If anyone regularly sees Steve Jobs in a car, that doesn’t mean it’s the same car, even if it’s still the same model and color – Photo: Luxury Launches
Steve Jobs is one of the most prominent figures in the world of technology and innovation. However, he is also famous for being a difficult person. Although personality has helped drive the development of groundbreaking products, it has also led to conflicts not only with employees but also with family members.
In her memoir about Steve Jobs called Small Fry , Lisa Brennan-Jobs wrote about her troubled relationship with her father. Including the story revolving around Steve Jobs’s precious Porsche.
Don’t give a Porsche to your daughter
Lisa wrote that when she was 7 years old, Steve started “dropping by occasionally, once a month.” Those times, he always arrived in a black convertible Porsche. Father and son will go roller skating together in the area near their home.
Lisa was a child with her father Steve. In fact, Steve Jobs once denied that she was his daughter. However, after constant lawsuits, he finally admitted her – Photo: All about Steve Jobs
However, one night, Lisa overheard her mother and her then-boyfriend talking, including Steve buying a new Porsche every time it got scratched.
Knowing this, one day Lisa mustered up the courage to ask if her father could give her the Porsche back when she bought a new car.
” Of course not , he said in such a critical and harsh tone that I knew I had made a mistake. I just realized that the rumors about him weren’t necessarily true, at least about the car scratches. He will not buy new things. At that time, I understood that he was a very judgmental person when it came to money, food and words,” she wrote.
Give Porsche to employees
While eliminating his daughter’s desire to inherit a Porsche, the tech genius once gave one to a 23-year-old young man. The reason he is an excellent salesman.
In 1984, Pertino co-founder and CEO Craig Elliott was working at a local computer retailer after taking a year off from school. He sold more Macintosh computers than anyone in America. This helped him get invited to Cupertino, Apple’s headquarters. Not only did he have dinner with Steve Jobs, but he was also given the keys to a Porsche sports car .
Don’t give a car to your daughter even if you don’t use it anymore, but Steve Jobs gives it to an excellent sales person – Photo: Luxury Launches
The truth about the rumor that if you keep scratching, you will change your car
Although the story that Steve Jobs replaced his Porsche convertible every time it got scratched may be just a rumor, it is true that he continuously replaced one black Porsche 911 with another black 911.
This habit does not only apply to Porsche 911. After many years with Porsche, Steve Jobs switched to using Mercedes-Benz SL55. And then, every 6 months, he buys another Mercedes-Benz SL55 of the same color.
According to Luxury Launches , this habit has nothing to do with scratches, but rather because Steve hates license plates .
Steve Jobs used to constantly use a black Porsche 911 – Photo: Autoweek
Back then, the state of California allowed a person to own a car without a license plate for 6 months. For that reason, Steve Jobs agreed with a rental company to continuously replace the SL55 every 180 days so he could drive without a license plate, until his death. Jon Callas, who worked with Steve at Apple, corroborated this story.
The car rental company must be very interested in this, as they constantly have a source of “new cars” from Steve Jobs and sell them when he is no longer interested.
Steve Jobs didn’t just change cars constantly. Parking in the slot for disabled people is a habit of his that many people criticize – Photo: Luxury Launches