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Is this Steve's car?

iPhone Savior believes that they have a picture of Steve Jobs' car. The picture, taken outside of the Yerba Buena Center shortly after the "Let's Rock" event last Tuesday, depicts a Mercedes SL55 AMG without a California license plate.

Why doesn't Steve have a license plate? Well, the old story goes something like this: He convinced the California DMV to allow him a barcode sticker instead of a plate after several incidents of stolen plates. Now, don't take this story to the bank, because there's several versions of it.

iPhone Savior has more pictures posted on their site, along with an in-depth write up about the car in question.

iPhone Savior believes that they have a picture of Steve Jobs' car. The picture, taken outside of the Yerba Buena Center shortly after the...
 

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Brian

I have the same car. That's actually a VIN # placed there by Mercedes...The car has NO TAG at all.

September 15 2008 at 6:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
chad

@Jeremy - Well said; just more TUAW crap. Another reason why this site is becoming more and more irrelevant.

September 15 2008 at 3:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Level 5

I'm with you on this one, Jeremy. I'll sum up this article in 2 bullet points

2 - Steve drives without license plates because he is willing to the accept the consequences, whatever they may be, legal or monetary.

3 - Steve has an expensive whip, because he is successful, and has enough money to do so.

People shouldn't care about this stuff. Any honestly, I was like "hmm.. I wonder if he's thought about a Tesla because he's environmentally conscious and a vegan to boot..", posted as such, and now I don't care. But continuing to comment brightens my day, so I'll do that.

Remember uberfans, Steve Jobs is here to serve YOU, not the otherway around unless you're getting a paycheck out of Cupertino! That why he heads a company that gives you consumer products! Does Steve Jobs care if you like him on a personal level, or idolize him because he drives a Mercedes? No. He wants you to buy an iPod, or a Mac, or recompile your Linux/Windows app to OS X so people have another reason to switch off of a blah blah grey box TO a Mac. He's not your friend, and would probably think you're a stalker if you're in the parking lot snappy shitty pics of his car with your cell phone. If he wasn't about a buck oh five these days, I'd suggest he shove his fist in your mouth if you stalk him.

September 15 2008 at 2:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kevin Lipe

Yeah, that's Steve. I used to be a Mac Genius, and when I was in Cupertino for my two weeks of training, we saw him parking and walking into 1 Infinite Loop every day at 9am sharp. That's definitely his car--I've seen him and seen him driving it.

And he really does park in the handicap spaces. I've also seen him do that. Just about any Apple employee who has been at 1 Infinite Loop in the morning has seen that happen.

September 15 2008 at 10:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jesse

@Ed

No kidding. This site sure does post some worthless fanboy garbage quite often.

September 15 2008 at 10:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Ed

Actually I was reacting more to the comments than the post itself in this case, as Cory was just doing the standard TUAW re-reporting of someone else's story. Although I can't disagree with your point either.

September 15 2008 at 10:44 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ed

Wow, it's no wonder Mac users get hit with the "fanboy" label

September 15 2008 at 9:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Luna Lovegood

"Is this Steve's car?"

Is this a QuotaPost?

September 15 2008 at 9:37 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Hale

LOL I can confirm that that is Steve's car. One time I was "sightseeing" in San Jose, and it "just so happened" I drove past his house. A license-plateless Mercedes that looked exactly like that was in the driveway.

September 15 2008 at 8:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Howie Isaacks

This is just stupid. Why should we really give a damn about Steve's car? I don't give a rat's ass what he drives.

September 15 2008 at 8:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Mr Lizard

But you care enough to comment on it, instead of just scrolling down to the next article....

September 15 2008 at 1:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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