Sand Hill Road.
You can find several stories about the engineer Elon Musk.
One of them took place on and around the Sand Hill Road
in California. It goes like this:
A 28-year-old Elon wanted to buy a new car. The price
of the car wasn’t important because he didn’t need to think
about money anymore. He had just made $22 million from
selling his company.^327 His garage had already included a
1967 Series 1 E-type Jaguar, which is considered to have the
best car design ever made. Now he wanted the fastest car
he could find.
A magnesium silver McLaren F1 met his requirements.
The British made McLaren F1 is essentially a road-ready
version of a racing car from the Formula One World
Championship. With a top speed of 231 mph [372 km/h],
it set a record in 1998 as the fastest road car in the world.
It only takes 3.2 seconds to reach 60 mph [100 km/h].
It was a close call when Elon bought his dream car.
The fashion designer Ralph Lauren tried to buy the same
one, but Elon signed the deal one hour earlier.^263 When
McLaren began selling it, the fortunate customers paid one
million dollars to get one. But since only 106 cars were
ever manufactured, the price today can be as high as four
million dollars. Elon bought number 67.^10