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Im from Malaysia, so heres a little bit of background on Brunei...

Its a small little country nestled bbetween Malaysias Eastern states, Sabah and Sarawak (sarawak being the bigger of the 2). I have no idea how that country formed between the 2, but the Sultan of Brunei I would say is probably the richest person in SOutheast Asia and probably around the Australasian region. The country is pretty rich as it owns tons and tons of offshore oil rigs, in which most of the profit made from selling oil goes directly to the SUltan (at least thats what I was told). I dont know who the current Sultan of Brunei is, but when I heard about him last, he was a major car freak. He owned about 200-300 cars.

Oh and one more thing..in Malaysia, buying cars is really expensive. We typically have a 300% tax on all imported cars. So a regular Ford Mustang GT would probably cost like $100000, a Lamgorghini Diablo would cost close to about $1.5 million, and so would Ferraris (THese dollar amounts are AFTER currency conversions from ours, which is Ringgit, to US dollars)

[This message has been edited by Redeye (edited 06 December 2002).]

<blockquote data-quote="Redeye" data-source="post: 63389" data-attributes="member: 4444">Im from Malaysia, so heres a little bit of background on Brunei...Its a small little country nestled bbetween Malaysias Eastern states, Sabah and Sarawak (sarawak being the bigger of the 2).&nbsp; I have no idea how that country formed between the 2, but the Sultan of Brunei I would say is probably the richest person in SOutheast Asia and probably around the Australasian region.&nbsp; The country is pretty rich as it owns tons and tons of offshore oil rigs, in which most of the profit made from selling oil goes directly to the SUltan (at least thats what I was told).&nbsp; I dont know who the current Sultan of Brunei is, but when I heard about him last, he was a major car freak.&nbsp; He owned about 200-300 cars.Oh and one more thing..in Malaysia, buying cars is really expensive.&nbsp; We typically have a 300% tax on all imported cars.&nbsp; So a regular Ford Mustang GT would probably cost like $100000, a Lamgorghini Diablo would cost close to about $1.5 million, and so would Ferraris (THese dollar amounts are AFTER currency conversions from ours, which is Ringgit, to US dollars)[This message has been edited by Redeye (edited 06 December 2002).]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Redeye, post: 63389, member: 4444"] Im from Malaysia, so heres a little bit of background on Brunei... Its a small little country nestled bbetween Malaysias Eastern states, Sabah and Sarawak (sarawak being the bigger of the 2). I have no idea how that country formed between the 2, but the Sultan of Brunei I would say is probably the richest person in SOutheast Asia and probably around the Australasian region. The country is pretty rich as it owns tons and tons of offshore oil rigs, in which most of the profit made from selling oil goes directly to the SUltan (at least thats what I was told). I dont know who the current Sultan of Brunei is, but when I heard about him last, he was a major car freak. He owned about 200-300 cars. Oh and one more thing..in Malaysia, buying cars is really expensive. We typically have a 300% tax on all imported cars. So a regular Ford Mustang GT would probably cost like $100000, a Lamgorghini Diablo would cost close to about $1.5 million, and so would Ferraris (THese dollar amounts are AFTER currency conversions from ours, which is Ringgit, to US dollars) [This message has been edited by Redeye (edited 06 December 2002).] [/QUOTE]

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