We appraised the Sultan of Brunei's car collection! 

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 😂

This guy was the ultimate forza boss

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.

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

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.

Being an Australian and knowing there are so many amazing cars never made in right hand drive this video makes me smile a bit.

John Tamarian should basically put the tagline of curated as "I had the opportunity...." 🤣

This video could be 3 hours long, surprised it’s only 16 minutes.

The astounded look on Ficarra's face talking about some of these cars is priceless...

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"

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

I hope someday we all get to see all the cars documented, one of the greatest automotive mysteries would be solved

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!

Imagine what would happen to the collector car market if he sold them all off at one time.

Brunei if you are viewing, I'll pay my own way to visit and tour your collection and share for all of RU-vid to remove any rumours.

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.

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!

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!!!

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 RU-vid. I'd love to see someone like Doug Demuro to get his hands on one.

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.

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

Thank you guys! been waiting for a review of his collection since I am a kid, mind blowing!

I love the appraisal series, you guys should makes these videos 30-45 minutes. Could listen to this all day

holy crap 2300 cars is far more than i ever expected. most impressive.

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

Loved this episode!!! Waited a while for this one!! You guys should do an appraisal of DavCars collection next!!

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!

Crazy collection! The Stutz factory still exists in Indianapolis, it’s rentable art space for art studios, the building is beautiful

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!

Amazing video! I was very interested when I saw that you guys appraised the world’s largest car collection.

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.

Vinwiki daily content, I'm in heaven!

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.

There it is!!! I posted about doing this video for months!! Glad to see it

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.

Thanks guys that was fun.

That list is insane. Not only the cars but the amount each of some of them is ridiculous!

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'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?

Love these appraisals videos, and would love to see one covering the Collier collection! Local billion-dollar collection here in Naples!

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

You should appraise my collection next. It's easy I have 0 cars.

I could listen to ficarra all day long, big love for this guy

Ficarra looks great! Good for him!

I’d love a Bentley Dominator, or to see what interesting cars he perhaps got from Land Rover as well, would love to learn more about his collection

BIllion's of dollars of exotics rotting away in the jungle. So sad.

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.

amazing collection...a lucky guy for sure

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. 😎

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 🙌🏻

Awesome! I requested this one on the Jay Leno video!

Thanks guys I asked for this story couple months ago 😊

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..😂

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)

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.

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.

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.

And I felt dumb for having around 200 toy cars...

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.

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.

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??

I usually don't leave comments but this Is f****** awesome.

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

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

This is the one we’ve been waiting for

I would love to see a JP Performance evaluation, interesting collection and hard to judge because alot are tuned/ modified

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.

If this included every single car, it would be hours long.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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 .

It’s not about the money The cars are priceless Almost

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

Love the variety of one offs just for him

This is my favorite video ever… and I’m not even done watching it yet!!! 😂

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. 😅

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.

Thank you for showing us new places that are ripe for La Revolucíon

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 😮

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.

How do we get Ed to Brunei on tour?

I’m with John on the Black F40 LM 🔥Always wanted to see a picture 😢

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.

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.

This dude sounds like a real life version of “The Dictator” movie. Great video guys! Thanks for all your work!

The S73 wagon has to be one of the craziest in the collection 🤯

I’ve seen a few of these cars at Marconi Museum when I was wrenching on their forklift. This is really freaking cool

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

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!

that W140 S73T is AWESOME!!!

This needs a part 2 or more

When hoarding goes exponentially wrong

Is the collection bigger than Shmee's?

Please do a complete long version of the video