Footballers’ rides at Stansted

Dan Trent writes:

Footballers eh. Nothing if not predictable in their car choices. Proof? Arriving at the private Inflite terminal at Stansted en route to the SEAT Alhambra launch this morning there was no room at the inn for the motoring hacks. Instead ranks and ranks of BMW X6s, Overfinch Range Rovers, Bentleys and other exotica, most bearing aftermarket wheels of some description of a diameter of 20 inches at least.

Yup, had to be footballers. Unless my fellow hacks have suddenly developed a taste for bling.

Footballers it was, Tottenham’s as it turns out.

And boy are they shameless. Surprisingly there were just a couple of supercars – an Aston DBS and a Lamborghini Gallardo – and a couple of Bentleys. The rest? SUVs, the bigger and more ostentatious the better. No fewer than nine Range Rovers, four of them Overfinch versions. Three X6s, one with a pretty outrageous Lumma widebody kit and carbon bonnet. Standard X6s being usually so shy and retiring of course. And an AMG G-Wagen too of course, on stupidly big wheels, natch.

My interest in football is such that I’m afraid you’re on your own if you want to try and match the cars up with the players who own them. But feel free to speculate!

More pics below…

Dan