The fact that they bought this inconceivable number of cars, built massive parking garages for them to sit in, and didn’t even bother to temperature control them… It’s just a strange insight into how sick money and power can make people. It’s hoarding taken to an unimaginable degree 😐

Hundreds of insanely rare cars : no problem. Temperature control their storage : UNTHINKABLE.

I can't help thinking about the law of diminishing returns. I am sure it feels amazing buying your first Rolls Royce. It probably still feels great buying your seventh. But at the 100th point, I'd be feeling pretty empty inside.

I think James is the only person who can talk about a multibillion dollar car collection while wearing a Taco Bell hat.

The best part is that selling a single car of that collection could pay for a great temperature control system

Hassan gave his 5 billion dollar car correction the same treatment my nephews give their old hot wheels.

It was actually his brother who owned a lot of the outrageous things including the Luxury Yacht named "Tits" . The sultan's brother Prince Jefri once allegedly kept a paid harem of up to 40 women, and was accused of embezzling $14.8 billion. He entertained women on his luxury yacht called “Tits” which had lifeboat tenders named “Nipple 1” and “Nipple 2”.

Imagine being as lucky as those dealers. I'd give so damn much to spend an hour in that collection lmao

Even if you are someone who hemorrhages money, I can't understand the logic behind hoarding a dozen or more of the same damn car. This is a perfect example of when too much money corrupts the mind.

This has the same energy to me like the one spoiled kid at school that got every toy he wanted but after a week he loses interest in it and just tossed it out to get the next new shiny toy from mom and dad

I got a 1972 Ford Econoline as a grad gift from my dad, and got to restore it with him. I loved that van. Money can't buy happiness my dudes.

What I found sad is I honestly doubt the whole 5 Billion dollar collection gave them even a fraction of the pleasure a true car nut would get from buying, say, his favourite 20 year old $5,000 classic, restoring it himself and cossetting it. Funny old world.

And as a kid I begged for a two dollar allowance $2 - worked my butt off - and this man gets a billion for living at age 18 yikes 😬 😱

This channel has grown so quick and deserves all the success! I really enjoyed that episode and man you say it as it is! Good humour 😎

as a bruneian, i can agree that our majesty makes car lovers go crazy by locking all of the rich cars away

this is what happens when infinite money meets infinite stupidity

The man is playing Gran Turismo in real life, he's got an infinitely large garage full of expensive and rare cars that he's never driven and has almost certainly forgotten that he owns.

Such a shame that most, if not, all those cars being locked away in a garage will probably not ever see the light of day or to ever be driven. Hate to see some of them are rotting away like that.

Lol love the subtle “I think you should leave” reference at 4:44

I’ve always imagined where most of the hypercars were being stored and knew it had to be a oil sultan but this is just insane. If their entire collection went up for sale tomorrow you’d see so many KZfaq videos of straight up unicorn cars driving around that it’d make peoples heads spin. The fact that they just bought all these things and let them rot is atrocious but in all honesty we’d all do the same thing if it were possible. Ya know, except for the letting them rot part.

I have never had a greater urge to steal from someone in my life

James: "Whats the point of having all of those cars and not driving them" Me feeling guilty looking at my garage in forza.

Thank you for the Bulk and Skull reference. That made my day.

Triples are best! Gotta love the casual "I Think You Should Leave" reference 🔥

I grew up in Brunei and went to a few car auctions in the early-mid 2000's. There had been various auctions, not just of cars, but other goods too,. There were cars that had been left out exposed to the elements for years in a large lot, including various models of super cars. I recall seeing a Ferrari F40 that was in really poor condition with sun-bleached paint, cracked dashboard and mold in the interior. Some had been at least stored under cover, so weren't too badly damaged. When walking around one lot I came across a rotting hovercraft and what appeared to be a replica of the car from Knight Rider, complete with matching interior. I know a few people that bought cars, including a basically unused Jaguar XJS and a 1990's Range Rover that was extremely high-spec and must've been part of a custom order. The latter had incredibly low mileage, but was dirty and filled with sand inside. According to the people at the auction, it had been taken out to a beach and used like a dune-buggy for an afternoon one day and then just abandoned until retrieved by the staff. The cars were sold on the condition that they couldn't be exported from Brunei, but most expatriates that bought cars simply drove over the border into Malaysia and arranged export from either Miri or Kota Kinabalu.

This just makes me incredibly sad. As a car enthusiast I dream of owning just one such car. Seeing those cars just rotting away, never driven, never seeing daylight, not even being shown in a musuem, I have no words for it. It's just a disgrace... I swear the day I'll get to buy one of my dream cars, it alone will give me more joy and smiles all those cars together brought to that family...

This collection makes Jay Leno's look modest. At least Jay takes care of his vehicles.

When he said Mercedes CLK GTR I was flabbergasted, that's literally my dream car till this day😭

Imagine being an executive or an engineer working at these high end companies and talking these guys and hearing their insane ramblings of what they wanted to buy. They probably wanted some absolutely insane shit and were told no many times. Like “No sir, we will not paint a picture of you having sex with Aphrodite on the hood of a gold plated Ferrari f-50, there’s no amount of money you could pay us to make us do that.”

"More than one thing can be a bummer" is my new...

I thought the Vin Diesel quote will be "You never had your car" but "nothing's sadder than locking a beast on the cage" makes most sense

I remember in Viper Racing for the PC, the “Exotic” car was literally the Bugatti EB 110 in that SAME paint scheme!

If you think about it, most of those cars only drove about 1,000 miles fewer than their maximum lifespan anyway! But for real, yeah that's painful to think about for so many reasons at once.

my dad used to work at the maintenance department of the sultan's palace as a supervisor and i spent my entire childhood listening to these stories and I confirm most of them are true. Despite having the ability to spend an astronomical amount of money for themselves as a royal family, we still manage to live tax free, get free health care and electricity.

When I was serving on board the USS Berkeley DDG 15 the ship was steaming off the coast of Brunei when we received flash radio traffic from the US embassy that the Sultan had invited the ship to diner with the Sultan.......... We dropped anchor and took the Captains gig and the motor whale boat along with the RIB to shore and we were treated to a beach party/bbq compliments of the Sultan of Brunei the year was 1986

Isn't a typical episode of this show?! I want every other episode to be like this one! Daaamn i will watch it again...

The pain in the people who worked so hard top build those amazing pieces of art must be tough AF

love this series so much - mv agusta is another interesting brand which would work for up to speed! lots of history, iconic race bikes, the most beautiful things on two wheels

The swipe graphic of American Football was for me and I love you.

Haha I love the humor added in these productions, great mixing Great vids, I've been subscribed for a while now

Such a waste. Imagine being an engineer developing that semi auto box for a road car, for it to just be left to rot away.

On the bright side, you could say the Sultan was subsidizing exotic car makers. Some of these brands might not have survived if it wasn't for his purchases. Perhaps the prototypes he commissioned even served as valuable R&D for production cars. Better to make 200 cars and let 6 rot in the jungle, than let the design fade away in a Pininfarina sketchbook.

I think I have to say that, maybe, prolly this is my most favorites show on KZfaq yo. But on a serious note. I really do like it's factual content with the comical delivery.

It’s like the the final boss of “I’ll get it running one day NOT FOR SALE.”

Then there's Audi who keeps a pristine garage of 1-off race cars, meticulously serviced, and let Ken Block go ham in legendary rally cars😍

9:42 YES!!! He said it! 😂🤣

What amazes me as well is, those guys wasted so much money for supercars, yet none for a private racetrack to use them to their fullest (Which is where I'd start, and do the airconditioned garrages next to the racetrack) . I guess for people with money it's like books, buying them and reading them are two distinct and separate hobbies :( .

This makes me sick. There’s so much good that could have been done with the resources wasted on these cars rotting away. It’s like a dramatically worse version of buying too many groceries and watching them wilt in the fridge. This family certainly supported a lot of artisans, engineers, and craftsmen by ordering all these cars, but they could have used their resources to have those same people build more useful things. Heck, even if they still used their money to buy all those cars but lent them out for driving experiences-inspiring some kid with a chance of thrashing or wrecking one of those cars is better than letting them sit in a garage, rusting and peeling, damned for their entire existences never to hit the road. The 0-mile odometers part is sickening.

This video was painful, but informative and really well scripted, there might have been some improvised parts so that’s really cool.

Nothing is beyond repair. Especially priceless cars.

That "beat around the bush" really threw me off a second there!

Such a shame all those legendary automotive works of art will never get to be what some engineers poured their hearts into making it for.

He also got the rarest of all Skyline GT-R, the R32 HKS Zero R. Reportedly only 4 were made. I live Miri, Sarawak, Borneo Territory of Malaysia, and Brunei is just one border checkpoint away. We used to import JDMs through Brunei and some Bimmers and Benz too. Nissan Patrol are all Bruneian plate numbers as it was never sold in Malaysia.

the fact that someone parked them all is amazing!

And now they're about to hit 7 MILLION SUBS CONGRATS

People like this make me feel that much more lucky that we have someone in the automotive community like Jay Leno

that Bentley Dominator is just proof of how money can't buy taste, ugh

Just outside the gate of Kandahar airfield Is Kandahar city, Afghanistan. There’s a massive junkyard full of sports cars and large suvs that appear to be perfectly fine just left for the dust to take over. They looked like they were there for years and that was 2011. Crazy

You got me with the Arnold Palmer 😂.

If only the Sultans kids would have started a charity adoption program for super cars that needed a home! I would have gladly adopted one or two of those poor, neglected autos. And I would have loved them like I had bought them myself.

I'm thinking "The Italian Job" needs a Brunei remake boys.

Bruneian here!! Proud!! 🫰🏻

This had me crying and twitching like a Sultan when they hear the word no

My uncle worked as Prince Jefri’s London fixer. He managed his house and the staff there. Just in case he decided he wanted to visit London for a few days. The furniture in the house was renewed every so often. My uncle would occasionally give us some of the furniture that was being disposed of. So my working class family home in North England was just filled with ridiculously valuable rich dude furniture all the time. £20000 chairs and desks would just be rotated out for new ones. I was too young to understand the level of opulence and waste at the time. But now I think about it, it’s pretty wild.

Prince Jefri basically single handedly funded the R&D departments at Rolls Royce, Bentley, Ferrari, and McLaren in the 90's.

I like how the jungle skyscrapers are actually the Chicago corn cobs from Marina City.

i can attest to this. lived and grew up in Brunei. Also some of the cars made it here to New Zealand on the downlow 😏

I want a whole documentary on this, but from these guys, in this fashion. Loved this

Nice to see we finally got an up to speed on James

we need up too speed back!!!!!!! im over here re freakin watching !! lol

The Past Gas episode on the Sultan of Brunei was great!

Do an up to speed on Tatra finally. They have everything. 3rd oldest car manufacturer, being copied by Porsche, Dakar trucks, Mad Max trucks, starring in Kanye video, big aircooled V8s, killing nazis. Like what more do you want?

they have talked about ultra rare super-cars, and we already know they have some other gems in there like the Zero R R32 or something along the lines of a TME rs

I just figured out that I watch this channel for the last 35 years....and that I subscribed couple days ago...

"Triples are better", then a png of Bob Odenkirk? A random I Think You Should Leave sketch reference on Donut?! Now THAT's rare.

It would be a pretty perfect action movie style heist to snatch some cars, load up some cargo planes and fly em up to the states. Though, if anyone does, I get the CLK GTR hardtop and one of the 959s for coming up with the idea

Finally a video on this treasure of a garage. I've seen a one-week-old photo of the Nazca on a tow truck out of Brunei. Looks like someone has decided to save my favourite supercar ever😍😍😍

Hey that blue FX he showed a picture of is in my families museum. The Marconi Automotive Museum, thats kinda neat.

would be a exquisite idea to go to Brunai and do a 'barn find' series DONUT!! all those hrsprs gotta be freeed!

It’s probably true that the Royals’ favourite car brand is the Rolls Royce. In Brunei we would see the Sultan going to public events/visits in a classic Rolls Royce or the Brabus G65. It is sad that a lot of the other cars won’t be seen ripping the tarmac tho.

I mean, I've done way too much research on this collection and it's literally unfathomable. Buying one of those cars for the average person is an enormous sum of money, and they just bought them like hot cakes. The fact that they were literally able to have manufacturers design and develop cars specifically for them that didn't exist yet is unreal, especially with companies like Ferrari. They had a Bentley SUV decades before Bentley technically even made an SUV. The fact that they bought over fifty of the exact same car is nuts. I'd give so much to be able to spend even such a short amount of time in those garages and it's sad that they are decaying and just simply abandoned like that. Not that I condone this spending. I love cars and if I had crazy money I'd probably buy more cars than I technically need, but buying 75 of the exact same Rolls-Royce is ludicrous. There are people in economic crisis and you just keep buying millions of dollars worth of cars like mad. Sad to see. Disappointing that incredible and rare cars like the F1 and the EB110 and especially those special editions made exclusively for them are never shown to the public and shared with the people who dream of owning cars like that someday, and especially that they are now just rotting in some warehouses.

this is one video where James' over-exaggerated energy is completely suitable, even understated.

“You know this kid hurt animals” 😂😂😂 I know the type, you can just tell

Fun fact Sultan of Brunei and our beloved Sultan Qaboos of Oman (which passed away 2 years ago) used to gift each other rare cars. Our Sultan has a collection too not as big as the one in Brunei but definitely has some gems. Plus they r well taken care of in under ground parking lot, AC, wash, recharge etc

As a supercar guy this gives me extreme pain

dayumm,thx to share some story of my country to ur fans,i like it

Your first special car is unforgettable. But when you are now on your several hundred, it tends to feel less and taste like ash. The curse of excess where the thrill of the buy is more than the ownership. Hence the constant pursuit of another in an attempt to obtain the same joy as your first. Such is the balance of nature.

Man I almost couldn’t give this video a like. So damn depressing… But I gotta show some love for the boys at *Donut* 🔥🔥

James you have such a unique and hilarious way of narrating! Don’t ever change your style man! Definitely enjoy all you put into donut!!

"You know this kid hurt animals" 🤣

Hassanal is the real life Aladeen from the movie Dictator 😂

Remember a Wheels magazine (Australia) article around 97. The cars I remember the most where the Ferrari 456 station wagons, these weren't coupe based 2 door shooting brake style but actual 4 door sedan based style station wagons.

It is amazing that having so much money he could only think on consuming instead of creating

I love this guys humour

This guys takes “Triples is best” to the absolute extreme

Congratulations on 6 million guys. What absolute legends to achieve that milestone! Good luck and Godspeed to the future of Donut

I've been there. I'm a dive instructor and marine conservationists who worked all through Malaysia and Indonesia for my 20s. I decided to have a visit during some time off, and my big take away was "Why here!?". Like, as a kid I always imagined they had a kick ass private track or something. Nope, just the usual dodgy SE Asia roads and you can cross the whole place in like 3 hours.

Great and interesting episode! 👍🏼 Greetings from germany!

Bro i never imagine you actually goin to talk about my country🤣 big fan of your channel

They singlehandedly kept Rolls Royce and Bentley (and i believe Lambo too) afloat during the 90s. Their story is fascinating (for the wrong reasons). For someone who loves cars, a lot of it reads like a horror story. Jeffri was done in for corruption charges or something along the lines so that is why his collection was allowed to be viewed by outsiders. Due to those charges he also is no longer allowed to purchase the latest cars and half of them are literally rotting away in that storage facility (some high (low?)lights include turning 300 S600s into a reef). That's why his collection appears to have stopped at 90's Need For Speed Nirvana. The Sultan himself apparently is still adding to his collection and his collection has rarely been seen by outsiders. So if he's still doing it, I wonder how many secret Chirons, Koenigseggs and Paganis he has. And apparently, they are so inbred that you could add up all their IQ together (according to a diplomat who had frequent dealings with them) and it still wouldn't equal a normal person. Edit: I read a ton of articles (and a few books) and spoke to a few people about 7 years ago regarding the duo (and their spawn), their story is a cautionary tale in wanton excess. Some cars did escape from prison however; one of, to explain their "awesome" taste, would be a grey F40 which was finished with a full Testarossa interior. So all that weight reduction, completely wasted. And IIRC Hakeem hates driving manual or something like that, so that's why they got Prodrive (I thought it was Williams too...) to develop the semi-manual shift. 🥴