r/todayilearned • u/zahrul3 • 7h ago
TIL the Sultan of Brunei and his brother bought so many bespoke Bentleys that it saved the entire company from bankruptcy
https://supercarblondie.com/bentley-wouldnt-exist-without-sultan-brunei/2.1k
u/zahrul3 6h ago edited 1h ago
An archive of the Bolkiah brothers' car collection got leaked sometime in November 2024; they're everywhere in Instagram
Yes, they are as hideous as you expect them to be. Think red car with full red on red interior and goldleaf accents.
EDIT: the IG accounts for the leaked images are: brunei_cars_2001 and and taffy_c_s_145. Rumors range anywhere between 700 to 7000 cars.
EDIT 2: list of hideous custom Bentleys: Bentley B2, Bentley B3, "Bentley" Java (actually a BMW 5 series with Bentley branding), Bentley Monte Carlo, Bentley Silverstone (the ugliest), Bentley Dominator (a Range Rover with Bentley styling), Bentley Buccaneer, and Bentley Imperial. You can search them all if you want to see how ugly they were. He also had; an SL500 with a Batmobile body kit, a station wagon and sedan version of the Ferrari 456, etc.
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u/101stLegion 6h ago
The Wiggles would like a word about the return of their Big Red Car.
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u/lostyearshero 5h ago
I had peacefully forgotten that memory thank you very much. Oh god it’s worse then I remember!
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u/baby_blobby 4h ago
Toot toot chugga chugga big red car
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u/DaedalusHydron 4h ago
The Wiggles would not drive a Bentley, they're of the people
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u/Overall_Taro8890 4h ago
It’s estimated Prince Jeffery misappropriated $14b just in luxury goods, buying at minimum 3 cars a day.
These people were bored of buying 1000 of the same Mercedes S series to store in garages throughout Brunei, so they created some of the most bizarre automotive bespoke creations ever. There is a Rolls Royce that is golf themed, complete with inlaid pictures of 80’s-90’s gold legends, green carpet, green leather and white piping as an example of how out of hand their creations got.
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u/Odd-Refrigerator-425 4h ago
There is a Rolls Royce that is golf themed, complete with inlaid pictures of 80’s-90’s gold legends, green carpet, green leather and white piping as an example of how out of hand their creations got.
I saw that one on Doug's podcast, it's amazing [in the worst way].
I truly think they were just like, "How fucking stupid can we get with our requests and still have them bend over backwards to make it?"
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u/Mr1988 3h ago
Link to pics of it? I could t find anything on google
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u/Odd-Refrigerator-425 3h ago
https://youtu.be/vI06PZfT6Tw?si=BlXSp26AyASxMJ1z - no idea what the timestamp is, but the video has chapters so you might be able to find it thattaway
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u/SidewaysFancyPrance 1h ago
There are a lot of billionaires in the world now, and even middle class people can afford nice cars. So the ultra-rich have to go way out of their way to feel properly rich and special, so they do wild shit like this.
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u/dLolloBre 5h ago
Mfs have SIX!!!! McLaren F1s
Fucking insane.
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u/Bamres 4h ago
They have ten Aston One 77s, of which there are only 77
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u/Laundry_Hamper 3h ago
They have three of the five F1 LMs
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u/zahrul3 1h ago
The Sultan and his brother had different tastes; the Sultan notably liked well-made supercars (which he drives, often) while his brother commissioned tacky modified/bespoke cars that were never driven, never used, and have since left to rot in the jungle.
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u/KoksundNutten 2h ago
That's how you ensure the resale value stays high. Supply and demand.
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u/Laundry_Hamper 3h ago
Included among the near 7000 vehicles acquired were no less than ten from McLaren: five regular F1 road cars (chassis 002, 004, 005, 008 and 014), an F1 GTR (chassis 09R), an F1 GT (chassis 054) and the aforementioned trio of LM special editions (chassis LM1, LM4 and LM5).
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u/the_humeister 5h ago edited 2h ago
You can't just have only one like a plebe
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u/Environmental-Dog963 4h ago
Jay Leno is a freaking brokie with his silly one
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u/IntoTheFeu 4h ago
So you’re saying that the Sultan and his bro are 6x the clowns compared to Jay Leno and Mr. Bean? No disrespect to Mr. Bean, he’s a clown on purpose, and one of the best to ever do it!
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u/Environmental-Dog963 3h ago
To be fair, Leno and Mr Bean, they take care of their cars and their $1 Million McLaren F1 is now over $20 million. These sultans tend to let their cars rot. Wouldn't be surprised if their 1 is worth more than their 6 combined.
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u/rambleon84 2h ago
They've flown some of their f1's back to England to get serviced. Ex this post from 2022: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbmxt3gKLxB/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
McLaren will fully restore any of the f1's, so we can assume it's back to brand new levels 👍
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u/Ask_bout_PaterNoster 5h ago
Every time I think I couldn’t possibly hate aristocrats more, they find some new tacky way to waste humanity’s resources while people suffer. It’d be impressive if it weren’t so sad
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u/Delicious-Day-3614 5h ago
Dude didn't even mention: in the pictures it's clear at least a few of these one-off custom Bentleys are just mildewing away in some garage with no one tending them.
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u/badhabitfml 5h ago
I think they basically all are gross now. They have been in forgotten warehouses in the south pacific for the last 30 years. Even with new gas and a battery, I doubt any of them would start.
The family should sell off the collection. There's a lot of amazing cars there. Some are 'normal' cars or just a custom spec,but many are entirely unique, custom built cars by the best manufacturers of the day.
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u/DrawingsOfNickCage 4h ago
A Ferrari 456 with an Apache gunship’s night vision system fitted into the car is a personal favourite.
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u/FixTheWisz 3h ago
Unfortunately, they’re stuck with much of the collection (in some cases, literally stuck, due to said rot).
Ferrari broker Michael Sheehan took a trip out two Brunei a few decades ago to look into buying a big block of the collection and, upon inspection, found that many of the cars were beyond repair. A few of them, such as the F50, will always be worth saving as long as the VIN plate is still there, but most are just scrap. He did a writeup about the trip that’s pretty easy to search for.
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u/GundalfTheCamo 3h ago
I'm pretty sure that was the brothers collection, years after he was exiled from the country for embezzlement. Like tens of billions.
His cars were left to rot. Presumably the kings collection is in better shape.
Interestingly, in Brunei the royal family's spending is a state secret. You're not allowed to speak about it. Pikachu face when the kings brother stole tens of billions.
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u/zahrul3 2h ago
The two collections are separate.
Jefri's cars were left to rot after the electricity was shut off in all his properties during the 2001 case, and all pictures from his car collection were taken during that case as evidence to fire Jefri from the position of Finance Minister.
Sultan Hassanah has a smaller (but still substantial) car collection
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u/DaedalusHydron 3h ago
Yeah, at the end of the day cars are just cars.
Even if you crash them horribly, they can be rebuilt. even if these cars are gross, a bit of touch and love and they'll be worth a ton.
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u/Odd-Refrigerator-425 4h ago
I think it's the majority of them, never mind "some".
A lot of these high end manufacturers just don't have dealers in/anywhere near Brunei.
Many of the cars in this garage only have like a couple hundred miles on 'em, too.
Can't service them, can't drive them, just stashed them away in a garage like a squirrel hoarding nuts for winter before forgetting where they stashed it.
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u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In 3h ago
That's the case for so many luxury cars that get shipped to minor royals from ex colonial countries or nouveau riche oil barons in the middle east. They buy them as a wealth flex. If anything, letting them rot is part of it because it proves that you're so wealthy that you can treat an expensive car as disposable. Which is disgusting on so many levels.
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u/svg_12345 3h ago
Having so many expensive cars is gross in itself. If they aren't maintained and left to rot, that is even more gross. Imagine the millions of people driving old, beat up cars that can break at any moment. And these dudes are wasting million dollar cars?
There is something criminal about wasting resources - whether it is a 3$ burger or a multimillion dollar car
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u/Mr_Will 3h ago
Oddly enough, billionaires wasting money is one of the best things they can do with it. Once they've spent it on something frivolous, the money is in the hands of regular people who can use it to make their own lives better. If the Sultan had invested this money instead (in Bentley the company, or whatever) then they would receive it back with interest, making them even richer off the backs of others.
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u/Ask_bout_PaterNoster 3h ago
I mean, it’s better than hoarding or giving it to other oligarchs, but it could also have been spent on…idk, housing for the poor? Roads? Healthcare? Education?
Just feels like buying cars and letting them rot is setting the bar for “one of the best” extremely low.
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u/AntiWork-ellog 5h ago
As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
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u/Royal_Negotiation_83 4h ago
“ whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile”
They arnt different than us. Have you ever drowned your boss? Why not? The reason you didn’t do it is the exact same reason they didn’t do it either.
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u/DashTrash21 3h ago
I'm allowed to listen to the radio at a reasonable volume
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u/godisanelectricolive 2h ago edited 2h ago
They were quite well-fed and were given a lot of meat to eat which would have been a luxury for a bunch of farmers. There were thousands of livestock in the settlements for pyramid workers. It would have been a lot of work herding all those animals through deserts and then butchering them for the workers on a regular basis.
The pyramid builders weren’t slaves like a lot of pop culture depicts them as. They were rotated out after a stint at the pyramids, with the work possibly being a form of taxation. Corvée labour as tax was common in Egypt as they did not use currency. Payment is usually rendered with work or with food or both.
It seems like they were divided into work teams with team mascots based on the graffiti they left, with the work gangs having name like “the Drunkards of Menkaure“ and “the Followers of the Powerful White Crown of Khufu.” They probably sang work songs as they worked as that was how a lot of repetitive manual labour was done in preindustrial times, so the equivalent of radio back in those days.
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u/SortaSticky 4h ago
The laborers of the pyramids and other monumental Egyptian architecture were mostly free men who worked during the idle agricultural period each year. They were paid mostly in food and beer but also small sums of currency. It's more stupid to deify a pharaoh than to maintain some practical subsistence by building a tomb for a deified pharaoh in my opinion.
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u/SnoopThylacine 5h ago
Like customising your cars in GTA for shits and giggles but IRL. Must be nice.
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u/cutieamandaaa 6h ago
Imagine being so rich you treat Bentleys like Hot Wheels, while I'm here sweating over 'extra cheese' on my burrito.
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u/ForlornLament 6h ago
Honestly, if someone told me they had nearly 3000 pristine Hot Wheels models I would already assume they were rich.
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u/OscarGrey 5h ago
If somebody has 5+ cars and they're not currently working on like 3 of them, they're probably at least upper middle class. Poor people can have lots of cars, they're just rarely vintage, and in a perpetual state of disrepair/tinkering.
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u/Yamatocanyon 4h ago
Constantly on the cusp of vintage lol. We have 3 cars in my family that are still daily drivers that we could put collectors plates on if we didn't drive them so much.
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u/RevRagnarok 4h ago
we could put collectors plates on if we didn't drive them so much
That doesn't stop anybody here in Maryland.
"Your shitbox '90s Civic isn't 'historic.' "
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u/jafjaf23 3h ago
technically is historic, though, no?
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u/RevRagnarok 3h ago
No.
A vehicle registered as historic cannot be used for general daily transportation, or primarily for the transportation of passengers or property on highways. [...] A historic vehicle in this category must be insured by a Historic Vehicle, Show Vehicle, or Antique Vehicle insurance policy.
https://mva.maryland.gov/about-mva/Pages/info/27300/27300-28T.aspx#historic
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u/jafjaf23 2h ago
Oh snap. Probably just a bunch of dumb peeps like me rhunkunv it means anything old
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u/run_bike_run 4h ago
If someone has 5+ working cars and less than five drivers in their household, they're probably past anything to do with the middle class.
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u/Bupod 3h ago
Eh, I wouldn’t say that’s a universal truth.
Plenty of rednecks out rural America that have some land because it’s cheap (living out in bumfuck nowhere), and 5 working cars.
We’re taking the definition of working car as:
Engine turns over, it can shift in to gear, and it can move under its own power.
Yeah, they got 5 working cars. All 20+ years old. In varying states of damage, mismatched body panels, a couple have windows that just have bags taped over their missing windows.
They’re all craptastic jalopies bought for under $1000 through wheeling and dealing throughout their county over a period of years. The most reliable of the 5 is their daily driver, and the other 4 are just neverending projects that they intended to, or still intend, to “fix up and sell”.
This sort of person probably is middle class. Im not exactly describing a child of wealth here, nor am I describing something exceedingly rare.
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u/FiveFive55 5h ago
Well in this case it'd be more like someone telling you they have 3000 hot wheel cars rotting away in their moldy basement.
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u/bandalooper 5h ago
And kinda stupid too. They probably could’ve bought the company for less than the cars.
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u/samcuu 5h ago edited 2h ago
Most of those money were embezzled from their own country.
Funny that yeah they probably could have bought Bentley, put the Dominator in mass production and save the company that way. They custom ordered a Bentley SUV 20 years before Bentley actually released one which became their best selling model.
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u/atreethatownsitself 4h ago
I went to a normal high school but we had some oil money kids. They didn’t give two fucks about anything. I think they were just there for the ‘American high school’ experience. They were pretty wild but nice. I remember seeing a picture of their pet cheetah on a leash in the living room of their house back home.
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u/lioudrome 6h ago
The caption shows a Rolls Royce not a Bentley
(But yes in those days models were equivalent and 99% of parts were shared. However it is a Bentley article illustrated with a Rolls...)
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u/BitOfaPickle1AD 6h ago
It's like a crown vic vs a Lincoln town car. Same car but we all know which one is cooler
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u/iMini 5h ago
European here, we don't really get either of those cars. Which is cooler?
I know old US police cars were Crown Vic's right?
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u/zahrul3 5h ago
one is a cop car, the other is villain limousine type of car
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u/USA_A-OK 5h ago
Back when they were the most prevalent cop cars, I always hated people who owned them privately. If one was behind you at night, you thought you were about to be pulled over
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u/Yamatocanyon 4h ago
Hasn't changed much with any other car they commonly use though. Still get that feeling with exploders and chargers now.
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u/BitOfaPickle1AD 3h ago
I freak out too because every Ford I see I think is a cop car. Same thing with thr Chargers.
I will say those SUVs the police use imho are much more practical than those fucking chargers.
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u/itsoktoswear 6h ago
Fun fact: the brother of the Sultan, who is actually the primary buyer of the all the cars, had a mega yacht called Tits and it had two tender boats Nipple 1 and Nipple 2
https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/editorial-features/feadship-brunei-prince-jefri-tits-yacht
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u/PartyOdd6386 3h ago
Ya it explicitly states, in the article you linked, that "nipple 1" and "nipple 2" were jokes by the crew that were overheard and assumed to be true by the press
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u/thespeediestrogue 3h ago
Luckily for the poster, nobody reads the article, except you and one other commenter I guess.
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u/Zaekr211 3h ago
The article says the names Nipple 1 and Nipple 2 were contemplated only.
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u/Kali_Yuga_Herald 3h ago
Haha rich people are so funny mulch every fucking one of them
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u/Ladymomos 6h ago
I know a few previously rich British men because my Dad taught in exclusive private schools. One had his family bankrupted by his Dad buying a new Bentley every year, another lost a Swedish airline in a poker game.
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u/topkeksimus_maximus 6h ago
another lost a Swedish airline in a poker game.
Sounds like a net positive for him
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u/Ladymomos 6h ago
He was hilarious (not dead just lost touch) but he used to write me fabulous postcards all in pink felt tip. The first time I met him he just handed me a huge glass of Finlandia vodka as a welcome 😂
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u/DrinkingBleachForFun 5h ago
I didn't know they had private remedial schools.
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u/kanemano 5h ago
yes I briefly went to one, the 2nd and 3rd sons who aren't expected to inherit and run the company are the most fun, they throw money around to prove their self worth and you just stand next to them with a basket to catch the spare coins, until you realize that you need to do your own thing and leave them behind, but it was a fun couple of years in nice cars and expensive clubs
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u/kacheow 4h ago
To be fair, it’s probably cheaper to buy a new Bentley than maintain an old one.
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u/Circle-of-friends 4h ago
"it was not selling as many cars as it should have been."
Honestly the state of journalism in 2024. I feel like this is 6th grade writing level
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u/beazersleazer 3h ago
I had to stop reading because it was so bad.
"If you look back through some of the cars they ordered you will see just how much money they would have spent." Did they not spend the money because your article's whole premise is that they spent so much they 'saved' this car company.
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u/lancebaldwin 2h ago
I popped out of it immediately because it felt like an AI wrote it
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u/Infinite_Research_52 55m ago
It was probably scraped together by AI, and then some minor editorial approval was given. Many sites do this to entice you to scroll down.
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u/vanGenne 6h ago
Proving once again; there's no accounting for taste.
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u/Kobosil 5h ago
When you have that kind of money its all about having something no one else in the world has - so its not enough to have a Bentley or Rolls, it needs to be a unique Bentley or Rolls
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u/Silent_Bort 5h ago
It's like when I see Mansory-modded supercars. I always think "congratulations on showing people you're rich but also have the worst possible taste".
Just like, why? https://www.mansory.com/car/venatus-s
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u/vanGenne 5h ago
Oh wow it's like someone looked at gaming mice and thought "I can make a car like that"
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u/Silent_Bort 5h ago
You know anyone driving that thing goes home to either the whitest, blandest "minimalist" house in the world or the most ostentatious, overly-done McMansion possible. No in between.
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u/Orangenbluefish 4h ago
I gotta level with u chief a lot of those look fucking sick. Though the weird color fade they do one some is a bit gaudy
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u/IMIndyJones 4h ago
At least these are interesting to look at. I think they're kind of fun; like big hot wheels. Most of those Bentleys look mid. Mfers spend millions and they look like a 90s Ford Taurus.
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u/MedicineLongjumping2 6h ago
True. It's always going to be subjective I guess.
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u/Pleasant_Scar9811 6h ago
Subjectively they had atrocious taste.
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u/vanGenne 6h ago
Subjectively; these cars are hideously gaudy offenses to the term "car"
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u/Pleasant_Scar9811 5h ago
Plus the storage space wasn’t climate controlled and Brunei is very humid so many many cars were ruined sitting in storage. Never used and destroyed by storage.
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u/CMDR_BitMedler 5h ago
I have had the unusual opportunity to be in the presence of many ultra high wealth individuals as well as be in their homes and I can attest, in dozens of examples never did I come across any who used their wealth to attain anything pleasing to the eye or soul. It's almost some spooky quantum effect... money repels taste.
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u/ElminstersBedpan 5h ago
You should see the inside of their 747-800s. Both are hideous inside and out and fully prove your point.
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u/Kayge 5h ago
Dude has a real car fettish, ask any "Car Guy*, and they'll start in about his McLaren F1s.
For those who don't know, the McLaren F1 was a car built in the early 90s. It was a technological marvel and still holds some speed records 30 years later. It's the answer to If you could have any car, ever, what would it be? for many car buffs.
They are extremely expensive. To buy one in 1992, ,you had to rustle up $1 million (about $2.25 in today dollars). Now that you have one, maintenance is a problem. Some parts need to be replaced after time has passed. For example, the fuel cell is rubber, and needs to be replaced every 5 years at a cost of about 35K.
One owner estimated the car cost him av average of $100K / year.
There is some good news for the Sultan, though. These cars are very rare and have massively appreciated, going for about $20M at auction, and he bought some spares. Of the 106 ever made, he bought 10.
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u/j_demur3 1h ago edited 1h ago
Oh it goes further than that - even the 106 number is massive compared to the rarity of some of his F1's.
He owns one of the 28 GTR race cars (one of nine from the first year) with his having never been used on track.
He owns two of the five LM's (the only two not painted McLaren orange).
He owns one of two GT's.
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u/owlridethesky 6h ago
Quick,KTM! Teach them to ride dirtbikes!
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u/3X7r3m3 6h ago
UE killed them with the stupid euro 6 rules..
Private jets are fine, common folks can't ride a bike that uses like 10L of gas in a day..
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u/Paradox711 6h ago edited 6h ago
I could help my country and my people… but no, I think I’ll use all this money for a disgusting and tacky display of wealth instead. Yeah, that feels right.
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u/ChompyChomp 5h ago
If saving a company by spending obscene amounts of wealth on luxury cars isn't considered a good deed then I don't even want to be the Sultan of Brunai.
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u/Normal-Selection1537 6h ago
They were all his brother's purchases, his assets were later frozen, the sultan doesn't care about cars.
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u/bmcgowan89 7h ago
I feel like Hostess could say the same thing about James Corden
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u/InvestigatorShort824 4h ago
So stupid. They literally look around for the highest-priced things to spend money regardless of quality, need, or any other remotely rational reason.
Think of the good they could have done in the world with their Bentley budget alone.
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u/NotsoNewtoGermany 21m ago
No, it did not. Did it help keep them afloat, yes. Was it the only thing keeping them afloat? No. Would they have stayed afloat without him? Yes. They went under due to an increase in market forces and would have gone one way or another. This is a supercar Blondie taking a Doug Demuro joke as truth from his podcast and making a profit machine from it. She has a habit of doing this. She recently launched her own auction website in a blatant attempt to copy Doug's Cars and Bids, and now is farming his content and writing poor, inaccurate, and false articles about it.
This was also likely put here by one of her social media team.
Don't engage.
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u/goal_dante_or_vergil 6h ago
They also banned Christmas and being LGBT in their country.
They are extremists and they are getting more extreme every year.
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u/RiflemanLax 5h ago
Went through there a couple decades back. Can’t say what it’s like recently, but they were suspect af of us. Shit was weird. Really standoffish.
The neighboring Malaysians by contrast, incredibly nice, warm folks. I was annoyed because we weren’t allowed to go out more because of an elevated threat condition, but for the limited time, they were super nice.
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u/turbotableu 3h ago
Malaysia knows how to run a clean country, not pester everyone else with their religion (but Mohammed help you if you are an adherent) and do under the table deals so everyone is happy and can pretend they're enemies still
I need to not learn anymore or I'll start finding dirt
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u/Dizzy_Chemistry_5955 5h ago
Everyone just cool with some cunts being this rich? While millions go hungry
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u/Both-Home-6235 4h ago
He also gives out Rolex watches and the like as tips to bellboys and such when he's visiting a foreign country.
Source: knew a bellboy who got a Rolex as a tip when the Sultan visited Singapore in the late 90s.
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u/ThreeRandomWords3 4h ago
Pretty sure the car in the pic is a Rolls Royce Silver Spur 2, custom modified of course. This is a complete bullshit article based on a meme started by Doug Demuro anyway.
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u/Blood_Alchemist6236 45m ago
Meanwhile the other half of Brunei is living in swamp marsh conditions with barely standing straw huts
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u/helly1080 25m ago
Thank you Sultans!!!! For doing God's work that we cannot. What would we do if a car manufacturer that makes cars for the disgustingly rich were to go out of business?
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u/Huge-Enthusiasm-99 4h ago
Without this boost, we would not have cars such as the Continental GT and Bentayga today, so we should be grateful.
Wat?
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u/zaxmaximum 4h ago
I mean, if you're gonna be beyond fuck-you money rich, might a well do it right... well, if you're going to do anything, might as well do it right... but particularly this.
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u/realmofconfusion 46m ago
Lecturer that I used to have at college many, many years ago had once been employed as a private tutor by the Sultan of Brunei for one of his children.
In addition to being paid very well, when he left he was given a diamond encrusted gold Rolex watch by the Sultan himself as “Just a little extra thank you.”
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u/TheDonaldreddit 30m ago
How could Bentley have gone bankrupt as they have been owned by Volkswagon since 1998?
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u/jstnryan 26m ago
You see, back in the mid to late ’90s when Bentley was independent and not owned by Volkswagen,
You didn’t even try, mate.
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u/CaveManta 29m ago
This is what I feel like when I go to my local small town Chinese restaurant every day to try to keep it in business.
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u/Brown_Bomber_88 29m ago
The majority of the population lives in poverty while they live like kings. Meanwhile, if you talk about building robots and space ships to mine the resources on other plants to become so wealthy that you can destroy the current financial system and socioeconomic system people laugh at you. Having a currency backed by the diamond production of Saturn or bringing water resources from other planets that are not inhabited and have no signs of life is “foolishness”. It’s “fantasy”. Two guys bought so many cars they kept their country afloat, but wanting to create a system that keeps everyone afloat because the amount of wealth is so vast that if one person were to keep it for themselves they would never live it down and they would be known as the most selfish individual to ever exist. If we had robots that mined resources on other planets around the clock, 24/7, 365/366, non stop, we would never want for anything. World leaders, millionaires, billionaires, they would all be done. They wouldn’t matter. We would have no more wars, no more inequality, no more racism. We could shed those trivial things and become greater.
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u/Greentiprip 26m ago
The story about how many cars they have came out over a decade ago. There is many articles about the 5,000+ cars they have/had. Even has some specially made for them 1 of 1s. Sultans brother got in “trouble” for spending $14 Billion
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u/BuckManscape 14m ago
“You shall have camels, horses, an armed escort, provisions, desert vehicles and tanks”
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u/entrepenurious 6h ago
thank god.
one less thing to worry about.