They
spend months of the year parading along the seafront of Dubai or locked
up in the vast garages of millionaires' mansions in Riyadh.
But the summer arrival of these expensive Arab-owned supercars to London has become as regular an event as the tennis at Wimbledon or the cricket at Lords.
The
capital has once again seen a boom in the number of Lamborghinis,
Ferraris and Bugattis on its streets as rich Qataris, Saudis, Emiratis
and Kuwaitis move to Britain to escape the Middle East's baking
mid-summer months.
But
the growing number of sports cars around the wealthy Knightsbridge
district is causing some local residents to worry about breaches of
parking rules and potential dangerous driving.
A queue of extravagant vehicles were
parked around Harrods yesterday including a £400,000 Mercedes AMG, a
£1million Pagani Huayra and a £300,000 Rolls Royce
A
Dubai-registered £1million Bugatti, parked on double yellow lines in
front of a modified Rolls-Royce, attracted the attention of a traffic
warden yesterday
A Qatari-owned
£200,000 Ferrari 458 in front of a £300,000 Lamborghini Aventador. The
cars are attracting gangs of camera-wielding youths, dubbed the
'Carparazzi'
A £400,000
six-wheeled Mercedes G63 AMG, similar to one which featured on Top Gear,
is among the most outrageous to have been shipped across
The cars owners compete with each
other to see who can carry out the most outlandish modifications, with
this £150,000 Maserati Gran Turismo given a silver bonnet
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