Steve Jobs bought the same car every six months for this curious reason: the secret was in the license plate.

Within the world of technology, Steve Jobs has been one of the industry's most illustrious figures. His personality and ideas have taken Apple, the company he founded, to the top, as they remain the leader and benchmark for the most important device in our lives: mobile phones.

Thanks to him (and of course the entire team that surrounded him), Apple is one of the great technology companies of our time, and all of this has led to everything Jobs did being studied and analyzed.

Over time, we've discovered darker aspects of the magnate, such as the fact that he wasn't as kind to his employees as many thought, and other "secrets" and habits. For example, a story recently emerged about a curious habit he had when it came to cars.

Thanks to his fortune, Steve Jobs could buy any car he wanted, and among all the cars he collected over the years, one that stands out is his special relationship with one model in particular : a Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG. This model cost around €120,000, which might not have meant much to Jobs. However, the curious thing is that he would change this car every six months to buy the exact same model.

Two cars a year, it wasn't a question of him getting bored of it, as he would buy the same one again, but there was an interesting reason for it, and the secret was in the license plate.

Especially for wealthy people, the saying "when the law is made, the trap is set" is very useful, and this is a clear example of it. The truth is, we have to go back to the 1990s, to an old California law that allowed new vehicles to circulate on public roads for six months without a license plate.

This led the Apple founder to decide to change his car every six months, so he wouldn't have to register it. This wasn't a matter of skipping the registration process or anything like that, but rather a way to guarantee his privacy and prevent people from knowing it was his car, just as no one could see his name on vehicle registration documents.

For many years, Jobs changed his car every six months, and even had an agreement with the dealership so that every six months he would automatically be given a new Mercedes , just like the previous one, but with the caveat that it didn't have to be registered.