Steve Jobs notoriously drove an unregistered silver Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG for years by actively exploiting a bizarre California legal loophole that gave him six months to attach a license plate.

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Steve Jobs notoriously drove an unregistered silver Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG for years by actively exploiting a bizarre California legal loophole that gave him six months to attach a license plate. Instead of just paying the registration fee like a normal citizen, he arranged a continuous lease agreement with a dealership to trade in his car for an identical brand-new model every exact six months. This let him park in handicapped spots and speed around Silicon Valley without ever having an identifiable plate on his vehicle. It takes a very special kind of billionaire to engineer a complex rotating lease agreement for luxury sports cars purely because they think the aesthetic of a standard metal license plate ruins the vibe of their bumper!