Boss of supercar hire firm ‘failed to deliver Ferraris and Lamborghinis’

The boss of a supercar hire firm failed to deliver Ferraris and Lamborghinis to customers while splashing cash at Harrods, Gucci and Prada.

Andrew Brown’s firm Classic Parade Ltd offered luxury motors to brides and grooms, influencers and terminally ill people wanting to ride in a supercar.

Brown, 46, billed his company ‘the UK’s #1 Supercar Hire Service’… and ‘the largest collection of supercars ready to hire with next day nationwide delivery’.

The company allegedly cancelled bookings at short notice for ‘spurious reasons’ and issue refunds – leaving its customers in the lurch – including one groom on his wedding day.

The director failed to engage with investigators, meet any Companies House filing obligations, and the company had no genuine presence at its address in Knightsbridge, according to the Insolvency Service.

The company was formally wound up in the Rolls Building at the High Court.

Insolvency Service officials are investigating Classic Parade Ltd after £1.4m passed through company bank accounts without explanation and failed to honour agreements with customers.

Brown, who brazenly portrays himself as a ‘scammer’ on his Instagram account Doctor Troller – (https://www.instagram.com/doctortroller/), poses with women in bikinis shaking their backsides.

In one short video the company director declares: ‘I’m a Nigerian, of course I like scams and corruption,’ and adds ‘I’m Nigerian, of course I lie to dates for sex’.

Operating from a Knightsbridge address – although having no physical presence there – at least 48 complaints were made to Action Fraud, with alleged losses totalling £220,675.

Complainants included a customer who had booked a Mercedes G63 AMG for his wedding day, and another who had arranged a luxury hire as a special gift for a terminally ill family member.

At the same time, company bank records showed personal spending at Harrods, Gucci and Prada, which Brown has failed to explain, according to the Insolvency Service.

Judge Sally Barber said Classic Parade Ltd operated as ‘an advanced fee fraud’ and was a ‘continuing risk to the public’.

She said: ‘The company has been operating an advanced fee fraud taking substantial amounts from members of the public for hire of luxury vehicles, cancelling at the last minute for spurious reasons, and promising refunds and failing to supply them.’

The reasons for cancelling the supply of the luxury motors included ‘engine management lights, drivetrain faults, punctures or breakdowns’.

The judge added: ‘I’ve found there is no evidence of legitimate trading. The company’s lack of commercial probity is a striking feature of this case.’

Sally Walker, for the Insolvency Service, said Classic Parade’s website describes the company as the UK’s ‘number one chauffeuring and supercar hire service, celebrating 20 years of service.’

It claimed to have offices in Knightsbridge, Manchester and Edinburgh.

Insolvency Service investigators identified at least 14 customers who paid hire charges and security deposits for services which were never delivered, the court heard.

In each case, Classic Parade Ltd cancelled the booking shortly before it was due to begin, citing reasons including mechanical faults, engine management lights, insurance issues or security checks on payments.

Customers were offered refunds, but these were not paid.

Twelve County Court judgments totalling £66,225 were registered against the company between September 2023 and October 2024 by customers attempting to recover their money.

Evidence was uncovered of the company behaving aggressively towards customers who posted negative reviews online, threatening legal action against them.

In one case, the director threatened to post damaging reviews of a customer’s own business unless the negative review was removed.

Investigators were also unable to establish the full extent of Classic Parade Ltd’s trading.

More than £1.4m passed through its bank accounts, but the director failed to provide any information to explain these transactions, or attend an interview with the Insolvency Service.

Some customers had also been directed to make payments to third-party accounts, including one in the name of ‘Classic Parade Competitions’ and in some cases directly into the director’s personal account, rather than to the company itself.

Payments of £166,893 were made to the director personally, a further £121,847 to what the Insolvency Service understands is his partner, Maya Murad, and £28,154 on apparent personal expenditure at retailers including Harrods, Gucci and Prada.

No evidence was supplied that any of these payments were for business purposes.

The company failed to file any accounts or confirmation statements at Companies House, and one of its bank accounts was closed in February 2025.

It also had no genuine presence at its registered Knightsbridge address despite promising customers they could visit in person.

Brown did not attend the hearing and has not made any attempt to engage with the Insolvency Service, the court heard.

Miss Walker said ‘The investigation has identified total receipts through the company’s four known bank accounts of approximately £1.4million, with £316,984 seemingly having been paid out to the benefit of Mr Brown and his partner’.

She said the company also ‘aggressively’ threatened customers who left bad reviews on TrustPilot and Google review websites with legal action, accusing them of blackmail, ‘to preserve its rating’.

The company, and its website classicparade.com, was incorporated by Brown who is the sole director.

Since being incorporated by Brown the company has had 12 County Court judgments against it between September 2023 and 26 October 2024.

‘The company and Mr Brown have failed entirely to cooperate with the investigation’.

Miss Walker added: ‘No response was received to any correspondence and neither Mr Brown nor anyone from the company attended for interview’.

She said the company is ‘utilising the website to market non existent services’.

The Official Receiver has been appointed liquidator of Classic Parade Ltd.

Joanna Caswell, Chief Investigator at the Insolvency Service, said: ‘Classic Parade Ltd presented itself as a prestigious supercar hire business, but our investigation found a very different picture.

‘Customers who had saved for special occasions, including a wedding and a gift for a terminally ill family member, were left out of pocket and without the experience they had paid for.

‘The winding-up of this company should serve as a warning that the Insolvency Service will act where businesses fail to operate with basic honesty and transparency.’
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