[Haywood]

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Auction link: https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/N...-bmw-z8/544739

Article: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/30/bmw-...-sothebys.html

The BMW Z8 Steve Jobs owned is going up for sale

You can own the same BMW Z8 convertible the late, iconic entrepreneur and Apple CEO Steve Jobs owned.

It will come at a price, though. Sotheby's, the auction house where the car will be sold, expects Jobs' wheels to go for between $300,000 and $400,000. The BMW will go up for auction on Dec. 6 in New York City.

Jobs, who was famously obsessed with making technology products beautiful and intuitive, unsurprisingly bought a famously elegant convertible.

"Widely considered by many to be one of the most attractive, yet innovative cars of the 2000s, it quickly became a bona-fide modern collectable," Sotheby's says of the BMW Z8.

Jobs liked German manufacturing and design — he also owned a Mercedes-Benz SLs and BMW motorcycles, according to Sotheby's.

The BMW Z8 Jobs owned is silver, "Titanium," with a black leather interior. It has 15,200 miles on it. It comes with a BMW-branded Motorola flip-phone built in, because back in 2000, that was the technology of the day. "Interestingly enough, and perhaps unsurprisingly, Jobs was known to have hated the Motorola phone," Sotheby's says.

BMW designed the Z8 convertible in the 1990s and it went into production in the early 2000s. The particular car owned by Jobs was produced on April 1, 2000 and delivered to Jobs that October 6, according to Sotheby's.

The car comes with sales invoices and California car registration proving Jobs was the first owner.

Jobs was not the only owner of the car. Jobs had the BMW Z8 for three years. He sold it to an owner in Los Angeles in 2003. That owner sold it to a tech executive in San Francisco in 2004. And then, missing the car, the second owner bought the silver convertible back in April 2006.

The fact that Jobs owned this BMW Z8 is pushing the price up. But generally, the BMW Z8 model has, even without the cache of being owned by the famed Apple executive, increased in price, according to Autotrader, an online resource for buying and selling cars.

"The BMW Z8 is worth a ton of money. While other early-2000s BMW models have depreciated quickly, like the used vehicles they are, the Z8 hasn't. In fact, it's done the opposite. The Z8 is a 14-year-old BMW that has gained in value," writes Autotrader's Doug DeMuro.

When the BMW Z8 came out it cost $129,000 and now the convertibles regularly go for more than $200,000, says DeMuro.

"So how did the Z8 do so well on the used market? One reason is, of course, its beautiful styling," says DeMuro. "Effectively a modern take on the gorgeous BMW 507, the Z8 is arguably the most beautiful car of the last 20 years — a vehicle that dabbles in 'retro,' and dabbles in 'futuristic,' and somehow manages to look good doing both."

[6ixSpd]

Timeless.

[ThugzZ BunnY]

such a beautiful car. definitely one of my all time favorite cars.

[Fabs///M]

Amazing

[SpenceRx]

Nice car.I don't personally see the value in a celebrity owned car or anything for that matter. I wonder if it was ever owned by Jon Voight?

[duky]

What a machine. Used to love it when I was a kid and still do

[c63er]

A truly truly incredible machine. Enough good words cannot be said about this car.

A flood of good memories just came in.

This car is a bit of a relic, of a time when BMW cared about being at the pinnacle of engineering and making cars that were fun to drive with precision styling.

[vpatel867]

That is one clean car. It will never age.

"According to legend, Jobs was convinced to buy the Z8 by Larry Ellison the iconoclastic CEO of Oracle, who enthused to Jobs that the car was a paragon of modern automotive engineering and ergonomics," the listing say
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/29...mw-z8-auction/

[MrFargo13]

Originally Posted by SpenceRx

Nice car.I don't personally see the value in a celebrity owned car or anything for that matter. I wonder if it was ever owned by Jon Voight?

Somebody needs to check for pencils in the glove box.

[Haywood]

EAG just sold one for $210k. I wonder how much this one will go for?!

http://enthusiastauto.com/qsearch/?i...orm_display=51

[Haywood]

Originally Posted by MrFargo13

Somebody needs to check for pencils in the glove box.

[LemonOne]

This car has a very special place in my heart.
My BMW dream car.

[Law]

A car like the BMW Z8, it doesn't matter who owned it prior, it is a legendary car in its own right, unless the previous owner was Bond.

[Zirenz2006]

Timeless...hands down one of my favorite BMW's of all time.

[Anthony3DHeli]

The car is amazing!! No doubt the best looking roadster that BMW ever produced! But, cant understand why people would pay more for owning a car that someone famous owned in the past! Seems silly!

[vinylengraver]

There is one for sale right now at the local dealer for half the price:
https://www.urbangarage.com/vehicle/174343/2001-BMW-Z8/
And with the red interior. Just look at this thing.
The word LOVE hardly manages to describe what I feel when thinking about it...

[ORIGIN M.]

Completely Epic and Timeless Design.

Interesting factoid Jobs mostly bought German.

[mrmoua2u]

Ill take the phone..lol

[ORIGIN M.]

Originally Posted by mrmoua2u

Ill take the phone..lol

It no longer works lol

[RBNetEngr]

One of my favorite memories is riding along for a lap of the Nurburgring, in an Alpina Z8, driven by Andy Bovensiepen. What an awesome experience.

The Z8 is, and will always be, one of BMW's great designs.

-rb

[wdb]

Red one on BaT now with 510 miles. Hardtop was never removed!

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2003-bmw-z8-2/

[DETRoadster]

I wonder if the Z8 plus the Motorola somehow attributed to the birth of the i-phone. Imagine Steve in his Z8, admiring the timeless lines and styling, the function, the form, only to be interrupted by a call coming into his Motorola flip phone. "The world deserves better. I can do better." He thinks to himself. What if I made a phone with the styling and functionality of my Z8? And the rest is history.