A self-styled "rich kid of Instagram" who boasted on social media about driving expensive cars has seen four vehicles he used, worth more than £500,000 ($850,000), destroyed in arson attacks in just one week.

Aleem Iqbal, who calls himself “Lord Aleem”, works for his father’s luxury car hire firm and shows off about his access to the upmarket motors on Instagram, the photo sharing site.

The 19-year-old leased a new £340,000 Lamborghini Aventador Roadster for a wedding on June 6 but it was torched a few hours later outside a house in Luton, Beds.

Three hooded men pulled up to the house around 1am in a Mercedes 4x4 and doused the Lamborghini in petrol, CCTV images revealed.

The following week three more of his luxury cars, worth £200,000, were destroyed in a second attack close to his father’s Platinum Executive Travel firm in Yardley, Birmingham.

Two Audi R8 Spyder supercars and a Bentley Flying Spur were burned out and the attack was again caught on CCTV.

The clip shows two people walking up to the three cars before they were apparently set alight.

Mr Iqbal, who regularly posts updates about his life on Twitter and Facebook, said: "I'm not really in a great state of mind at the moment, I've had half a million pounds worth of cars destroyed in the last few days.

"I'm not sure if it’s an attack on my family because they would have come directly after me or my family if that was the case.

"However, I do believe it could be a vile act of jealously towards my business or it could just be mindless vandals on an arson spree.

"Either way, one thing is for sure they will be caught and when they do I suggest you sit back and enjoy the show because they will be going down for a long time."

After the first attack, Aleem from Solihull, West Mids, said: "Fortunately the driver was in the house at the time but this could have endangered lives, there could have been dead bodies.

"These arsonists really don't know what they could have caused.

"When I was told about what happened I felt the ground beneath me move.

"It has taken a lot of hard work and effort to get where we are and we cannot take a loss of £340,000.

"I thought it would be toast but the passenger seat and dashboard is damaged so hopefully we should be able to get it back onto the road within four weeks."

The company run by Mr Iqbal’s father Saleem, 43, leases Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini, Ferrari and Bentley cars.

A Platinum Executive Travel spokesman said: "We're sure that the people who did this will be caught and that justice will be done.

"We're the market leaders in the premium car hire industry and this is bad for us."

West Midlands Police said: "An investigation is underway into a suspected arson attack at the Holiday Inn Express Car Park on Coventry Road.

"The three vehicles were well alight when officers arrived and are estimated to be worth more than £200,000.

"Officers have recovered CCTV that shows two offenders setting the vehicles alight at around 12.20am.

"We would urge anyone who saw anybody acting suspiciously late on Wednesday or in the early hours of Thursday morning to contact the investigation team in Stechford."