Dubai Luxury Car Graveyard
In the last five years luxury cars including porsches ferraris and mercedes benz have been abandoned on the streets of dubai and left at airport parking lots as their owners flee bankruptcy hit.
Dubai luxury car graveyard. But we have to confess this luxury car graveyard in dubai made us die a little inside. More than 3000 cars were abandoned in 2011 with most sold by the dubai police for rock bottom prices. Thousands of luxury cars including rolls royces ferraris lamborghini and bentleys are covered in desert dust in one of the world s most expensive supercar graveyard in sharjah uae. Many of the cars belong to foreign expats among them brits who travelled to cities like dubai and abu dhabi in search of high.
Established in 2003 exotic cars is one of the pioneers and leading car dealership for brand new and pre owned luxury and sports cars in dubai united arab emirates. The owners have chosen to cut their losses and run rather than face dubai s strict debt laws and potential jail time. Luxury car graveyard in dubai makes car lovers cry. 20 photos of luxury cars rotting away on dubai s roadsides thousands of ferrari s lamborghini s bentley s and maybach s left to be forgotten in the dust.
However in truth one of the primary reasons that so many expensive luxury cars end up abandoned is due to dubai s struggle in the face of the effects of the global financial crisis along with plunging oil prices. It s understood their owners were high flying businessmen who hit financial ruin then fled the country to dodge uea s strict debt laws and potential jail time. Exotic cars has in the space of over 16 short years evolved into the largest and most client preferred distributor of collectable automobiles in the middle east. It s an ongoing issue so we thought we d take a look at dubai s supercar graveyard.
Ferraris porsches bmws mercedes are regularly abandoned at the car park of dubai international airport some with loan documents and apology notes simply left on the windscreen and in some cases with the keys still in the ignition. We have an excess of 6000 registered buyers and were asked to run the official classic vehicle auction as part of the dubai motor show.