How did Steve Jobs get away with not having a California (or any other U.S. state’s) license plate on his Mercedes SL55 AMG?
“Steve (or someone close to him) spotted a loophole in the California vehicle laws,” David Heath reports for iTWire. “Anyone with a brand new car had a maximum of six months to affix the issued number plate to the vehicle.”
Heath reports, “So Jobs made an arrangement with the leasing company; he would always change cars during the sixth month of the lease, exchanging one silver Mercedes SL55 AMG for another identical one. At no time would he ever be in a car as old as six months; and thus there was no legal requirement to have the number plates fitted.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Mystery solved!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Sarah” for the heads up.]