Actress Bo Derek once quipped, "Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping." Someone who would most likely agree with her is 21-year-old Dhiaa Al-Essa, a Saudi Arabian Engineering student and millionaire playboy with a collection of over 30 exotic supercars worth more than �4.5 million (US$7.3 million).
Al-Essa has recently taken delivery of his thirty-third exotic, the first Ferrari 599 GTO worth �345,000 (US$557,000). In his own words:
"I've been so excited about the Ferrari 599 GTO � I have had to wait six months for it to arrive. It's a limited edition car with more technology that pretty much any other car in the world � and it's the fastest ever Ferrari. My favourite car used to be the Mercedes McLaren SLR but now it's the 599. It's the best ever, simply amazing � I love it."
His collection includes a �350,000 (US$565,000) Ferrari SA Aperta and a �255,000 (US$411,700) Ferrari F430 Scuderia Spider 16M; both the last of the line. Al-Essa also owns several other Ferraris as well five Porsches, three Lamborghinis, two Rolls-Royces and a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren.
This latest acquisition is a stop-gap measure until he receives his 22nd birthday present: a Koenigsegg Agera and a Bugatti Veyron, both worth �1.6 million (US$2.6 million) a piece. Al-Essa concludes:
"I love speed, but the limit in Saudi Arabia is 75 mph (121 km/h) so I'm pretty limited. When the Bugatti arrives I hope to take it to Germany where you can drive as fast as you can on parts of the autobahn."
By Tristan Hankins
Source: Swsn & Metro / Photos: Ferrari
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