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Five McLarens and the Bad Boys Porsche: How the Singhs blew R120m on cars

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The R120 million car fleet at the center of the Singh empire. (Graphic by Sharlene Rood/News24)
The R120 million car fleet at the center of the Singh empire. (Graphic by Sharlene Rood/News24)

Rushil and Nishani Singh blew more than R120 million on ultra-rare cars, spending cash loaned from Investec Bank and meant for road construction projects in Ghana, to assemble a fleet of cars any of which would be the envy of petrol heads everywhere.

The iconic black Porsche 964 Turbo, from the 1995 Bad Boys movie, a pristine example of one of the German marque's most famous Hollywood exports, is owned by Rushil Singh after he bought it at auction in January 2022 for a cool $1.4 million (R22 million).

They also dished out nearly R80 million for three of the rarest McLaren supercars in the world - a black P1, one of 375 in the world, a "Rushil Singh purple" Senna - named after the late F1 legend Ayrton Senna - and a track-only Senna GTR, each limited to only 500 units worldwide.

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