Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs' Bond Car Expected To Fetch $400,000 At Auction





Apple founder Steve Jobs was best known in car circles for driving around in a Mercedes AMG SL55 without any numberplates on thanks to a loophole he exploited in the vehicle registration rules in California. However, when Jobs purchased the BMW Z8 in the year in the year 2000, he ended up registering the car, which he ended up holding onto for 3 years, which was quite unusual considering he usually kept cars for about 6 months to exploit California's car registration laws.



Now, that BMW Z8 owned by Steve Jobs is set to go under the hammer on December 6 at RM Sotheby's New York 'ICONS' auction. Jobs received his Z8 on October 6, 2000 and the roadster was the 67th customer car and 85th Z8 produced for the first year of U.S.-specification production.


The BMW Z8 was designed by Henrik Fisker (also known for designing the Aston Martin DB11 among many other bewitching cars) and its all-aluminium chassis and body was spirited forward by a 4.9-litre naturally aspirated V8 engine that produced 402bhp and 500Nm of torque, which was sent to the rear wheels via a 6-speed manual gearbox.

The Jobs Z8 came with a host of accessories including the hardtop roof with its stand, car cover, owner's and service manuals, service records, two keys, navigation CDs, and the BMW-branded Motorola flip-phone. The last accessory was something that Jobs hated and it's no wonder the iPhone came out a few years after he ditched the Z8 for his endless lineup of SL Mercs.

 Jobs wasn't the only high profile driver of the Z8. Fictional British superspy, James Bond drove the Z8 in the movie The World Is Not Enough, where it sported surface-to-air-missiles amongst its many features which were added to it by Q.
 Unfortunately for the Z8, an extremely large circular saw cutting through its centre ensured that Bond never drove it again.






The Jobs' BMW Z8 will hit the auction block on December 6, 2017, where it is expected to fetch between $300,000-400,000 (Rs 1.94-2.59 crore). The price seems to be quite a bit for a 17-year-old Z8 with almost 24,500 kilometres on the clock and four former owners (technically three, as the third owner sold the car back to the person he bought the car from).
However, for the ultimate Apple petrolhead fanboy, this may just be the closest they can get to the former founder of the world's largest and best-known tech company, who passed away on October 5, 2011 at the age of 56, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.



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