With an estimated net worth of $7 billion, it’s safe to say fashion mogul Ralph Lauren has the requisite means to build an impressive car collection. And impressive it certainly is…
The eponymous designer behind the Ralph Lauren Corporation began his love affair with unique and rarefied automobiles back in the 70s when he purchased the first car worth mentioning: a 1971 Mercedes 280SE 4.5 convertible. According to Forbes, what followed was a 1979 Porsche 930 and a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing coupe.
In the present day, the man who changed the fashion industry famously keeps a garage reportedly valued at over $350 million, featuring everything from the expected – i.e. the creations of fellow design icons Enzo Ferrari and Walter Owen Bentley – to more than one factory-built race car and other connoisseur picks.
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“I’ve always seen cars as art. Moving art. While friends of mine were into paintings, I somehow felt that the real beauty of owning a rare and magnificently designed car was the fact that you can use it,” Ralph Lauren noted in a 2004 interview for a book detailing his collection.
“You can look at it, enjoy its visual qualities, as with a painting, but you can also get inside and drive it – which means both enjoying the drive itself and going somewhere with it.”
Incidentally, 17 of Lauren’s cars would later be exhibited in Paris’ The Louvre for a standalone four-month show circa 2011. Art, indeed.
Have a gander at some of the most notable rides Ralph Lauren owns below.
Ralph Lauren’s Car Collection
**Note: All $$$ referenced in this article = USD
1929 Bentley Blower (4 ½ Litre)
1930 Mercedes-Benz SSK (“Count Trossi”)
1933 Bugatti Type 59 Grand Prix
1937 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic Coupe
1939 Alfa Romeo 8C Mille Miglia Spyder
1954 Ferrari 375 Plus
1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Coupe
1955 Porsche 550 Spyder
1950 Jaguar XK120 Roadster
1955 Jaguar XKD
1957 Jaguar XKSS
1958 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster
1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa Spyder
1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta Scaglietti
1962 Ferrari 250 GTO
The most expensive car in the collection at ~$60 million auction price.
1965 Aston Martin DB5 Volante Drophead Coupe
1967 Ferrari 275 GTB NART Spider
1971 Mercedes 280SE 4.5 Convertible
1996 McLaren F1 LM
2008 Lamborghini Reventón Roadster
2010 Lamborghini Murciélago SuperVeloce
2010 Bugatti Veyron Super Sport
2014 McLaren P1
2014 Porsche 918 Spyder
Reportedly one of two in the Ralph Lauren collection.
Now that you’ve seen the very best of Ralph Lauren’s collection, check out the equally jaw-dropping garages of the big fella Rick Ross himself and the 29th Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah (the latter of whom reputedly has the world’s most expensive car collection).
