Gautam Singhania passion for fast cars, luxury yachts

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Gautam Singhania

Gautam Singhania's passion for fast cars, luxury yachts, planes and nightclubs is well known.

Singhania, the chairman of the Raymond Group, has driven a Formula 1 car in France: a Ferrari 360 Modena in rally across Europe.

He owns a Challenger business jet and a helicopter. International aircraft refurbisher Eric Roth is behind the beige and brown interiors of Singhania's Challenger and an 18th century jamawar shawl of Singhania's choice apparently served as the inspiration.

Challenger's features include an advanced Collins ProLine IV EFIS avionics system with colour displays, and increased fuel tankage.

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Rajeev Chandrashekhar

Entrepreneur-politician Rajeev Chandrashekhar was always a keen flier and own a private jet.

Recently, he bought a Bombardier Challenger 300 for Rs 1.4 billion (Rs 140 crore). The silver-coloured aircraft is a 9-seater and has plush beige interiors.

It has the latest generation glass cockpit, a flying range of 3,500 nautical miles (6,475 kms) with luxurious cabin fitting and customised music, sound and video system.

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K P Singh

K P Singh established India's largest real estate company DLF, in terms of revenues, earnings, market capitalisation and developable area. The real estate baron owns a Gulfstream IV.

The Gulfstream IV is a significantly improved, larger, longer range and advanced version of the earlier Gulfstream II and Gulfstream III models. It offers long range luxury transport for up to 14 passengers.

The most noticeable improvement on the G-IV over the earlier Gulfstream models are the Rolls-Royce Tay turbofans, which significantly reduce fuel consumption and noise pollution.

Other private jet owners include Sun TV's Maran family, Bharat Forge's Kalyanis, Videocon's Dhoots, Suzlon's Tulsi Tanti, H S Narula, C Sivasankaran and Pramod Mittal