Some of the Biggest Car Collectors In The World

Fashion mogul and style exemplar, Ralph Lauren may be best known forhis “Polo” design but in the world of hot engines and metallic sensations, hisall-red car collections have always been a sight to behold each time they open for exhibition.


Speed, style and beauty are the highest forms ofvanity and this eccentric combination perfectly conceptualized Lauren’s epiccollection of Ferrari’s, Alfa Romeo roadster’s, Bugatti, Mercedes, Bentley,Jaguar, McLaren F1 and many others comprising a total of more than 60 cars.This amazing collection is 98% red in color and are laid on an all-white platform raised on a specially-done NYC garage carpeted in all-black.

Jay Leno

Move over Oprah and Conan, tonight’s show is all about Jay Leno. A famoustalk show celebrity, his car collection is quite astounding as is his Tonight Show. His collections are usually made of cars that you would never expect in a million years to still be working up to this day. From 200 cars bearing perfectly maintained a 1909 Baker Electric, a 1931 8-liter Bentley, a 1909 Stanley Steamer, a 1934 Phantom II from Rolls Royce, a 1927 Duesenberg Model X and a 1925 Hispano-Suiza plus 22 steam-powered vehicles and 25 classic cars, it is no wonder where Mattel’s Hot Wheels get their inspiration.

Ken Lingenfelter

Rivaling Jay Leno‘s ethereal collection, the U.S. based owner of Lingenfelter Performance Engineering also created quite a collection with 20 Lamborghini Reventon’s on the top of the list. He has more than 150 American muscle cars to his name and amazing collections of Corvettes, Mustangs, Bugatti, Porsche’s and other sensational items he can get his hands on. No wonder, he needed a 40,000 square foot building in Michigan for a garage.

Jay Kay

Apart from collecting hats, Jamiroquai’s front man Jason Luiz Cheetham (famously known as Jay Kay) also has a not-so-secret attraction to cars. This Grammy-winning English-born singing sensation has amassed quite a collection of at least 68 cars (last counted) including a number of Porsche’s, Ferrari’s, Rolls Royce’s, Lamborghini’s, Mercedes, Bugatti’s, Maserati, Chevy, Aston Martin, among others. He even owns one of Coco Chanel’s Mercedes 600.

 Gerard Lopez

The renowned chairman of the Lotus F1 Team, this Luxembourg-born businessman co-owned Genii Capital and Mangrove Capital Planters, a top-rated venture capital business firm that specializes in technology like Skype.

He is also the managing director of CS Fola Esch, which is a football club. A self-made entrepreneur, he is definitely more famous for his amazing car collectionrecently shown to Britain’s Top Gear. Amassing quite a plethora of pixel-perfect vintage ponies and muscle hot rods to racing cars, he has a Porsche,Peugeot, Bugatti and other Euro-exotic sounding car maker’s names on his list.