MOTOR: Go for gold.

So, you've always wanted a McLaren. Then what about one of these?

They are the incredible tribute to the life and success of Mansour Ojjeh, the man behind the success of the TAG group and also an owner of McLaren.

McLaren won seven drivers' championships and 10 manufacturers' titles during his time at the top, while Ojjeh also had the vision to create McLaren Automotive and McLaren Applied Technologies, as well as buying the watch company now known as TAG-Heuer.

Ojjeh first got involved in F1 by backing Williams in 1979 in the Alan Jones era, then investing in McLaren, When his new team moved seriously into high-performance road cars, with Ron Dennis and designer Gordon Murray, he also got seriously into a collection of 20 extraordinary cars.

He died in 2021 at the age of 68 and now his family has the cars up for sale, using the same British broker who eased the transfer of Bernie Ecclestone's outrageous collection of 69 Formula One cars to Mark Mateschitz – son of the Red Bull boss and grand prix team owner – for a price estimated to be close to $1 billion.

Born in Paris but educated in California, Ojjeh succeed his father as CEO of Techniques d’Avant Garde (TAG), a Luxembourg-based company with investments in aviation, motorsport and luxury goods.

His early personal cars included a Lamborghini Countach and Rolls-Royce Corniche, he then added the Ferrari 250 California Spyder and 288 GTO, before suggesting the F1 road car project at McLaren.

The Ojjeh cars, from the F1 to the Elva delivered after Mansour’s passing – which had its McLaren badges replaced by Mansour's personal emblem – are special.

Each is the last of the production run for that model and each is painted in a unique colour originally called Yquem – the name of a rare desert wine – and now known as 'Mansour Orange'.

The collection includes a Speedtail, P1, Senna, Elva, and Sabre – the last of only 16 cars – plus special Longtail and Le Mans editions.

The iconic F1 has only travelled 1810 kilometres and the P1 GTR was used occasionally at McLaren track days, but every other car is completely unused and in its factory-delivered condition.

“This is the most significant McLaren road car collection ever assembled, and I sincerely hope it is acquired by a single buyer, just as the Ecclestone Grand Prix collection was which we sold earlier this year," says Tom Hartley Jnr, who is responsible for selling the cars.