Amaya Toman Steve Jobs was a very peculiar personality, and a number of more or less bizarre stories are associated with his name. For example, he is famous for his perfectionism and strictness, stories also circulate on the Internet about his unusual eating habits, flirting with hallucinogens ... or perhaps about the bizarre and relatively expensive habit of buying a new car every six months.
Cars of Steve Jobs:
"You Get Nothing"
Steve Jobs actually bought a new car every six months for about three decades. This strange hobby had several causes and, among other things, it was also related to Jobs' daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs.
Jobs met her mother, Chrisann Brennan, during his high school years, and their relationship was quite complicated. In May 1978, Chrisann's daughter Lisa was born. Chrisann initially claimed that Lisa's father was Steve, but he initially refused to submit to a DNA test despite being in contact with Lisa.
In her memoirs, Lisa recalled, among other things, the time when she was about six years old and when she heard her mother tell that Jobs had bought a new car again. "I heard if he scratches it, he'll buy a new one," Chrisann said at the time. When Jobs once took Lisa to a sleepover at a friend's house, she asked him, with childish guile and naivety, if he would dedicate his car to her when she "had enough of it." "Absolutely not," her father replied forcefully. “Do you understand? Nothing. You will get nothing,” he settled her.
The secret of brands
Although Jobs was meticulous and a perfectionist, scratches and defects were certainly not the reason why he so often changed his car for a new piece. The cars that Jobs owned had one distinct feature - they had no license plates. That was the whole secret of changing Jobs' fleet so often. Under California law at the time, owners of new cars had about six months in certain circumstances to get a license plate, and Jobs apparently managed to find a way to get by without the plates for years.
In the eighties of the last century, he liked the Porsche car company, and at the beginning of the new millennium he drove a Mercedes SL55 AMG. He was always loyal to individual brands for quite a long time and always bought almost identical cars.
One can only speculate about the reason for refusing to use license plates - Jobs' obsession with aesthetics and his possible belief that the license plate detracts from the purity of his car's appearance could be behind it. Another variant could be the desire for anonymity, but the possibility that Jobs simply enjoyed this eccentricity is also not excluded.
In this direction, however, the residents of California can no longer follow Jobs - since January 1 this year, all new cars here are required to be equipped with a license plate.
Source: inc itWire
