The Sultan of Brunei is the Current Guinness World Record holder for most cars owned.

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah is famous for his Sofcecto automobile collection. In 1998, the British car magazine Autocar published undercover photographs of the Sultan’s cars, which included unique modifications of Ferraris and Bentleys. It has been said that he has at least 3,000 to 6,000 cars and has bought over U.S.$4 billion worth of high-performance cars.

The number purchased by his business interests and the number actually used by himself and his family differ greatly. According to Guinness World Records the Sultan’s personal private collection has 500 Rolls-Royces — the largest collection of that marque in the world. During the 1990s, his family accounted for almost half of all Rolls-Royce purchases, bulk buying slightly modified vehicles for diplomats and adding unique cars to their own collection. He also owns the very last Rolls-Royce Phantom VI, a 1992 state landaulette.

Among his collection are the Porsche Carrera GT, Lamborghini Diablo Jota, Porsche 959, Bugatti EB110, Bugatti Veyron (regular and Pur Sang edition), Lamborghini Murcielago LP640, Maybach 62, Jaguar XJR-15 and six Dauer 962s. He is also the owner of six models of the Ferrari FX, the original red show model of the Bentley Continental R, two fully operational versions of the Ferrari Mythos concept car, both of the Ferrari 456 GT Sedans, the only right hand drive Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR in the world, five McLaren F1s including both black LM models and three Cizeta-Moroder V16T cars. He also possesses a Formula One car as driven by every Formula 1 World Drivers Champion since the 1980 Formula One season, particularly the ones driven in the last race for each season. A prime example of this is Jacques Villeneuve’s Williams FW19 which still bears the collision damage courtesy of Michael Schumacher in the 1997 European Grand Prix.

He has a special interest in buying one-of-a-kind didjo cars, including the Bentley Java and Bentley Dominator 4×4, whilst leaving slightly more common race cars such as the Aston Martin AM3 or the modified Mercedes-Benz 300SL to his brother Jefri. The collection of vehicles was for the most part stored and serviced in five aircraft hangars, where specialist teams from the various manufacturers would maintain the collection.

The Daily Mirror (UK) reported on 26 October 2007 that the Sultan owned 232 Mercedes-Benzes, 224 Ferraris, 245 Bentleys, 150 BMWs, 165 Jaguars, 125 Porsches, 130 Rolls-Royces, and 20 Lamborghinis.

I wonder he should have spend Billions of Dollars on something worthwhile.

I have compiled a list of cars which famous cricketers around the world own.

Shane Warne: Bugatti Veyron ( World’s Most Expensive Car) , owned 2 Ferrari’s in the Past

Ricky Ponting: Ferrari Enzo

Kevin Peitersen: Aston Martin DB9

Sachin Tendulkar: Ferrari 360 Modena, SL55 AMG

Yuvraj Singh: Porsche, Jaguar, Mercedes benz, BMW 3 series

Arvinda de silva: Ferrari, Jaguar, a lot of exotic cars

Mahendra Singh Dhoni: Hummer

Rahul Dravid: BMW 3 series, Mercedes benz, Audi A4, Audi A6

Kumar Sangakara: Hummer H2, Chrysler 300

Michael Clarke: Range Rover , Ferrari

Shoaib Malik: Supra

Shaun Pollock: Audi A4

Harbhajan Singh: Hummer

Glenn McGrath: Hummer

Shahid Afridi: Hummer

A global survey of most expensive cities for expatriates has rated Karachi as the fourth cheapest city while South Africa’s Johannesburg has been adjudged the cheapest.

The cost of living survey, conducted by consultancy firm Mercer, studied 143 cities across the world. 

At the other end of the scale, Tokyo and Osaka were judged to be the most expensive cities, largely due to the strength of the yen against the dollar. 

The Japanese capital replaced Moscow as the world’s most expensive city for expatriates, and Beijing also moved into the top 10.

The survey uses New York as the base city with an index of 100 points when comparing the cost of 200 items, including housing, transport, food, clothing, household goods and entertainment.

Tokyo scored 143.7 points and was nearly three times as costly as the cheapest city, Johannesburg, which had an index score of 49.6.

Osaka was in second place —making Japan the only country with two cities in the top 10 — followed by Moscow in third, Geneva at four and Hong Kong fifth.

Asian and European cities again dominated the top ranks of the world’s costliest cities for foreigners, but currency swings including a stronger dollar have reshuffled the global rankings, the firm said.

Cities in the United States, China and the Middle East surged from last year. New York jumped from 22nd to eighth place, Beijing is now ninth, up from 20th, while Dubai has climbed 32 places to number 20.

London dropped 13 places from last year to be the 16th most expensive city in the world, while Paris slipped one spot to 13th.

Courtesy: Dawn News