| Many celebrities confess to having a love of cars and | | | | Fame doesn't necessarily give rise to the need to |
| driving; some even spend a considerable amount of | | | | spend lavishly on top-of-the-range cars, however. At |
| time and money building up collections of cars for | | | | the peak of the Spice Girls' fame, band member |
| their own personal garage. So, what are some of the | | | | Melanie Chisholm - also known as 'Sporty Spice' - |
| vehicles driven by the rich and famous? | | | | shelled out on a 1998 Audi A3 which she used to |
| Footballers, it seems, are in the top bracket when it | | | | drive herself around as she and the band rose to |
| comes to exotic cars, with many of the top earners | | | | international stardom, clocking up 79,000 miles in the |
| in the game having what appears to be an obsession | | | | process. With the Spice Girls going on to become one |
| with owning the world's most exclusive and | | | | of the biggest girl groups of all time, it was unlikely |
| expensive cars. Manchester United star Wayne | | | | that Sporty Spice needed Audi car finance to make |
| Rooney, for example, can count such vehicles as the | | | | her purchase and later the car was sold on the |
| Lamborghini Gallardo, Bentley Continental GT, Aston | | | | motoring website, Autotrader, having amassed |
| Martin Vanquish and BMW M6 among his collection. | | | | 110,000 miles and a full service history, for a bargain |
| Chelsea midfielder Claude Makelele is another | | | | price of £2,995. |
| footballer whose garage is full of hot wheels; a | | | | Film and TV stars aren't immune to owning |
| Mercedes McLaren SLR, Ferrari F360 and a Mercedes | | | | top-of-the-range vehicles either. American actor Ben |
| SL65 AMG convertible are among the cars owned by | | | | Affleck has owned an Aston Martin DB7 and Dodge |
| the Dutchman. Meanwhile Liverpool captain Steven | | | | RAM, while Brad Pitt can claim to have driven the |
| Gerrard can boast a Porsche 911 Turbo, Mercedes | | | | Mercedes G55 AMG. More modest cars owned by |
| SLK, Aston Martin Vanquish and BMW X5 as part of | | | | film and TV stars include the David 'The Hoff' |
| his fleet of motoring muscle. Cristiano Ronaldo has | | | | Hasselhoff's BMW Mini and Harry Potter star, Daniel |
| owned an Audi R8, BMW X5 and Ferrari 360 among | | | | Radcliffe's Fiat Punto. |
| his cars, and his name features on a waiting list for | | | | However, no celebrity car is complete without a |
| perhaps the world's ultimate car - the Bugatti Veyron. | | | | personalised registration plate. Recently, Formula One |
| However, perhaps the ultimate car fanatic from the | | | | racing driver Lewis Hamilton reportedly paid |
| footballing world is David Beckham. Having spent in | | | | £200,000 on the personalised registration LEW |
| excess of £2million on a host of vehicles, | | | | 1S; but the driver won't be putting the registration |
| Beckham's garage counts the likes of the Ferrari 575 | | | | onto his Mercedes SLR or McLaren F1, however, with |
| and F430, Lamborghini Gallardo, two Bentley Arnages | | | | the plate destined to be attached to his Mercedes |
| and a Rolls Royce Phantom among others. Beckham | | | | GL420 4x4 off-roader. Other famous registration |
| also has an armour-plated BMW X5 and once owned | | | | plates include magician Paul Daniels' MAG 1C, singer |
| an Aston Martin DB7, with the registration plate 'DB7'. | | | | Englebert Humperdinck's EH 1 and business tycoon Sir |
| Cars such as these are all a far cry from Beckham's | | | | Alan Sugar's AMS 1 which is regularly seen in the |
| first entry into the motoring world - the humble Ford | | | | opening sequence of the show 'The Apprentice'. |
| Escort. | | | | |