15 INCREDIBLE Car Garages

billionaires and the super rich are building cutting-edge garages to fit their massive car collections let's take a look at 15 incredible car garages number 15 the porsche design tower when you think of a garage you typically expect it to be on the ground floor with easy access to the street or perhaps underground but what if you live in the penthouse of an apartment block it usually involves parking your cars quite some distance from your front door but in 2016 porsche announced their first venture in real estate and they had a solution for the problem faced by billionaires around the world known as the porsche design tower it's the world's first drive-in apartment block and features an 11-car garage in the penthouse on the 56th floor this requires the use of a purpose-built 8 000 pound capacity vehicle elevator system called the deservator that serves all of the apartments and is named after the engineer who created it the and a 32.5 million dollar penthouse has 2 200 square feet of dedicated garage space along with two sky garages and ensures that no longer do you have to walk through a building to get to your home and no matter which floor you live on you can drive right up to it the tower actually has three of these elevators to prevent cues from building up along with three passenger elevators for those without a ride security cameras ensure that only registered vehicles can enter and there's a 24-hour maintenance crew on call just in case your car breaks down when you're inside number 14 jay leno's big dog garage jay leno is of course most famous for having been the host of nbc's the tonight show between 1992 and 2014 but since then he's been hosting his own show called jay leno's garage this wasn't simply something pitched to him by a network though because he's a renowned gearhead and has one of the largest and most impressive collections of cars anywhere in the world he has reported 286 vehicles which includes 169 cars and 117 motorbikes and first began collecting them a few years after buying his first in 1964. his particular interest is in cars dating from the 1940s and is believed to have almost 100 cars from that time period and he also has a number of one-of-a-kind vehicles including a 1914 detroit electric car that's been updated for modern times with the inclusion of air conditioning and bluetooth connectivity he has 30 convertibles nearly 50 coupes and several rare cars all of which means that his entire collection is estimated to be worth easily in excess of 50 million dollars of course when you have so many incredible cars you have to have somewhere equally as impressive to show them off leno's garage which cost several million dollars to construct is bigger than the average u.s family home and there's so much work involved in maintaining the venue that he is a full-time garage manager number 13 the car dock lift garages can take up a lot of real estate especially on properties and urban areas where space is at a premium but what can you do if you want to have plenty of room inside your house for the family but also want some more safe to keep your car well if you have a spare fifty thousand dollars then the latest product from a swiss manufacturer called car dock would well be the solution by using a hydraulic system that can hold weights of up to 30 tons they are built to measure car elevators that allow owners to discreetly store their vehicles beneath the driveway everything is operated by an electric key fob and takes just five days to be fully installed the elevator itself can function as the underground garage or as some owners choose to do it can simply be the entrance to a much larger space it's an ingenious way of making a most of the land that's available and the cars are kept under a higher level of security than if they were left in the driveway or a ground level garage if that's not enough the company also has another product called the car turn 360 which is a turntable that can be used to ensure you never have to reverse your car out of the driveway ever again number 12 emirates national auto museum shikhamad bin hamdan al-nayan is one of the sons of the founding father of the united arab emirates and as well as playing an important part in ruling the region he's also famous for amassing one of the largest car collections on earth in fact his assortment of vehicles became so large that he could no longer keep them all in a private facility and to be able to keep his passion alive he opened the emirates national auto museum to store and exhibit all of the special cars he's managed to acquire located on the island of alpha daisy the museum is a huge custom-built white pyramid but even it isn't big enough to put every vehicle he owns on the approach to the museum you'll see the mobile home in the shape of the globe and the biggest mobile home in the world on two wheels that looks just like jabba's flying palace in return of the jedi inside there's a further 400 vehicles that includes a mercedes s-class in every color of the rainbow a moon buggy a mercedes on monster truck wheels a giant land rover that's more than five-story talls and countless other custom designs there's no other collection like this usually most of the cars are on display to visitors mainly because there's not enough time in the world for him to actually drive all of them number 11 the glickenhaus garage james glickenhaus had a successful career as a screenwriter producer and director in the 80s and 90s and while he hasn't had much involvement with hollywood since then he invested his fortune into his own car production company and along with it an incredible car collection the scuderia cameron glickenhaus is about an hour from new york in an unassuming building that used to be a beverage warehouse from the outside you'd have no idea what was contained within but the moment the doors open you find yourself in a shrine to car design of the past century clicking house has a particular affinity to ferraris and has several rare ones such as a 166 spider corsa a bright yellow 67 ferrari 206 dyno competition and a selection of italian manufacturers endurance vehicles from the 60s there's also a model j dusenberg that was owned by the queen of yugoslavia a 1930s stutz dv32 that was used in the great gatsby and countless others that have collectively been valued in excess of 50 million dollars amazingly every single vehicle in the garage is licensed for use on the streets and has a new york license plate and glickenhaus often takes them out for a spin while the garage itself is decorated with another incredible collection of motoring memorabilia from across the decades number 10 the sultan of brunei's collection the 29th sultan of brunei hassanal bokaya has the largest collection of cars in the world but are estimated to be worth in excess of a jaw-dropping 5 billion dollars he made his fortune from the development of oil and gas fields and he has dedicated a large portion of it to cars to his greatest passion amazingly his collection contains more than 7 000 vehicles which include at least 600 rolls-royces 550 mercedes benzes and 450 ferraris these aren't just the original models either as the sultan has had each one adapted to his specific needs ferrari for example built 1315 f-40s to celebrate the company's 40th anniversary between 1987 and 1992 the sultan is known to have bought at least 11 of them there was a problem though because the f-40s were only produced as left-hand drive vehicles they were all the famous ferrari red the sultan had them converted to be right-hand drive and also change the color of them and not content with the power delivered by most famous supercar manufacturer in the world he arranged for performance enhancements too he's done similar with his collection of mclaren f1s and guys it keeps them on display in a dedicated facility there the vehicles are arranged by make and model and it's said that anyone lucky enough to be able to look around would find it impossible to see everything even if they were there all day number nine the fleetwood auto salon steve plunkett from ontario canada became obsessed with catalogs from a young age and now has the leading collection of cadillacs in the world he has 86 vehicles made by the company which date from between 1907 and 2000 and not content simply owning them he's also built a custom garage to display them in all their glory he actually has several garages of course but the most prized vehicles are kept in the fleetwood auto salon he modeled the garage interior after the ballroom from the waldorf astoria hotel in new york which is where cadillac used to host its auto shows in the 1930s he's definitely managed to recreate the magic that must have been experienced as wealthy customers perused the latest designs that were parked up on persian rugs and the 12 cadillacs on show are incredibly rare and unique he has for example a 19 foot long cadillac convertible coupe only one ever made and a custom-built 1949 cadillac coupe de ville prototype that was never intended to be sold and was only made to show off at the transport unlimited show at the waldorf astoria in 1949 after 600 000 people came to just see that one car cadillac were convinced of its viability and rushed it into production later that year even though the cars in the garage are unbelievably valuable this doesn't stop plunkett from actually enjoying them and driving them on the local streets he says the older ones aren't particularly comfortable at speeds of more than 55 miles an hour though but they have an amazing solid feel that modern cars haven't yet been able to replicate we are constantly adding more people to the top fives production team to bring you all the best content be sure to subscribe with notifications on and hit the like button number eight jk's cars jk is best known for being the lead singer of jamiroquai but apart from music his real passion is collecting cars he's had more than 100 vehicles and still owns more than 50 of them but this is no ordinary collection because he's obsessed with both style and speed and has some of the fastest and unusual cars to have ever been made among his collection is for example a ferrari 275 gtb that's worth at least three million dollars a three hundred thousand dollar mclaren 675 lt a three million dollar ferrari la ferrari and a purple lamborghini diablo se30 jota that's worth around a million bucks as proof that he's a true car connoisseur and not just flash with his cash he has several that he bought simply for the joy of driving which would hardly be on most people's wish list these include a 25 000 volvo 850r a bmw 850 csi and strangely an abarth 1000 he has a dedicated garage space to keep his collection and while he often takes each one out for a drive he's also an investor in vehicles and regularly puts part of collections up for auction to allow himself to buy something else number seven tom gonzalez's garage as the former owner of e-commerce site commerce one tom gonzalez was in for a big payday when he finally sold his stake in the company with his fortune he turned his attention to his passion for cars and not only built up an impressive collection but also built an equally as impressive and unbelievable garage to keep them in on his estate near lake tahoe and nevada he has a huge motorbike garage that amazingly contains a hundred pristine bikes that have never been registered and have never been ridden if you think there's a noticeable lack of cars in the garage however that's because he keeps his prized possessions in a different garage on the property and one that's hidden from prying eyes he had a 6 000 square foot space excavated underground where his 5 million car collection resides but while the variety of limited edition vehicles is certainly the centerpiece of his garage the means of access is unlike anywhere else in the world that's because he's had an aircraft carrier elevator fitted into the ground to lift vehicles up to the surface at 12 feet wide it's powered by six hydraulic ramps that are filled with 800 gallons of a hydraulic fluid to work it costs 25 bucks each time the elevator is operated but it also has some serious power not only does it easily move two super cars at a time but gonzales also uses it to transport his 60-foot bus the elevator is fully computer controlled and supposedly able to withstand any natural disasters so no matter what happens the cars remain accessible as an added touch there's even a fake boulder and a tree on top of the elevator so that when it's closed any outsiders would have no idea where it is number six the lingenfelter collection ken lingenfelter is the son of a former general motors executive and he spent his life following in his father's footsteps in the late 1970s he bought his first car a corvette and since then he's only gone on to add to his collection known as the lingenfelter performance collection it's worth tens of millions of dollars and contains some of the most impressive cars to have been built since the 1950s housed in brighton michigan it's not known quite how many vehicles the collection has but selections are often put on display for members of the public to visit amongst the collection is a 142 mile per hour 1963 chevrolet corvette split window coupe an incredibly rare 1974 amc gremlin 401 xr a 2014 supercharged chevrolet c7 corvette stingray and a 2019 chevrolet colorado zr2l as well as collecting cars lincoln filter also owns an automotive engineering company that specializes in performance modifications and a number of these creations are in the collection too these include a 2010 lingenfelter trans am that has 655 horsepower and more than 600 foot-pounds of torque a 2018 chevrolet camaro zl1 lingan filter that's spec for drag races and an incredible 2009 lingenfelter c6 corvette number 5 craig jackson's garage craig jackson took over his father's collector's car auction company in the same year ebay started offering car auctions online there were many people who believed he was heading for a failure before he had begun these premonitions couldn't have been further from the truth though because the business has gone from strength to strength and has put jackson at the center of rare car trades which means he's been able to snap up the best ones on offer for himself his particular interest is in muscle cars and he currently has 19 in his collection that's housed in his estate in scottsdale arizona he has a 1961 chevy impala custom coupe a 1965 shelby mustang gt350 and a 1970 dodge hemi challenger but when you have a collection of rare and valuable vehicles like these you also need an incredible place to keep them to do this jackson built a circular garage on a hillside near his home and the floor inside is coated with terrazzo the walls are made of leather and as you'd expect from someone who understands what affects a car's value serious thought has been put into keeping them as pristine as possible the garage has specialized heating and cooling systems to ensure a constant temperature and there's also a ventilation system to remove unwanted particles from the air this may seem like an extreme length to go to but when the car at the center of the collection is a two million dollar bugatti veyron it's surely worth the effort number four the autobao collection freddie lean hard was one of switzerland's most successful racing drivers but he didn't leave the cars behind when he retired instead he began purchasing some of the rarest and most unique cars on earth and formed what is now known as the autobot collection he raced porsches so that marquee makes up the majority of the cars on display and it's often regarded as one of the best porsche collections you'll find anywhere in the world and certainly the most impressive that's open to the public there are more than 100 cars on display including the ones linhard raced in several formula one cars ferraris lamborghinis american muscle cars and many more at first lienhard kept this as a private collection in garages found around switzerland but after a schoolteacher asked him if their students could see one of the cars he decided to open a museum that would double as a garage to hold his entire collection it's built inside a former alcohol warehouse and it's got to be the most exciting garage in the world the cars are displayed over two floors inside but the centerpiece is a dedicated private race track where cars can be tested and raced on there aren't many collectors who can boast the ability to take their vehicles through their paces without even having to leave the garage number three john travolta's house john travolta has been involved in some of the best and worst movies in the past few decades and unsurprisingly has amassed a fortune as a result he's an avid collector of vehicles of all types and his home in a gated community called jumbo lair in florida is a one-of-a-kind type of place to live as you'd expect he lives in a huge sprawling mansion which has a garage big enough for 15 cars and he makes best use of this with a mixture of practical and performance vehicles what's particularly unusual about the garage for this house though is that it doesn't just accommodate cars but has space for several planes too ready for takeoff travolta is also a keen pilot so much so that he's an ambassador for qantas airlines and owns a plane and a company's livery and lives on this private gated community because it has its very own runway with tarmac that leads up to the house in an interview he once said that he had designed the house so he could finish his dinner and walk straight onto a plane to take off without even having to leave through the front door number two guy fieri's garage guy fieri is best known for being the face of the food network and as a restaurant owner but when he's not in the kitchen he spends most of his time with his incredible collection of cars you may have seen him in his shows driving his beloved 1967 chevrolet camaro but this is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the vehicles that he owns as you'd expect from such a personality his choice of ride isn't exactly discreet the vast majority of cars in his collection are bright yellow to match his hair he keeps all of them in a custom designed garage near his home in long beach california he's particularly fond of american muscle cars and his collection includes a rare chevrolet chevelle a 2007 chevrolet corvette a 1968 pontiac firebird and a csx cobra from elsewhere in the world he also has an aston martin db9 and a 2008 lamborghini gallardo ensuring that he is a car for virtually any purpose ralph lauren's dad garage lauren has become one of the world's most influential designers which led him to becoming the 91st richest person on the planet he's put that wealth to good use too because he's amassed a collection of cars that are estimated to be worth upwards of 350 million dollars amazingly this value was achieved with just 43 cars which shows just how rare and unique they are his cars include a 1962 ferrari 250 gto a 1929 bentley four and a half leader a lamborghini ribanton roadster a bugatti veyron two ferrari testarossas and three 1996 mclaren f1s as a true gearhead lorenz designed a custom garage to keep his collection in which itself cost 100 million dollars to build known as the dad garage it's in bedford hills and is one of the most advanced garages in the world it has large prints of magazine covers all along the walls a dedicated administrative suite where his garage manager works scale models of most cars in the collection an archive to research potential rare and valuable additions and the workshop with all the equipment and spare parts needed to keep each one of the cars in perfect condition amazingly though despite the vast value contained in the garage lorenz lawyers once revealed that he only spends about 25 to 30 hours there per year when he peruses the collection he rarely ever drives any of them watch our vehicles playlist for more top 15 videos about amazing vehicles sit back relax and binge watch all of our best vehicle [Music] videos you

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Published: Wed Jan 13 2021