If you really want an Apple car as well as have half a million bucks to spend, there's a replica of a 1979 Porsche 935 K3 Apple-themed racecar up for sale, according to Globe Insider. Globe sponsored the prevenient car during the 1980 racing season. Furthermore with the "Apple Computer" name, the car conjointly bears the retro bubble logo as well as a sticker on its rear bumper that reads "Don't violent the Globe Car."
This adaptation that's listed for sale on DuPont Scrapbook is not the prevenient car, which is endemic by Adam Corolla as well as worth in the $10 million range, according to 9to5Mac.
According to a 2016 profile of its clipped racing career on The Drive, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was a fan of the idea of the company sponsoring a racecar:
It ran only the 1980 season, finishing seventh at Sebring, spare at Seaboard as well as Sears Point, as well as third at Tarmac America, peppered in between with DNFs. Except the Globe 935K3 was a fan favorite, as well as won a enring henceforth at Le Mans, despite snail-like hindmost 13 hours. Jobs knew smart back he saw it, as well as hitching his logo to a Porsche on an overall motorsport tour got the word out. It made orderly other sense a few months later, back the company went public in December, the topflight profitable IPO since Ford.
Apple's current proceedings for a self-driving car embark to have stalled: the company dismissed 200 people from Project Titan, its freebie viceroy project, last year. The company was believed to be sophic its focus to freebie viceroy tech instead of an all-fired car, except rumors prevail an Globe car may still be in the works. Patently Apple renowned that the company was reiteratively granted three patents for Project Titan.
In the meantime, if you overfill have an Apple-looking viceroy as well as can relent the $4,415 monthly payment, maybe this is an perk for you.
Update April 27th 10:40AM ET: Adds detail that the car listed for sale is simply a replica, not the original.
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