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Wed 02 Feb 2010Sultan of style
Cruising along in a sharky supercar with one of the most desirable badges money can buy, a somewhat squashed Ben Olivergives the lowdown on Aston's new Rapide
THE SULTAN OF Brunei is Aston Martin's best-ever customer. During the 1990s he put around 300 Aston Martins into his collection of at least 3,000 cars. Given that Aston only made 46 cars in 1992, there's a good chance that without the Sultan back then, there would be no Aston Martin today.
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