By the time 60 Minutes profiled Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 1999, his net worth was already in the $9 billion range. So you’d expect Bezos to have amassed a luxury car collection by that point, right?
Not so, CBS correspondent Bob Simon found out. Bezos was driving a modest Honda Accord at the time. “This is a perfectly good car,” he told Simon with a hearty laugh. While Bezos may have been comfortable pushing a $2,000 Honda Accord even after his accounts allowed for him to purchase a more luxurious ride, that didn't last long. Let's have a look at Bezos' car collection today. We'll also compare his collection to Elon Musk and Bill Gates.
Jeff Bezos stuck to Hondas even after his net worth grew into the billions.
In the book The Everything Store, Brad Stone reported that Bezos kept driving Hondas until at least 2013, according to CNBC.
According to NaijAuto, the e-commerce titan has more expensive rides in his garage these days. Reportedly, Bezos owns a $3 million Ferrari Pininfarina Sergio, a $3.4 million Bugatti Veyron Mansory, a $4 million W Motors Lykan Hypersport, a $4.8 million Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita, and $5 million Lamborghini Veneno — in addition to his $41 million Dassault Falcon 900 EX private jet.
Elon Musk prefers a Tesla when it comes to his choice in vehicles.
What would it say if Tesla CEO Elon Musk didn’t drive one of his company’s cars? Musk does indeed drive Teslas. In 2019, he revealed on Twitter that he was mainly driving the Model S Performance model with a developer version of the full self-driving computer at the time. “Our new Raven powertain [and] adaptive damping suspension is great!” he added.
In the tweet, he also said that he favored the Model 3P and then the Model X if he’s driving with his kids in tow. “Acceleration is fun on tap!” he wrote.
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However, Musk doesn’t only drive Teslas. He also has a Ford Model T and a Jaguar E-Type Series 1 Roadster, according to Business Insider. In 2013, he paid close to $1 million to buy a Lotus Esprit that Roger Moore drove as 007 in the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me.
“It was amazing as a little kid in South Africa to watch James Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me drive his Lotus Esprit off a pier, press a button and have it transform into a submarine underwater,” Musk said in a statement at the time, per The Guardian. “I was disappointed to learn that it can’t actually transform. What I’m going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it transform for real.”
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When it comes to cars, billionaire Bill Gates chooses Porsche.
According to CNBC, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates bought himself a Porsche 911 supercar in 1979 after the software company started making money. Later, he purchased a Porsche 930 Turbo and a Porsche 959 sports car.
And, true to form, Gates revealed in 2020 that he bought a Porsche Taycan — the German automaker’s first fully-electric sports car — which starts at $150,900. The souped-up electric ride boasts 616 horsepower, a 93-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack, and dual motors that let the Turbo go from 0 to 60 mph in three seconds.
After a Tesla fan account tweeted the news of Gates’ Taycan purchase, Musk tweeted, “My conversations with Gates have been underwhelming, [to be honest].”
Despite his enormous fortune, Bezos was still driving a 1997 Honda Accord years after becoming a billionaire. As of 2013, according to Brad Stone's book “The Everything Store,” he continued driving a Honda. This detail contrasts with the more typical lavish spending habits associated with billionaires.
More than a decade later, Business Insider reported that Bezos continued to drive his Honda Accord well into 2013, according to a passage from the book “The Everything Store” by Brad Stone.
The Amazon founder and former CEO was once famous for his frugal driving habits; according to the book "The Everything Store," as recently as 2013, he would drive a Honda Accord to the office. In 2021, a Blue Origin video showed him behind the wheel of a Rivian R1T electric pickup.
Bezos' biggest move made towards becoming a billionaire was launching Amazon in 1994. Then called “Cadabra” and exclusively an online bookseller, Amazon was born out of a garage space in Bezos' home — a rental — in Bellevue, Washington.
When an interviewer asked about driving an Acura TSX, Mark stated that the car is practical, reliable, and not flashy. Well, that gives you the answer. Mark has owned the Acura for quite some time now. The Acura TSX is a fun car with great engine performance and sharp steering handling.
Kilmer drives a 2003 Honda Accord V-6. He said there is a handful of Hondas with four cylinders that have achieved a million miles. However, he believes his V-6 Accord is the first to go the distance. He reached the milestone after he drove to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Buffett, who's driven a Cadillac for decades, only decided to replace his 2006 model after Barra visited him in his hometown of Omaha in May 2014. The investor's Berkshire Hathaway had invested in GM in 2012.
The top 10 car brands driven by millionaires, according to a Ramsey post on X (formerly Twitter) are:
Toyota. The average price for a Toyota went up to $38,198 in the automaker's second quarter of its 2024 fiscal year, according to Carsdirect, citing Cox Automotive data.
In 1995, Bezos approached his parents with an offer to fund his new website, Amazon.com. They gave him a loan of $245,573, a risky move given the novelty of the Internet at the time. Numerous years and financial decisions later, Bezos's parents have enjoyed substantial returns on their early gamble.
He graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. Bezos founded Amazon in mid 1994 on a road trip from New York City to Seattle.
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, 70, has been deemed the richest woman in the entire world with a net work of $99.5 billion in 2024, according to Forbes. She owes it to the widely known cosmetic care company called L'Oreal, which was founded by her grandfather.
"Actually I own a Tesla Plaid and a Kia EV," he wrote. "I drive the Kia almost exclusively." Cuban told Business Insider in an email that his Kia EV6 provides a better driving experience than his Model X Plaid.
Bezos' lifestyle has evolved over the years. While he maintained certain frugal habits, such as driving a Honda Accord for a considerable period, he has also made significant luxury purchases. For instance, Bezos owns the superyacht Koru, which reportedly cost $500 million.
Mark Zuckerberg's car collection is filled with more practical and daily drivers like the Honda Fit, Acura TSX, VW Golf GTI and a Infiniti G25. While this car collection seems very humble there is one more car in his collection that makes this garage battle quite worth it i.e. his Pagani Huayra.
Buffett's current vehicle, the 2014 Cadillac XTS that he has owned for approximately ten years, is a testament to his reputation for frugality. Despite his ability to afford any luxury car, Buffett drives a vehicle far from the flashy exotic cars one might associate with a billionaire.
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