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Who has 5000+ cars in his garage?

If you were rich enough to drive any car you wanted, absolutely any car, and money is no object, what would you go for? A Lambo, Bugatti, Merc, Aston, how about something outrageous like a Formula 1 car.

But what if you were truly rich, not just “getting by” like that Bill Gates guy, but truly rich. The Sultan of Brunei is the richest man on earth; he is not counted on rich lists because he does not earn his money it comes from his tiny country’s oil reserves which are basically his. Estimates of his wealth pop up from time to time but the truth is no one has any idea how much cash he has.

So which car do you think the richest man in the world drives, well if you said Lambo, you would have been correct, and if you said Aston that would have been right as well, if you guessed F1 Race-car you would have been nearly right, he owns every F1 championship winning car for the last thirty years.

These cars fit very nicely into his garage which is a bit bigger than your garage at home; it has to be to be able to accommodate the estimated 5000 personal vehicles owned by the Sultan. If he picked one car to drive down to the supermarket for a pint of milk each day, it would take him thirteen and a half years to use each one.

He seems to quite like the Rolls Royce range he has over 500 hundred of those, if you tried unsuccessfully to buy a Rolls during the 1990’s that would be because he accounted for over half of their entire sales for that decade.

His collection which may well be far more than 5000 vehicles is estimated to have cost over $4 billion, filling them all up may be a little expensive at $4 a gallon, that is estimated at a minimum of half a million dollars.

Those that voted for the Lambo will be happy to know that he has 20 of those, but he seems to prefer the sleeker appearance of the Ferrari’s as he opted for 367 of those, Jag’s are nice little run-arounds, all 177 of them, as are the 362 Bentleys.

He also likes to not just buy boring, run of the mill BMW’s (185) he also likes something a bit more exotic such as Bentley Dominator 4X4 and the Bentley Java, Ferrari FX (6) the worlds only right hand drive Merc CLX-GTR and the Cizeta Moroder V16T (3)

I personally would not want to be burdened with the stress of having to select a car each day so I will stick with my two door Kia.

Bugatti Veyron Vs Jet Fighter Drag Race Video

It would be every 12 year old pubescent boys dream come true, a flat out drag race between the world’s fastest production sports car and a state of the art military jet fighter. Well maybe it’s every pubescent 45 year old boys dream come true as well.

The British TV show Top Gear decided to put the Bugatti Veyron into the ultimate test of supercar power. It had been raced before against the Mclaren SLR, the Yamaha R1 and the Audi R8, but this is the real test against a 27,000 bhp killing machine.

The fighter chosen was the RAF’s Eurofighter Typhoon, a twin-engine canard-delta strike fighter multi-role combat aircraft that has proved it’s self by scrambling to intercept a Russian Tupolev Tu-95 invading British airspace.

It seems like a no-brainer the incredible thrust of the massive twin engines should leave the Bugatti Veyron looking up its after-burner. But there’s a catch, the race is flat out down a runway for one mile. But at the end the car must pull a u-turn and race back to the starting line … and so does the jet.

The Bugatti Veyron is well equipped with a W-16 engine that’s two V6’s nailed together with 16-cylinders that can put out an astonishing 1001 bhp and propel the car at jet like speed for 0 to100mph in just 5.6 seconds, 0 to 60 takes just 2.4 cheek crushing seconds.

TopGear presenter Richard Hammond must race the mile down the runway as fast as he can, then make a “legal” u-turn without running off the end, and race back. The jet pilot has to pull the fighter straight up at the end of the runway climb as rapidly as he can to his turning height of one mile then slam the plane back towards the ground and level out to cover the length of the runway back to the starting line.

The tale of the tape

	Bugatti Veyron	Eurofighter Typhoon
Cost	$1.8 million	$134 million
Fuel consumption	8 MPG	18 Gallons per mile
Top Speed	253 MPH	1,500 MPH
Power	1,001bhp	27,000bhp
Engine	W16 (=2xV8)	2X EJ200 afterburner turbos
Weight	4,160 lb	51,809 lb
Machine Gun	None	1x 27 mm Mauser BK-27 cannon
Air-to-Ground missiles	None	AGM-88 HARM
Optional Blonde Supermodel	One	None

Now place your bets on who will win this ultimate boys drag race

Bugatti Veyron: Stereo designed for 250 miles per hour

Interesting article here about a special, usually overlooked feature in the Bugatti Veyron: a Burmester stereo which still plays at 250 miles per hour!Here's why an off-the-shelf stereo from Best Buy wouldn't have done the trick: The Burmeister CD player alone is constructed to operate without a single skip at 250 miles per hour. Sybarites adds that the control panel is designed to be seen at

Bugatti Type 57C Atalante Coupe: Greatest barn find ever!

A 1938 Bugatti Type 57C Atalante Coupe is up for auction!Stored since 1962, this 1938 Bugatti Type 57C Atalante Coupe, bodied by Gangloff of Colmar with Stelvio, is a masterpiece of craftsmanship and history. It will be offered for sale to the well-heeled public this coming June 3rd at the Greenwich Concours D'Elegance, with an expected haul of $300K-400K.Related news: GermanCarBlog, P4MR,

Bugatti: Head Thomas Bscher resigned!

Well, most automotive websites and blogs ignored the news last week that Dr. Winterkorn rejected to build a second model or a full product line-up for Bugatti and just went on to report about the plans of Thomas Bscher to build exactly that.Today we have the news for you that Bugatti's head Thomas Bscher resigned from his job and we guess that the dispute about the product future of Bugatti