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DID YOU KNOW?

Steve Jobs Avoided Getting a License Plate By Leasing a New Identical Car Every Six Months

by James Plafke | 2:13 pm, October 27th, 2011

High profile businessmen and rich people tend to have their reported quirks. Money allows this sort of thing, but Steve Jobs wasn’t known for any kind of eccentricities that money allows, like having a diamond-plated iPad or something. He did, however, manage to avoid having a license plate on his Mercedes SL55 AMG. This wasn’t made possible because he cut some kind of deal with state government, but because of a loophole in the California vehicle laws that stated a new car has a maximum of six months to be without a license plate. Yes, this is going where you think it is: Steve Jobs cut a deal with a leasing company that allowed him to lease a new Mercedes SL55 AMG every six months so as to avoid having to slap a license plate on the back.

It wasn’t revealed why he didn’t want license plate numbers on his car — one can only assume he didn’t want to be tracked — but, you know, he had an iPhone. I’ll be here all night.

(iTWire via The Next Web)

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  • http://www.facebook.com/dor.green Dor Green

    “its hurts the looks! my god, the numbers are so odd and asymmetrical! just madness!”
    **fires everyone on his way untill someone some one saves themselves and tells him about this deal**

  • http://www.smallfish-bigpond.com/ Kerensky97

    Maybe it was so it was harder to bust him for his horrible driving and parking practices.

  • WakeUpFellowGeeks

    Geeks are so gullible for gossip on Steve Jobs
    Couldn’t sleep so I thought what was the production years of the infamous Steve Jobs SL55 AMG.  It was made up until 2008, and the 2008 was the model year that he drove without the license plates.  Steve was rich, but not totally foolish, he wouldn’t piss away the drive off depreciation of a 130K car every six months.  
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    The SL55 AMG was sold through AMG in the R129 body style from 1998 to 2001 in limited quantity. It was the predecessor of the production R230 SL55 AMG sold from 2002 to 2008.

  • Nick Wilson

    “leasing company” implies that he didn’t buy the cars

  • http://profiles.google.com/joint.striker joint striker

    I suppose this story was somehow different and uninteresting and then blown out of proportion. It doesn’t seem likely at all that this may have happened in real life.


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