9.He’s a fan of James Bond
He bought in an auction the car that had been used in the James Bond film.
The story made headlines because originally, it was a couple who found this car abandoned and bought it for$100. After retyping it and not knowing that it had been the subject of a mythical film, she put it up for auction.
That’s where Musk bought it for $ 1 million. He said he bought the car because he grew up seeing James bond movies.
At the company’s annual shareholder meeting, when asked whether the company ever plans to develop a water car, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company had even already created a design inspired by James Bond’s Lotus spirit underwater car, featured in Roger Moore’s The Spy Who Loved Me.
In this 70s spy movie quoted by Musk, there is a scene in which the car he is talking about, a 1976 Lotus Esprit sports car, turns into a submarine before throwing itself into the ocean.
