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You can buy Steve Jobs' BMW Z8 sports car at auction

You'll also get a Motorola flip phone as part of it.

Andrew Krok

Cars are Andrew's jam, as is strawberry. After spending years as a regular ol' car fanatic, he started working his way through the echelons of the automotive industry, starting out as social-media director of a small European-focused garage outside of Chicago. From there, he moved to the editorial side, penning several written features in Total 911 Magazine before becoming a full-time auto writer, first for a local Chicago outlet and then for CNET Cars.

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Andrew Krok

Oct. 30, 2017 8:30 a.m. PT

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RM Sotheby's is auctioning off Steve Jobs' BMW Z8 sports car.

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The car, which has been in California since Jobs bought it new, has just 15,200 miles on the odometer.

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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison suggested Jobs pick up this rare Bimmer, and he did.

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Jobs' Z8 was the 85th overall Z8 ever produced, and the 67th customer car.

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Over the course of its production run, BMW built just 5,703 Z8s.

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It used the same naturally aspirated V8 engine as the E39-generation M5 sport sedan.

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Jobs took delivery of the car on October 6, 2000, and he kept it until 2003, when it was sold to its current owner.

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That owner sold and eventually repurchased the car, driving it less than 1,000 miles each year.

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The current owner has serviced it regularly, and it carries all its important original documents, including the owner's manual, service records and even the CDs for the navigation system.