Before electric cars became a reality, Elon Musk already owned several cars running internal combustion engines.

BMW 320i 1978

Elon Musk once came up with the idea of buying a cheap BMW 320i car – at that time BMW did not have the extremely high status it has today.

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Unfortunately, however, his first car had a sad end when an intern in Musk’s first company crashed it.

McLaren F1 1997

A CNN camera crew captured Elon Musk owning a McLaren F1. After a series of big wins in Silicon Valley, young entrepreneur Elon Musk wants to reward himself with a McLaren F1.

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The McLaren F1 that day cost $815,000 and was called the “million-dollar supercar.” McLaren F1 is Elon Musk’s first supercar.

Unfortunately, then the F1 car crashed and in 2007, Musk sold it. McLaren produced only 106 F1 cars. Musk’s F1 was number 067 and was among 7 imported to the US at that time.

Lotus Esprit “Wet Nellie” 1976

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Elon Musk admits to being an avid James Bond fan after spending nearly a million dollars in 2013 to own a Lotus Esprit S1 modified into a Wet Nelli – James Bond’s underwater diving car in the episode The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).

Theo phong cách James Bond cổ điển, chiếc xe có nguồn gốc từ Lotus Esprit có thể chuyển sang lội nước chỉ bằng một nút bấm.

Audi Q7 2010

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Elon Musk từng sở hữu một chiếc Audi Q7, một trong những chiếc SUV sang trọng nhất phù hợp với đại gia đình của Musk.

Tuy nhiên, doanh nhân này không ấn tượng với sự sang trọng của Audi vào thời điểm đó, ông mô tả chiếc xe là “đặc biệt kinh khủng”. Ghi nhớ các vấn đề với Q7, Elon Musk đã thiết kế chiếc SUV điện của riêng mình.

BMW M5 2006

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BMW M5 là một chiếc xe mạnh mẽ, hiệu suất của “con quái vật” này đã truyền cảm hứng cho Elon Musk cài đặt “Ludicrous Mode” trong Tesla Model S.

1920 Ford Model T

The Ford Model T was one of the most influential cars of the 20th century. The Model T made mass-produced cars available to the public, and every automaker has Henry Ford to thank for that.

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Elon Musk has named his cars in the same format as the Model T, bearing the name ‘model’ followed by a letter or alphabet on the nameplate.

1967 E-Type Jaguar Roadster

Many teenagers today dream of owning a Tesla, but the Tesla CEO as a teenager had a dream of owning one of the best classic sports cars, the Jaguar E-type. But it disappointed him.

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The E-Type Jag kept failing, so it was called a “bad girlfriend” by Elon Musk.