The one and only: Steve Jobs' BMW Z8 goes up for auction

According to the auction house RM Sotheby's it is Steve Jobs to purchase BMW Z8 addressed by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. At the time, the two men were good friends, and Larry impressed Steve by saying that it was the very pinnacle of automotive engineering at the time. That's what Steve Jobs ordered silver Z8 s black leather upholstery and got it on October 6, 2000. It was 67. The BMW Z8 that left the production line. It's a bit strange to see a Motorola phone inside a vehicle, but all this was happening 7 years before the arrival of the iPhone, which started the already known revolution in the world of mobile telephony.

At the time it was a BMW Z8 the best, which they did at BMW. The shape is retro-modern and takes inspiration from the BMW 507 that was around in the late 1950s. The Roadster has 4.9-liter 8-cylinder engine from the M5 model at the time and 6-speed manual gearbox. BMW has done it all 5,703 copies of the Z8 model, 2,543 of these were destined for export to the US. Later, production was taken over by Aplina and, with some technological corrections, another 555 were produced.

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The Roadaster Z8 also had a po To Steve Jobs interesting history. This one was in 2003 sold to the new owner, who sold it on after a year or so of use. He regretted this move and convinced his buyer to let him have the car buy back. Technically the fourth, although second owner, kept it until today. The BMW Z8 has a pristine service history and will be auctioned with extra hard roof and stand for her, all manuals, car covers and anything else that will be found. RM Sotheby's will sell the car in Manhattan December 6, 2017. The Z8 will have no restrictions, and they plan to sell it honey 300.000 and 400,000 dollars.

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