To be auctioned at Sothebys in New York on December 6th. Their ad is below:
Steve Jobs' 2000 BMW Z8:
A Car as Innovative as Its Owner
Imagine you’re a tech titan in the year 2000. You’ve just returned to the company you helped create. Change is the only constant. And thanks to your exacting, innovative vision, you’re about to revolutionize the way people communicate—again.
What do you do when it’s time to buy a new car?
Steve Jobs, Apple’s visionary co-founder, reportedly found himself taking advice from Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, who convinced Jobs the BMW Z8 was the paragon of modern automotive engineering and reflective of his own products and psyche.
This is that Z8—and it’ll be offered without reserve at RM Sotheby’s ICONS this 6 Decemeber in New York.
2000 BMW Z8
Chassis No. WBAEJ1340YAH60085
Estimate: $300,000 - $400,000
Offered Without Reserve
A pop-culture symbol in its own right, the Z8 was the Bond car of its time, and Jobs ordered his Z8 in the style of his understated and minimalist products and stereotypical dress: Titanium paint over Black leather. He held on to the Z8 for nearly three years, unlike the many other vehicles he owned for less than six months at a time.
Offered with a plethora of important accessories, including its proper hardtop and hardtop stand, car cover, owner’s and service manuals, two keys, and navigation CDs, the Z8 also comes with its BMW-branded Motorola cell phone—a technological feature Jobs is known to have hated, which may have been the impetus behind his drive to revolutionize the mobile phone.
Joe