UK Collector Hides 85 Cars Under His House—Including a Porsche 918 and a Grand Tour RollsNick Sahota was on holiday when the cameras showed up. Not a beach-and-paperback holiday, either – he'd taken his newly acquired Porsche 918 Spyder and a freshly purchased Rolls-Royce Phantom somewhere suitably obscure. The man owns roughly 85 cars, keeps more than 70 of them stored directly beneath his house in a purpose-built underground garage, and his idea of a quiet break involves two vehicles that together cost the better part of two million pounds. Fair enough.Sahota is a UK property entrepreneur who has quietly built one of the more genuinely eclectic collections in Britain. Most serious collectors anchor themselves to a theme – German classics, Italian exotica, Japanese imports. Sahota's approach is closer to "things that were aspirational when he was young, plus whatever else caught his eye."The result is a garage that moves from Ferrari F355 Spiders to 1963 Chevrolet Impala lowriders to a pair of civilian Hummer H1s without any obvious thread beyond taste and a very healthy budget. His daily driver, per the Cars & Money podcast, is a Volkswagen Golf. Of course it is.The Cars That Actually Matter HereAmong the Ferraris in the collection sits the F430 Spider, which holds personal significance as Sahota's entry point into supercar ownership. The car is equipped with the F1 paddle-shift transmission rather than a manual gearbox – a detail that has become increasingly consequential in terms of market value. According to Classic.com, factory manual F430 Spiders average around $281,000 at auction, with the highest recent sale hitting $485,000 for a 2006 car in May 2026. F1-equipped examples typically trade in the $90,000–$120,000 range, per Yahoo Autos. Keeping the F1 car feels increasingly like the right call – those prices tend to get dragged upward when the manual variants become untouchable.AdvertisementAdvertisementThe F355 Spider alongside it is a different proposition entirely: gated six-speed manual, 3.5-liter naturally aspirated V8 that pulls to over 8,000 rpm, and a valve switch wired to hold the exhaust open permanently. Mechanically speaking, that car exists purely to make noise at antisocial volumes.Then there's the Testarossa. Sahota's example is a Japanese import wearing a Koenig Specials widebody kit – rear wing, front lip, Work VS-XX wheels – but without the twin-turbo Evolution powertrain that made the German tuner genuinely famous. Established in Munich by Willy König in 1977, Koenig Specials coaxed Ferrari's flat-12 engine beyond the 1,000-horsepower mark in its top-level Evolution specification – a level of modification that so aggravated Ferrari that the Italian manufacturer formally required its emblems to be stripped from any car bearing Koenig's alterations. Japan was the company's biggest market outside Germany, which explains the provenance of Sahota's car.Away from the Italians, the Range Rover CSK sitting in the collection is arguably the rarest thing in the building. To celebrate the Range Rover's 20th anniversary in 1990, Land Rover contracted a coachworks firm to produce a limited run of 200 two-door versions, bringing back the long-dropped body configuration while also debuting a new anti-roll bar technology. Named after Charles Spencer King – the engineer credited as the Range Rover's originator – all 200 came in Beluga Black, 40 of them with automatic gearboxes. Sahota's example is number eight of 200. At recent Collecting Cars auctions, CSKs have been achieving prices in the £50,000–£60,000 range, figures that would have seemed unthinkable ten years ago.The Rolls-Royce Dawn in Salamanca Blue carries its own footnote: it served as a press car during the first season of The Grand Tour, with James May behind the wheel. The matching Cullinan beside it has covered over 70,000 miles and features the optional Viewing Suite – a pair of electronic picnic seats that deploy from the tailgate. Seventy thousand miles on a Cullinan suggests Sahota actually uses the thing, which is either admirable or quietly terrifying depending on your feelings about depreciation.AdvertisementAdvertisementThe BMW holdings are extensive. Among them sits a long-wheelbase E38 Alpina B12 5.7, equipped with Switch-Tronic steering wheel controls, a rear-mounted VHS player, an integrated onboard phone, and electronic dampers. An E34 Alpina B10 3.5 wearing Recaro C81 seats and carrying his father's original number plate – GSX 2T – which Sahota tracked down and repurchased years after the family car it came from was sold. A Laguna Seca Blue E46 M3 with an ESS supercharger pushing approximately 480 horsepower against the stock car's 330–340, interior finished in matching Laguna Seca Blue. An E30 318i with a 4.4-liter M62 V8 transplanted from a 5 Series, essentially a sleeper built to humiliate people at junctions.The American contingent is where the collection gets genuinely strange. A 1963 Chevrolet Impala fitted with full hydraulic suspension – eight leisure batteries and a compressor system occupying the entire trunk. A Monte Carlo lowrider bearing a license plate that nods to the Denzel Washington movie Training Day. A pair of civilian Hummer H1s – one with a hard-top body and one with a soft-top – with recent examples fetching between 60,000 and 70,000 euros on Collecting Cars. They make everything parked near them look like a city car.The Part Most Collectors OverlookSahota's wheel collection occupies its own room and includes Bugatti EB110 center-lock wheels valued at approximately $16,000 – currently fitted to the Inka Orange E30 M3 with its S54 B32 engine swap – alongside Brabus Monoblock IIs and VIs, BBS splits, AC Schnitzer 19-inch dealer-option splits for the E34, and a carbon fiber Rolls-Royce Ghost wheel that nobody apparently thinks to mention. Lining the walls above and between the vehicles, hundreds of personalised number plates form a sprawling collection, with the registrations spanning combinations tied to names, businesses, and various concepts that Sahota has deemed worthy of keeping.His logic on plates is direct. "I sell cars on a rarity basis," he told the Cars & Money podcast in May 2026. "One of 30 in the UK, one of 50 in the world. But a number plate, whatever number plate it is, is one of one." He added: "I'm geeky for the combinations: how can you get that word or whatever in the format that works on a UK plate?"AdvertisementAdvertisementThe collection as a whole reflects something that most wealthy car owners don't bother with: actual use. The F430 has worn seats. The Cullinan has 70,000 miles. The E30 went out for a spin during the tour and immediately tried to kill its occupants via wheel spin and V8 noise. Sahota himself was testing his 918 Spyder on holiday while someone else catalogued what he'd left behind. There are worse ways to spend a Tuesday.
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