Richard Owen of Supercars.net recently visited the Marconi Museum in Tustin, California and discovered one of its hidden gems, a Sultan of Brunei custom Ferrari FX. Richard explains the history of this technological tour de force and gives us some insight into the bizarre story of the Sultan and his massive collection of one-offs, custom-builts, exotics and supercars that numbered in the thousands. The whole collection was estimated to have cost some $28 billion. This particular jewel started life as a Ferrari 512M but was so extensively modified that the new FX nomenclature was used. And being the Sultan, this is just number four of seven nearly identical models he had commissioned. Pininfarina redesigned the body and the Williams F1 crew was tabbed to do some mechanical tweaking.

 

the Sultan of Brunei is the ultimate Pimp of all Pimps...bow down son!!!!

 

looks like a riced out saturn.

 

No let me give you the story: It was a cold dark night in the inner city. A humble Saturn was walking alone at 3 AM down the city streets. The saturn was beaten, assaulted and raped by a pontiac trans am. This is the resulting love child.

 

lol ... that thing is hideous , maybe some HRE's would do it

 

Awww C'mon! How about a Pontiac Sunfire instead lol.

 

tis ugly

 

wow haha i didnt think it was that ugly until i saw the back. it does need a little work. love how the related forums on the car's website were "FUGLY" and "front looks like a saturn"

 

A sordid story, but from the looks of that car, it makes sense. Why would someone do that to that car? That is just horrible.

 

$28 billion on a car collection...a little excessive don't ya think??

 

What he probably meant to say, if the Sultan wants to buy the "Ferrari Factory/Company", it will cost the Sultan $28 billion.

 

sultan of wack taste

 

Having seen that car in person at the Newport Concours, I can say with authority that you are correct. The only thing missing is that the love child went on to live a hard life of abuse on the streets before coming to Marconi, as when I saw it, it looked pretty rough.

 

IMO it looks like a mix between a 300zx tt and a Teterossa. Ugly IMO just like that Pininfarina they built out of the Enzo. Hideous.

 

stupid and ugly. clearly money hasn't bought him taste (at least on this particular car choice).