A wealthy car enthusiast drove his £866,000 McLaren supercar to the garage to pick up his new £1.2m Ferrari - which he then drove to collect his new £780,000 Porsche.
Businessman Paul Bailey has beaten the world's wealthiest car collectors to become the first person to own the £3million "Holy Trinity" of hypercars.His Saturday started when he got behind the wheel of his McLaren P1 and drove 35 miles from his home to a Ferrari dealership in Nottingham.He then handed the keys to his P1 to wife Selena and jumped inside his brand new £1.2 million Ferrari LaFerrari, which he ordered two years ago.
They then drove 100 miles in convoy to a Porsche dealership in Cambridge, where he collected his new 918 Spyder.
It is thought Mr Bailey, from Rutland, is the first person to get their hands on all three of the world's most sought-after hypercars. The three machines, which have only been seen together previously in car magazines, boast a combined 2,740bhp - the equivalent of 45 entry-level Ford Fiestas.
All three are capable of 0-62mph in less than three seconds and a top speed of more than 200mph.
They they are part of a new breed of ultra-performance motors which use hybrid technology to achieve fuel economy of up to 94mpg. Multi-millionaire Mr Bailey, who sold his telephone conferencing business for £28million in 2012, described his fleet of performance motors as "totally amazing". He said: "I have been waiting, in real terms, about two years for the LaFerrari. Early images of these cars were snapped and emotions rose as delivery dates came closer.
"I was offered one of the first five UK cars but these did not have the level of personalisation that I have had.
"This is the first UK car with full personalisation and it was worth the wait "I live a very surreal life and being the first to own all three does not feel real. This is why I want to use and share the cars with enthusiasts.
"It is too early to say which is the best as they are all totally amazing. I will be able to better comment when I have driven them back to back on the race track." All three of the limited edition hybrid hypercars have now sold out with deliveries currently taking place around the world.
The McLaren is the rarest, with 375 built. Ferrari is manufacturing 499 LaFerraris and Porsche has sold all 918 of its 918s. Mr Bailey will be offering rides in the cars to a select few at Silverstone through Supercar Driver, a club he is a member of. He has already raised thousands for charity by raffling off £1 tickets for people to win a go in his P1.
Adam Thorby, founder of Supercar Driver, said: "Paul has got a cracking collection of cars and I think he is the first person to own all three of these. "A lot of people who buys cars like this will have them hidden away but Paul is going to be driving them."At Supercar Driver we do a lot of events and he will be taking the cars along and letting people have rides in them. "I think he has raised around £20,000 for charity since he got his P1 by raffling off rides in them."
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