A review of the cars of the millionaires Tech

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos have enough money as to drive any car that seems to them. However, not all of them demonstrate an excessive passion through the motor world and, for security reasonsvery few of them are allowed to drive their own cars.

Some must settle for appreciating the beauty of their collections of supercar exposed as art pieces in His luxurious garages.

Since these technological magnates were not always as rich as they are now, they have also led utilities without so many power horses, but with many more kilometers more behind them. We discovered what cars the heavyweights of technology have led throughout their lives.

Elon Musk: Hurdly to arrive

As expected, Tesla’s CEO is a big fan of its own vehicles. In 2019, Musk revealed in his X account That his favorite was the Tesla Model S Performance, although he has also led a Model 3 Performance and his security team usually uses the Model X for their displacements. Also assured have driven a Cybertruck after its launch.

However, Musk’s passion for cars is not limited to Tesla. Your collection is much more varied. According The published by GQOne of his first cars was a BMW 310Iof 1978. With the first money he obtained with the investment round of ZIP2, the first company he founded with his brother Kimbal, Musk bought a Jaguar E-Type 1 Roadster Series, according to Walter Isaacson in The last biography of the millionaire.

Nevertheless, The most representative Because of its meaning, McLaren F1 bought in 1999. The car was valued at more than one million dollars and acquired it after selling ZIP2 to Compaq for 307 million dollars, officially becoming a millionaire.

The moment when he received that car I am immortalized In a video. “There are only 62 around the world and one of them is now mine,” said a very young Musk. Later, Musk would crash that car on a Los Angeles highway when he tried to show Peter Thiel that he was not afraid to risk during the merger process of his companies to give rise to PayPal. “It was a miracle that neither of them was injured,” assured Thiel a The New York Times.

Jeff Bezos: The pragmatic

Jeff Bezos is the second greatest fortune in the world, but one of the cars with which he is most related is neither a supercar nor a luxurious Berlina: it is a Honda Accord of 1991, at the same time that Amazon had an estimated capitalization of 30,000 million dollars and its fortune was about 1,000 million dollars. Like Bezos confessed At 60 minutes, “it’s a very good car.” Bezos drove that car until 2013 to go to Amazon offices.

However, the millionaire treasures an impressive collection of exclusive supercar among which, according to Autobildthere is a Ferrari Sergio of limited edition of which there are only six copies; and a Bugatti Veyron link customized by the Mansory coach.

Much more exotic is the Lykan Hypersport of the Lebanese W Motors, like the one who participated in one of the scenes of the saga of ‘Fast & Furious’ jumping between two skyscrapers.

Nor is a Koenigsegg CCXR Trevitavalued at more than four million euros, and a special edition of the Lamborghini Venenoof which there are only six units in the world.

In recent years, the millionaire has been seen driving Rivian electric vehicles, after Amazon became its largest shareholder buying 17% of the electric car manufacturer to make it its main DISTRIBUTION VEHICLE SUPPLIER.

Mark Zuckerberg: Hatchback passionate

Recently Mark Zuckerberg has suffered A change of style which makes it seem “more bad” with gold chains around the neck, Watches valued in millions of dollars and design clothes. In that change, a supercar of Porsche 911 GT3 With Touring Pedigate Personalized by expert television television workshop West Coast Customs.

Such and as he published Business Insiderduring a good part of his career he has been driving several compact vehiclesamong which a black Volkswagen Golf GTI, an Acura TSX (Honda Accord twin) of the same color or a Honda Fit. All of them are cars that did not exceed $ 30,000, but that Zuckerberg already bought as a millionaire.

The Facebook founder published in 2022 a photo in Your Instagram profile in which he showed two Ford Bronco that he had restored for him and his wife Priscilla.

In addition to the two porch that the millionaire recently acquired for him and his wife, in engine journalism they claim that he also owns a Pagani Huayra valued at about two million dollars.

Larry Ellison: Passion for extravagance

The co -founder and president of Oracle is the fourth greatest fortune in the world, so anyone will miss his fortune In extravagances. In addition to having bought an island in Hawaii or investing in the most expensive lettuce in the world, the Millionaire octogenarian also has an impressive supercoches collection.

According to published Los Angeles Times, among the Ellison’s supercar cars collection, models such as the Audi R8, a lexus ls 600h L or a lexus LFA valued at about 350,000 dollars stand out. Nor are exclusive units missing such as the McLaren F1 or a Ferrari Enzo.

However, the greatest eccentricity Ellison has been the purchase of several Acura NSX every year for more than 15 years, which he later gave to his friends. According to Mike Wilson, author of the book ‘Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: Inside Oracle Corporation: Godesn’sn’t Think He’s Larry Ellison ”Ellison was tired of his Ferrari caught fire, so he decided to try an acura (Honda) NSX and had an arrow with him. He especially liked the 1996 model.

Larry Page and Serguéi Brin

The founders of Google, in addition to having a very similar vision on how the network of networks should be organized, also coincided a lot in their taste for sustainable cars.

Both founders have led a stage of their life a Toyota Prius And, when Tesla began presenting her electric car proposals, both Page and Brin were among the first who trusted Tesla cars investing in the company and buying some of the first models that stepped on the asphalt.

Larry Page, meanwhile, was one of the first in Receive a Tesla Roadster In 2008.

However, Brin’s most viral car was, as he counted Forbesthe Tesla Model s of 2013 that Google employees were in charge of “tune” to make it a very personal batmovil. The whole pink car came and added some large bat wings in the rear and the sign of Batman in the Morro, next to long eyelashes that adorned their headlights. It was the day of April Fools (the equivalent in the US to the Holy Innocents) and Google employees take very seriously to spend jokes.

According to published Business InsiderSerguéi Brin was the fourth person to receive his Tesla Model x after its launch in 2015, thus maintaining their commitment to the Sustainable vehicles.

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