Before Tesla, even before PayPal, Elon Musk in 1999 he was selling his company Zip2 for several hundred million dollars, having made himself 22 million from the business. What to do with such a nice sum? Buy a house? Naaaaaa… Come from there a McLaren F1 — wouldn't they make the same choice?
Elon Musk, the “petrolhead”? His vision for the world — renewable energy, electric cars and colonizing Mars — certainly doesn't contemplate a machine like the McLaren F1, but the century. XX was still burning the last cartridges and Musk was not yet 30 years old.
The moment of handing over F1 to Musk was recorded in a documentary at the time about millionaires, as you can see in the highlighted video.
However, Musk would have an accident at the wheel of the McLaren F1 a couple of years later, a moment that we also remember in an interview given by himself in 2012.
Despite the future of the car, according to Elon Musk, being electric, he has two cars with a combustion engine: a Ford Model T and a Jaguar E-Type, as he says, his first love. The McLaren F1? This one was sold.
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