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Welcome! Great, 38 seen a few Valhalas, and one of them is the exact spec that I had chosen. This is the combo that was the hardest spec I ever done, man. I finally finished specking my W1, bro. It weighs 1.9 tons, so definitely not for sale. This was one of my first clients and now one of my good friends. I bought a green G Wagon and a grey G Wagon.
What you doing back in London? Of course, we got to be back in London. I came to spec an ASM today, but tomorrow is the big exciting day where we're going to spec the W1. Yeah, you can either do it via Zoom call or you can fly to the factory, inspect it yourself, and see it. It's a unique car and something for my personal collection. I like to fly and inspect those cars in the factory. I want to know more about the car; I want to see it in person. You know, I want to feel the leather and the materials that they use, so then I can decide if I want to go Aranta, if I want to go with the leather, or there's the new tech technique I think they call it for the W1. So I want to go and see it in person because obviously in Dubai they won't have those um items to see in stock. So I said, you know what, let's go to the factory. So tomorrow we're going to the MTC Centre. But I think when I'm specking the W1, no one's allowed in that room, cuz it'll probably upset the other people that have ordered the W1 cuz he won't give them the same experience cuz they've already seen it. So I'm not going to be able to post that, as per them; they said we can't shoot inside that room, but the whole tour is possible.
Wait, so let me get this right, you came all the way to London just to spec a car? I came to spec two cars, but it's mainly work networking. I got a meeting on Wednesday with another company who does body kits and stuff. A few people that I know; Yanni, I'm going to see Yanni on Wednesday as well. Then Thursday we're back in Dubai, back to work. It's busy right now. I didn't want to leave right now cuz it's peak season for us, but I had no choice. If I delay my spec, I delay my car. So I said, you know what, let's go. They gave me chassis number 53, so it'll be the 53rd car probably in the first year. So next year we should get the car; the other ones up until um maybe 2027. Yeah, every time I come, I like to use the Sprinter van. We're watching my podcast because I don't have time to watch my own content. So by the time this video is out, the podcast will be ready to be out. It's with Rob Mo; it's from the UK; it's called The Disruptors. Really nice guy; came to my showroom; we shot about an hour, an hour and a half podcast; got a lot of information about car rentals and supercars. Make sure you guys check it out, and don't forget guys, subscribe to my channel, put the comments in below, tell me what you guys like of my channel, and I'll keep on giving you guys some crazy content.
Welcome. Just you know, un-un- on it's for different time zones. It told us that your SL was 3:00 p.m., but told you that it was 7:00 p.m. Look, we're actually, we're actually on the way to you guys now; we're an hour and 20 minutes out. If we can move our session forward, we can be there at 5:30 p.m. Yeah, just come, just come; you're fine. Not your fault; apologies. Yeah, oh good, man; we're on the way. Um, lucky we left early then. So perfect. All right, bro, thank you. See you guys soon. Always hang, always happy to hang on for you. Just want to make sure. Okay, bye. Lucky we live in the email they sent me 3:00 p.m. What did they send me on the PDF, because dub three hours, scho 7:00 p.m.? Ah, they took the math; yeah, they made a mistake; yeah, they made a mistake with the timing. So the dealer from the UK just called to say where's Armored? He goes, um, 7:00. He goes, what's 7:00? We're at home at 7:00; factory closed at 7:00 p.m.
So you got the Valkyrie Spider, and then you got the Valkyrie AMR Pro, wow, which is the obviously kind of precursor to the AM, and then you got the Aston Martin Valhalla, which is one of 38, uh, collaboration with Fernando Alonso. Wow. I think that's the one been going viral lately with Gordon Ramsey. Know this though; looks sick; it's got a different front lip. I know it's a little bit higher than, yeah, I mean, this is this is the the track-only, C track-only car, um, so it's fixed there, but yeah, that two tons are down for, wow; it's a quick car. Wow. My friends got one of these, but not this one; the actual normal um Valkyries. Look at the interior, come inside, look at this. I don't think I can fit in this, man. L another 10 lb steering wheel. Ryan, what do you think? Green, green, or black? We can check their samples out, their colours. There's the Valkyrie Spider. I've never seen one in person. I the cops and how many of these are made? 70? How many? 85? 85. Yeah, 85. This is actually the uh original model. Ah, it's original model; this was the display piece. Yeah, been utilized the pram and dry carbon. Come check out the back of these, man; incredible, man. That's a track-only car. The white one over there is a daily; you can drive it as a daily. That's only a track car, and then this is a Valkyrie Spider, which is also track. Yeah, might as well take all three now. It's giving me more of a vision for how we're going to do the Valhalla. You don't have a Valhalla on display? No, we don't, but we got to see it; might be one in. Oh, beautiful; perfect. You can see when I'm, because I've a lot of the YouTube videos are outdated; they're like three years ago, three years ago, three years ago on the old version that he's had. Yes, there's a display model, so there's only like three or four new videos which I've watched them more and I'm like, I want to see, I want to see more. What we're going to do today is take you sort of behind the scenes, take through the production cycle and how it's produced all the way to the end. Done. So basically, guys, you heard that we're going inside the factory. You guys can't come and see that unless if you buy an Aston; you just can fly out and see one. So even our phones have to go in a little pouch, so we're not even going to have access to our phones. So see, he's on the other side; let's go spec. How was the factory tour? It was amazing. We're going to spec the car now. Don't know what color to choose; I'm confused.
I've seen a few Valhalas, and one of them is the exact spec that I had chosen. Literally, I thought it was my car. Has anyone done this type of spec before? I've only seen this on things like a, I've seen it on a V12 Vantage before. I've seen one in Germany, but I've seen the the other green though. I haven't seen anybody spec it this way before. We'll be the first, I think. I mean, that is a statement piece, really, isn't it? I mean, for for the work you do, I mean, this will turn heads everywhere it goes, regardless cuz it's a Valhalla, but the color combinations here are so unique. We're going purple, bro. Yeah, I'm going purple. Yeah, this is the combo. Good. So I'm going for this. We knock this all out of the way; that's my spec. So as we've gone along here, I've taken notes of all those. What a color combo, man. That was the hardest spec I ever done, man. Look, cuz you know what, I've wanted this car for so long; it's just that one of those things that's got to be right, right? It's got to be right. Yeah. Wow, bro, that was the longest spec I ever have done, and I've been specking this car for about two months since the configurator came out. Every single day I've been online 10 minutes, 15 minutes, changing my mind, leaving, changing my mind, leaving. My heart was set on purple though from day one, but everyone's like, oh, purple, purple, purple; don't do it, don't do it, don't do it. But I'm crazy, bro; I love my colors. So we're going for purple right now. A little bit hungry; it's a big trip back to London; an hour and a half; the drama's asleep; that's how long we took. I don't blame him, bro. What, you want to keep him awake? At least he slept, not sleeping on the road, so it's cool. Yeah, he's been specking the Valhalla for the past 45 days; every day, two or three times. Imagine tomorrow how long we're going to spend with my client to spec the W1. Yeah, you just said you haven't seen anything; we better take a barber with us tomorrow because you're going to need a shave. It's cold, man. So that's it for tonight, guys. I'm at the hotel; it's midnight; got my spec right here. Tomorrow, exciting day, going to McLaren now. I'm going to be confused what I'm going to expect in McLaren. They'll see tomorrow. Good night, peace.
So today's the day I'm looking forward to. You know, I flew all the way to the UK specifically for the McLaren W1. Yes, the Valhalla was also on the list, but you know, with the W1, 399 units only getting made, super hard car to get; not saying anything bad about the ASM. ASM is going to be my daily, but the W1's going to be like my weekend car, or every second week I'll take it for a drive. I don't know what color I'm going to spec. I did the the last one with the purple with the acid green accents. I'm really excited for this moment. Yesterday's factory tour was awesome; I had so much fun, and now today we're going to go see how McLarens are getting made; for a four-hour tour. I'm not sure where we can shoot and where we can't shoot, but we'll know more information when we get there. These factory tours, once you know how much work goes into these cars, you start to love the product even more. Very important if you're buying something like a supercar or a hypercar; definitely visit the factory. You get to meet the people there; you get to see behind the scenes; it's so important for you. We've got to be there in an hour, and we still haven't had breakfast, but doesn't matter; we're going to be there all day. Onm, so we're going to head off right now. I'll see you guys at McLaren; keep you guys posted. Hello, how you doing? How's it going? Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. How you doing? Good. I'm honestly speechless; like, I can't believe it. Yeah, I'm trying to find every single video, every single magazine online to see it, to look at every single angle, but seeing it in person, absolutely amazing, like incredible, incredible. I did see a color that I did like, but I'm not going to mention what I'm going to be doing with the spec. We're going to jump on the spec session now, then we'll jump back on the camera and finish off the shoot.
So guys, I finally finished specking my McLaren W1; super exciting. I done something very unusual for my collection; I'm actually looking forward to it. It's the first time I've ever done this. I'm not going to say much more; it's going to have to wait for the final date of the reveal; hopefully mid-2026. Right now we're going to leave; we're going to do a tour on the factory. I'm not sure how much I can actually shoot, but I know we're going to see a lot of Ms. Look at this. Oh, is it Lego? Yeah, it's made out of Lego. It says here 468,000 bricks in this car, and it took him 2,7, 30 people, 2,700 hours. It still weighs 1.9 tons, bro. It weighs 1.9 tons; say, definitely not for sale. So guys, we've done a tour; we looked at all the Formula 1 cars and the history of McLaren. Right now we're going to enter the production centre; unfortunately, you guys can't come with us. I'm excited. 5:00 p.m.; we got here at 12:00; five hours. So we did a factory tour; we specced my car; it took me three hours to spec my car. We're at Rolls-Royce; I specced two cars in 15 minutes, I think it was. This was one of the hardest specs I ever had to choose. I did something crazy, something very unique, something very, very expensive, but it is what it is. If you live once, the W1; I've been waiting for it for so long; I want to be different this time. I think it's going to look nice in my garage; I'm really excited; I'm super tired; I want to go back home; I want to eat something; rest for a little bit; got a big day tomorrow again. So let's wrap it up for now; we'll see you guys soon.
I'm with Gary Wilson, so Gary came to my showroom about a year ago and told me he wanted to polish one of my cars, and he gave me, if I don't do a good job, you don't have to pay me. I said, you know what, Gary, there's a McLaren, the orange one; I said, show me what you got. He polished the car; took him about two days. I got the shits because obviously I want to rent the car, but then I'm like, I seen the process, and he showed me half the car getting done, and I realized how good his work is. We actually partnered up; he started doing all my cars, and I gave him a lot of contract work in the way, and he's proud to say, and I just seen this; I'm very proud to see it; luxury super car rentals on his jacket, and he drove, how many hours you drive to get to see me? Four hours. Four hours; it's a lot of respect for you, Gary, and um, I need you to come back to Dubai; I need my car polished, mate. I'll be there; I'll be there soon; I promise in the new showroom. What I've just told him inside for anyone, if anyone that wants paint correction and want to get it done right, Gary's the guy to see. He loves his job; amazing. Find a job you love doing and you'll never work a day in your life, and I love what I do; it's my passion; it's what, what I live for. What's the best car you've ever polished, or the most rarest, or the most exciting car you've done? Oh, that's very hard; probably the one of one that I'm doing at the minute, and then Mercedes 280; they were originally born with a 2.9 engine, but this one's got a 5.9 engine in it, and the owner had it full nut and bolt restoration in Germany, and yeah, it's the only one that's of that model on that many cars, bro; it's like, but it's, it's hard to think about one of them. Good to see you, Gary. Thank you for coming out; see you soon in Dubai. Yeah, definitely. It's a beautiful day today in London; it's our last day also. I was playing with Ryan yesterday with the specs; they're finished now. I was going to go do a tour; you're happy with the spec? Yeah, I got actually the PDF today; sent it to me for the spec for the W1, and I finalized it; it's looking really, really good. We're just waiting on two or three more items that I've did full MSO on, so they have to see the cost of it and if it can be done. Even the boys at the factory said you're the only guy with balls to do that color combination. Basically, the color combination I did, it's something that not much people will do, but you know me; I always take risks; I always want something to be different; I want people to know when I'm driving that car that's Arad's car. I set the trend with the uh Tiffany blue. We were the first in the world to do Tiffany on Tiffany before Mansory, before anyone. Google that stuff; it's true facts; we were the first to have a Tiffany on Tiffany car pretty much that I've ever seen. After we've done it, then Mansory did the fade. Now you say every now they've even gone all the way to Australia, for example. I got a lot of viewers that are from Australia; I just seen one online the other day; someone sent it to me. But the one I went with now with the McLaren is something different; it's unique. I'm going to give you a little hint: a lot of carbon fiber, that's for sure, and then a lot of nice accents with a very, very nice color. I don't want to reveal it right now; I think it's still too early, but maybe one of my other videos I, I'll show the PDF on the screen. You guys already seen the Valhalla 100%, but I did some changes on that as well, and we're still waiting from the Q team to see also three items on that car that are not standard features, so they actually have to go to the design team to do it for me; they've never done it before. So something specific that I chose; it's never been done before; the item that I'm doing is not so much, but yeah. And on another note, it's very nice weather today for London; it is; the sun's out; we're going to go eat something; go do some shopping; get something for my son. Let's go; see you guys later, man; let's go.
Basically, this was one of my first clients and now one of my friends. He came to my showroom in Business Bay when we had 30 square meters. Name is Ammar from Bisouke; he's got a car rental company in the UK. Went for lunch; we had lunch together; caught up; we haven't seen each other in, what, over a year? You last, I see you, you last year? Yeah, yeah, last year. And we're just talking in general; was very busy at the unit as well. Yeah, been busy; it's been busy. We're just talking in general before about the prices, comparing prices between Dubai and the UK when it comes to rentals. So we said, you know what, we'll discuss it; we'll put it on YouTube so you guys can understand. So this is your car? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think you got a ticket; you got a ticket. What's the ticket cost? Ticket here, penalty charge notice, 60, 70. 60, 70. What's that? What was uh, that's about £70; is what it is; nothing compared, Durham, bro. Listen, we pay 150 in Dubai; parking's 150 in Dubai; Durham, it's nothing compared to what I got, oh, with you know. So once, true story, he came, he went out for a big night; he had the G Wagon; he got about 35k fines in one night. I rang him the next day; Ammar, what did you do? He goes, what did I do? I can't remember. I'm like, bro, 30k in fines. He's like, yeah, I seen something flashing at me; I didn't know what it was; 20 flashes, 20. I thought I seen something flash; I didn't know what it was, and it got flashed like 20 times; 20 flashes. So for a parking ticket in Dubai is about $150; D about 3, 65 if I pay it now, then within a certain amount, 28 days, you, it goes up. So now I pay it £65, okay, but if I forget to pay it in 28 days, it's going to be £130; it goes up and up. What's the G Wagon cost to rent? So this I tried 750 a day; £750, 700, 750 a day. Yes. Wow, £700; that's that's near what, 4,000 dirhams a day. We push a G Wagon 18 is our website price; regular clients 5 per day; if it's long term, taking it like monthly, we can do it for about 30k a month, so it works out to be, 1000 a day, so about £250, 200 a day. Oh, L, yeah, if you're taking it monthly. But here, did you do monthly rentals or no? One really takes for, no, we do it monthly as well, but here, we pay bloody taxes, don't we? All you got, what, 47% tax? You guys, you guys don't pay; you guys tax-free over there; you got tax-free. Also, the car's a little bit cheaper in Dubai. So for example, G Wagy, how much this cost to buy? This one I got for 139, 40; it was up for 149, so I got a 10 grand discount; 700,000, 800,000. Yeah, we, we, we save about maybe 50k pounds off that price, probably 100k pounds used, obviously not brand new, but it's different to have the sun on this side. I missed this; this used to be Australia. Yeah, still a baby, bro; 18,000 miles. I got like 880,000 and stuff, but we bought new ones. So while I was away, I bought a G Wagon, a green G Wagon and a grey G Wagon. So since I, since I touched down, ended up buying a G Wagon; I paid for it; I transferred the money. What else do we transfer money for? The pro on this trip; the other cars were already on order; they're already booked, but um, that's the GW; that's a 2024; 6,000 km; like a demo, bro; it was good to see you; next time you come down, come to the family showroom; 100%; I show you how we do the rentals there and come and see the fleet when you come to, when you come to Dubai next. Dubai, Insha'Allah. I'm going to come um after Ramadan; after Ramadan; yeah, it's nice time to come; Ramadan after Ramadan, just before the summer; you'd probably be coming after. So when you come down, I'm going to take you to the family showroom; show you done, see.