Clout-starved influencers are hiring people to drive them around in £500,000 supercars before hiding to look like they can drive, a rental boss has revealed.

The shameless social media wannabes now outnumber genuine motorists at luxury car hire firms, where engines have become ‘secondary to the engagement’.

Bosses say many of the flashy motors, from Lamborghinis to Rolls-Royces, are not hired to be driven at all, but used as stage props to impress followers online.

Some clients, often young entrepreneurs who made fast money in crypto, gaming or modelling, even demand cars are parked outside swanky Mayfair hotels so they can film themselves ‘arriving’ for a night of luxury partying.

Starr Luxury Cars boss Ike Ordor said his industry has been ‘transformed’ by social media.

Speaking to M

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