way that the vast majority of those cars are being cared for at all which is heart breaking.
Yea, a lot of the Mercedes and less valuable cars slowly have become part of the jungle.
Amazing video! I was very interested when I saw that you guys appraised the world’s largest car collection.
How do we get Ed to Brunei on tour?
I worked on the interior design of the Sultan’s Gulfstream jet back in the 1980’s. My role was minor. I was modifying the electrical diagrams and harnesses based on the customization requirements. I recall that he had a bulkhead door that was split in the middle and had hand carved jade handles that slid open and down. He also had sconces on the walls that had verses from the Koran. Gulfstream in Long Beach did beautiful interiors.
You have missed an original GT3, an entire collection of original F1 cars that were literally as the driver got out after the last race. I was lucky enough to have a few minutes to look at some and they were entirely unrestored. Ages ran from mid 80's to the end of the 90's. There was a warehouse full....... At one stage the Antonov heavy lift plane was taking 7 or 8 Rolls Royces a month out there.
I have a good contact who has a bunch of factory parts removed from the Sultans (Ed’s estimate) 15.4 m $ worth modified Ferrari 456’s, he has a stack of as unused brake discs & calliper’s, and exhaust parts and some other bits and pieces. The guy that removed them was part of a team converting cars for TSoB back in the day. Just seeing all the brakes layed out makes you realise the kind of money he was throwing at these cars 😮
You should appraise my collection next. It's easy I have 0 cars.
The cars are not rotting at all, they are all inside and not in some broken down barn. yes many of them need servicing, but that's not a major problem at all. The collection is in the billions of dollars
Great video and crazy collection. Maybe you should have mentioned that the Sultan obviously only became so rich because he is watching much better for himself than for his people… obviously… I mean there is nothing wrong with having nice cars but this is just ridiculous
Yea found this hard to watch
You know nothing about brunei but already talking sh1t like your personallity LOL
Those 456's are beautiful. Also it's pretty crazy how similar those Bentley SUVs from the 90s are to the Bentayga design. The Sultan was a visionary. 😎
Id say the front looks alot more like the culilan
That list is insane. Not only the cars but the amount each of some of them is ridiculous!
Awesome! I requested this one on the Jay Leno video!
My favorite absolutely has to be the Ferrari F50 Bolide. Even though not much is known about it, the design is just so incredibly unique that it’s hard not for it to peak your interest
It was never made. It was a mockup of the potential project.
(I liked it too.)
@@geetee2694 so that’s why there’s so little info on it I guess... dang
We did a thread on the Ferrari Chat forum in the mid/late 2000s, with verifiable people who would be more 'in the know'.
@@geetee2694 oh wow.. yeah I’ve only ever seen 2 images of the actual car and simply heard it was “based on the f50”. Any idea of the possible whereabouts of the car?
@@Spherz it does not exist. lol. The mock up was not a real car. It was presented at Pininfarina.
Love these appraisals videos, and would love to see one covering the Collier collection! Local billion-dollar collection here in Naples!
If this included every single car, it would be hours long.
Weeks long👍
My uncle was a geologist for Exon Mobile and when to work for the government of Brunei. They gave him three different jets over 8 year of employment and an allowance for the upkeep.
To keep the jets or only while he worked temporary
Being a Geologist seems to be more exciting than it sounds initially.
And I felt dumb for having around 200 toy cars...
His brother, The prince of Brunei, Jefri Bolkiah, has a yacht called Tit (the lifeboats are names Nipple 1 and Nipple 2).
Try to do the Sultan of Johor (A state of Malaysia) - He also is supposed to have a massive collection. I’ve seen all sorts of exotica drive past where I used to live. I’m not sure it’s a big as this, but it is supposed to be huge.
Ya sultan johor and all his son has a beautiful collection
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The S73 wagon has to be one of the craziest in the collection 🤯
Three of the five publicly owned F1 LM's. So the two which he doesn't own can likely set records if they ever hit auction. The six (prototype) which is in McLaren's headquarters will never be sold as long as McLaren is in business. Anyone know who owns the other two? I know one sat at the McLaren Philly dealership years ago and there's video here of someone driving away from a car meet.
I think Ralph Lauren owns one, and the other has been seen in the Chicago area
He has 2 Bentley Sporting Estates, I transported both from Crewe to Charles De Gaulle airport for transfer to Brunei.
It’s not about the money
The cars are priceless
Almost
Loved this episode!!! Waited a while for this one!! You guys should do an appraisal of DavCars collection next!!
Is the collection bigger than Shmee's?
Maybe 1000 times larger than Shmee’s.
This is the one we’ve been waiting for
As I watch you go through the list of crazy cars, I'm left wondering what would be the cheapest of all?
Possibly an unmodded Merc limo??
11:00 Funny you say that.... My friend went to college with one of the grandsons of the Sultan and they were in the same frat.
Occasionally he would loan my friend money and there were 8 digits in his account.
According to my friend he was a really cool person, but didn't talk to his grandfather much since he has A LOT of grandchildren.
Who’s here after the new leaks
Feels like a historical moment, been following this for so song
He has at least one and probably more than one of the Jag XJ220s too! I remember reading a British Car Magazine as a kid in 1992 stating he and Elton John had one of the first XJ220s.
This is exactly what's wrong with the world
Him being such a big car guy, you should try and make contact with the sultan and get a tour of his collection. He may shock you guys.
This is why i TRUELY hate people with enormus ammount of money, nothing wrong with that but the ide that someone is just hording / stockpileing cars like this just makes me mad, cars are ment to be driven not just to stand around and collect dust!
This collection reminds me of when you would get to the point in one of those mobile games or early Facebook games like Mafia Wars when you were taking in so much currency every day that you ended up just buying armored Benzes in bulk to spend the money fast enough.
Thought he had some crazy concept cars like the Ferrari Mythos, Lamborghini Cala, and the Bentley hunaudières, etc. Also some crazy mods of Jag XJ220s. For me: wish I could have one of the McLaren F1LMs in that factory Papaya Orange. 😅
He never had Cala or Hunaudieres (Cala is owned by Factory I believe)
He owns all the Ferrari Mythos. Iirc, these are all the Sultan’s cars and are kept at the Brunei palace.
I once went to Dynasty 2, a restaurant in Chelsea Wharf, London. The sultan was also there that evening. He arrived in a purple Bentley.
The thumbnail is from a ferrari tour years ago and its not owned by someone in brunei, would be glad if you changed it to cars that he actually own....Seen people use that photo way to many times talking about the collection of brunei.
Please do a complete long version of the video
My girlfriend and I are going to Brunei this summer to see the sultans birthday and have high hopes that might be a day to showcase some of these to the crowd
Yes definitely! I’m from Brunei. If you want to see some cars do let me know
@@bosayam8002im from brunei myself and i'd wanna see too man.
Don't forget to go to Muara beach. Fond memories of Brunei, day trips to Labuan. I used to buy nasi beras in Bandar Seri Begawan.
This channel is awesome. Why the 🤬 did the TH-cam algorithm take so long to show me this channel?
Can you imagine if homeboy sold just 10% of that collection the collector car market would explode!! Love ya boys. I have to say if John has a connect with the collection maybe put in a word for ed to get one of the many f1s this dude has.
Nah, these are such one off and boutique cars that it would effect the market.
Ed Can’t afford those F’1s. Seriously.
Guys , he has close to 5000 vehicles. Thats a fact. I've been there many times and have seen a small part. One section was dusty and not touched. Very weird guys, but wow the cars are stunning.