25 cars only the most powerful drive in the world
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- 25 Oprah Winfrey — Tesla Model S
- 24 Madonna - Jaguar XJ
- 23 Bill Gates - Porsche
- 22 Michael Jordan – Extensive Car Collection
- 21 Beyoncé - 1959 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud
- 20 Mark Zuckerberg - Honda Fit, Golf GTi, Acura
- 19 Tiger Woods – Mercedes S65 AMG
- 18 Pope Francis – Mercedes, Jeep Wrangler, Hyundai Santa Fe
- 17 Warren Buffett — Cadillac
- 16 Timothy Cook - BMW 5 Series
- 15 Mary Barra – Corvette Z06
- 14 Benjamin Netanyahu – Audi A8
- 13 Phil Knight – Audi R8 FSI Quattro
- 12 Number Carlos Slima – Bentley Continental
- 11 Theresa May - BMW 7 Series
- 10 Ivanka Trump – Suburbia
- 9 Taylor Swift - "Mercedes-Benz Viano"
- 8 Lakshmi Mittal – Rolls-Royce EWB Phantom
- 7 JK Rowling – Rolls-Royce Phantom
- 6 Tsai Ying-wen
Power almost always goes hand in hand with wealth, no matter the setting. Whether it's business, politics, or religion, even within a community, the most powerful and influential people seem to attract wealth and riches. However, this power does not necessarily mean that which is applied to the population or resources, it is more like a tool to help people change the world for the better and change the world. There are those who use their power and influence for the benefit of others, and the extreme cases are those who use it to exploit them instead, so our list has both. But good and bad can be relative depending on the eye of the beholder.
For a long time, Forbes has compiled lists of the world's most powerful and influential people, and among them are those whose names are almost never overlooked. From media personalities to presidents, musicians, actors/actresses, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, techies and more, these people continue to influence others not only in how they think and what they do, but also in what they do with their money. like where they live. what they eat, their fashion tastes and, most importantly, their cars. By now, you can probably guess five or so unmissable names on the list of the most powerful people in the world, but you also probably don't know what they ride these days. Just so you know, because they are VIPs, their cars are personalized and equipped with unique safety accessories and comfort amenities not found in regular cars. Let's dive in!
25 Oprah Winfrey — Tesla Model S
"Take the car!" At one point, Oprah Winfrey, a media mogul and talk show host, was known for wowing her TV viewers with cars. You never knew when you'd be on this special show, but those who were left with a brand new car could actually drive a car. Oprah's lifestyle matches her bank account, from her many multi-million dollar homes to her favorite things to her expensive cars.
If you're an avid fan of Oprah, then you know about her newly acquired white Tesla Model S, which she talks about on her Instagram page.
But this is not the only car she had. She usually drives a black SUV, but she has owned other cars before, including classics like a 1996 Bentley Azure, a red 1956 Ford Thunderbird, and a red Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing.
24 Madonna - Jaguar XJ
This chick never gets old! If you lived through the 80s, then you know that Madonna Louise Ciccone, also known as the "Queen of Pop" or "Madge", ruled the airwaves in a male-dominated music scene. The pop artist "Like a Virgin" became a sensation and released hit after hit, topping the Billboard charts year after year. This elevated her to the ranks of the rich and famous people of the world, and today she is the most powerful and wealthy female musician on the planet. With a net worth of around $800 million, Madonna indulges in clothes, shoes, New York real estate, fine art and cars. She had a $40,000 black Mini Cooper S, but she also owns a black Jaguar XJ, Maybach 57, Audi A8 and BMW 7 series.
23 Bill Gates Porsche
Is there anything material on Earth that Bill Gates couldn't afford? He was the richest man in the world four times in a row! His daily routine is nothing out of the ordinary, as it includes working out on the treadmill, playing tennis or bridge, reading, and a bowl of Cocoa Puffs or a cheeseburger. But what does the richest person drive?
Gates has a Porsche collection that includes a 911, a 930 and one of only 337 rare Porsche 959s ever made.
The 959 is very special to him, not only because he paid a hefty $1 million for it, but also because he even pushed for the Show and Show Act just for that model. After a decade of waiting, he finally got a car that hits 0 mph in 60 seconds and has a top speed of XNUMX mph.
22 Michael Jordan - Extensive Car Collection
His Royal Airness fortune is estimated at $1 billion and continues to grow. While he may not be the richest person on the planet, he has been on the Forbes list of the richest people in the world for two consecutive years and among the top ten richest black billionaires in the world. Jordan - arguably the greatest basketball player of all time - made his fortune from advertising, a high-end line of basketball shoes, several restaurants, a car dealership, and owning the NBA's Charlotte Hornets, making him the first ever basketball player. billionth athlete in the world. The 54-year-old gearbox drives a Cadillac XLR, but his collection included Corvettes, Porsches (911, 930, 964 and 993) and Ferraris, some of which he didn't own or drive for long. Others include a Bentley Continental GT Coupe and a 1993 Corvette ZR-1, both of which he sold to the Volvo Automotive Museum in Illinois, and a limited edition Mercedes SLR 722.
21 Beyoncé - 1959 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud
This lady is the embodiment of female power and the envy of millions of women and young girls around the world. So it's no surprise that as one of the richest musicians in the world, she owns some of the most incredibly expensive supercars. If you compare her husband's Pagani Zonda F and Bugatti Veyron (which she gave him for his 41st birthday) to her cars, her cars may not match.
Beyoncé drives a Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR, one of only 3,500 cars ever made, making it a rare and elite vehicle.
Her vintage 1959 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud was a gift from Jay-Z for her 25th birthday. This luxurious car features a fine blue leather interior with custom embroidery, making it a vehicle fit for Queen B herself. Together they have a family van, a Mercedes Benz Sprinter limousine that has Direct TV, Wi-Fi, a full bathroom with toilet, sink and shower, and a $150,000 stereo.
20 Mark Zuckerberg — Honda Fit, Golf GTi, Acura
By the time you reach the status of a billionaire, you have probably tried everything in the world, and it seems that nothing interesting is gone. This would be true if you were over 80, but not Zuckerberg.
The creator of Facebook is only 34 years old and has a net worth of over $70 billion, making him the fifth richest person in the world!
But what does he do with his money? He gets the Honda Fit, Volkswagen Golf GTi and Acura! Grrr. This guy can buy any fancy and super fast car he wants, but he chooses regular cars that fill the traffic on weekdays. But wait - he owns a $1.3 million Italian-made Pagani Huayra two-seat sports car that he apparently paid for. This is probably a gem in his car collection as it has a 6 liter V12 engine with 720 horsepower and is totally worth the money spent.
19 Tiger Woods – Mercedes S65 AMG
The last thing we all remember about Tiger Woods and cars is when he was arrested in Jupiter, Florida after being found in his 2015 Mercedes S65 AMG. Woods was suspected of drunk driving, but the car was badly cracked before being picked up by the cops that night. The huge black luxury sedan is powered by a 12-liter twin-turbocharged V6 engine with 621 horsepower. worried about it. The front tires were torn and the alloy wheels badly bent and deflated—very ugly for a car like this. Well, he may have all the money to find a replacement, but he could actually get an assigned driver instead.
18 Pope Francis – Mercedes, Jeep Wrangler, Hyundai Santa Fe
The leader of the Catholic faith values humility above all else. Every time he travels, he drives the famous Popemobile, which has changed over the years, but the brand that always gets the job done is Mercedes (although he had a Jeep Wrangler and a Hyundai Santa Fe). What shocked the world was that Lamborghini gave him a special Huracan built just for him, but he decided to auction it off with the proceeds going to the Pontifical Foundation - so sweet of him. He said it hurts when he sees a priest or a nun with a late-model car, adding that if Church members have to choose a car, it must be a modest car, like the black boxy Kia Soul he drove around South Korea. His daily commute is a small blue 2008 Ford Focus hatchback where he met with President Donald Trump, who was in the Beast escorted by a security motorcade.
17 Warren Buffett — Cadillac
Buffett, also known as the Oracle of Omaha, is currently worth over $93 billion. He is so rich that he made in a day as much as Hollywood's highest earnings in all of 2013 - $37 million. His first attempt at investing was at age 11, when he bought his first shares, and since then his company - Berkshire Hathaway - has grown to over sixty companies, including GM Motors, Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo, Duracell, Goldman. Sax and Geiko.
For a guy who gives away 99 percent of his fortune to charity, Buffett can drive absolutely any car he wants, but he settled on a Cadillac XTS, which he upgraded from a 2006 Cadillac DTS.
He doesn't buy cars often. In fact, a new Caddy was purchased after a GM executive convinced him that it was a better model than his old one, so he sent his daughter Susie to pick it up.
16 Timothy Cook — BMW 5 Series
Cook took over the reins of the world's most valuable company, Apple, after the death of founder Steve Jobs. The company, which is now worth more than $640 billion, recently increased his salary by 46 percent, so that he now takes home just over $12 million because Apple has lived through its best years under his leadership. But even with that hefty paycheck, Cook lives a simple lifestyle, grocery shopping at Whole Foods, wearing simple Nike sneakers, and driving either a BMW 5 Series or a Mercedes. His first sports car was the Porsche Boxster. He doesn't show off too much for someone who makes the best tech gadgets in the world, but he has great taste in cars for a business executive of his rank.
15 Mary Barra - Corvette Z06
Barra, chairman and first female CEO of General Motors, can be called a real iron lady. As one of the most powerful women in the world by Forbes and Time's 100 most powerful people five times in a row, Barra is not only the head of the world's largest automaker, but also a car lover in every sense of the word. This shouldn't come as a surprise, since her nine-to-five daily work days involve cars, and she's been with GM since she was 18 as a co-op student. Her father also worked as a die maker for 39 years at Pontiac, which is where she probably inherited her love of cars. With all the choices around her, Barra settled on a black 2015 Corvette Z '06 - with a 7-speed manual and the most powerful ever made. She calls it "The Beast". Otherwise, her favorite cars are Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird.
14 Benjamin Netanyahu - Audi A8
Netanyahu, the ninth prime minister of Israel, leads one of the world's smallest countries (in terms of size), but has more power than other leaders. He has been hailed for his work on the Israeli economy, as well as technological and medical advances, plus his leadership is unlike that of other Israeli leaders of past regimes.
Wherever he goes, his safety is paramount because it is important to protect him from Israel's enemies. That is why the state purchased a long-wheelbase Audi A8L for him for $1 million.
It comes with a 6 liter W12 engine with 444 horsepower, inside there is a refrigerator, a humidor and a DVD player. The car is secretly modified for safety reasons, but is said to include full ballistic protection with bulletproof tires, self-contained oxygen supply, and explosives designed to blast the doors if they are jammed by a shock wave.
13 Phil Knight - Audi R8 FSI Quattro
From a $50 bill borrowed from his father, Knight, co-founder and honorary chairman of Nike, turned his small idea into a multibillion-dollar business empire. Forbes ranks him as the 28th richest person in the world with a net worth of around $30 billion. With all this money, Knight doesn't seem to care about the latest and most expensive luxury supercars on the market. Instead, he opted for a 2011 Audi R8 FSI Quattro 120,000, which cost him around $10. The car is amazing, has a 5.2-cylinder 430-liter engine mated to a manual transmission and develops XNUMX Nm of torque so you get speed and smooth driving in one car. Perhaps we could all use the man's humility; otherwise, if we were left to our own devices, we would be ruined!
12 Number Carlos Slima – Bentley Continental
Slim is a Mexican billionaire, founder of America Movil and Grupo Carso. He is the richest person in Mexico with over 200 companies in the country as part of the Slimlandia conglomerate. He is also known as one of the richest self-made people in the world, with interests in financial companies, telecommunications, media, consumer products, construction, mining and industrial sectors of the economy. Like Buffett, this savvy investor buys shares in various companies, including the New York Times, in which he owns 17 percent of the shares.
With a net worth of $71.7 billion, Slim can afford a chauffeur but loves to drive himself.
His large car collection includes a black Mercedes and an ultra-luxurious Bentley Continental Flying Spur. His latest venture involves the production of the first Mexican-made electric vehicles.
11 Theresa May - BMW 7 Series
Most people know Theresa May as the Prime Minister of the UK, but the Chinese call her by many other names such as "Steel Lady" or "Aunt May". However, she is rarely talked about because of her love of hiking, cricket and cooking. She also loves beautiful clothes and original shoes. As the second most powerful woman in the world according to Forbes, Mei's safety is important to Britons, which is why she had to give up her BMW 7 Series when she took over as prime minister - instead of a BMW instead of a Jaguar XJ Sentinel. . Powered by a 5-litre V8 engine, this vehicle is built with an aluminum body and top-level safety features such as ballistic and explosion protection for explosives, reinforced polycarbonate windows, autonomous oxygen supply, and dispersants in case of biological or chemical weapons. attacks.
10 Ivanka Trump - Suburbia
If Ivanka Trump, America's first daughter, isn't going to some important meeting or fixing her makeup in the back left seat on her way to work, she's probably at home or on vacation with her husband and kids. Ivanka, who is also an adviser to President Donald Trump, has been seen on numerous occasions getting into or out of a silver or blacked-out Chevy Suburban SUV accompanied by Secret Service agents.
Suburban is a full-size SUV with three rows of seats, a massive cargo area and a large 6-liter V8 engine.
The car is very intimidating when you run into it, and is usually part of the convoy that takes Ivanka to and from work. And sometimes, when she's too tired to walk two blocks to get to her destination, she orders him to pick her up and save energy - oh wow.
9 Taylor Swift - Mercedes-Benz Viano
Judging by her songs, this girl really loves cars. Her Reputation album has a track called Getaway Car in which she throws her boyfriend into another guy's car and says, "Nothing good starts in a getaway car." There are more references to cars in her songs, so she seems to attach a lot of importance to them.
She bought a Lexus with her first paycheck, and when she first signed with her label, she splurged on a pink Chevy pickup truck.
Her taste in cars is not like the average girl next door, as she also had a Toyota Sequoia, but her daily car is a Mercedes-Benz Viano. She has also been spotted several times with her boyfriend Taylor Lautner traveling in her white Audi R8 sports car.
8 Lakshmi Mittal - Rolls-Royce EWB Phantom
At 67, Mittal, also known as the "Carnegie of Calcutta," has accomplished more feats than many other entrepreneurs around the world thanks to his ArcelorMittal company, the world's largest steelmaker. His family was also in the steel business and after a break with the family business, he founded Mittal Steel and then merged with the French firm Arcelor to form ArcelorMittal in 2006. Since then, he has become one of the world's largest most influential and richest people with a fortune of about 20.4 billion dollars. The lacto-vegetarian owns prime property in Kensington Palace Gardens, has been named Britain's richest man and has strong ties to high-profile figures such as Nicolas Sarkozy, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, among others. With all this wealth, Mittal drives the most luxurious cars, including a two-seat 0-seat Porsche Boxster, Bentley Arnage and Rolls-Royce EWB Phantom, perfect for a wealthy and powerful CEO.
7 JK Rowling - Rolls-Royce Phantom
Rowling is currently the highest paid writer in the world, according to the 2017 Forbes list, ahead of well-known authors such as Dan Brown, Stephen King, John Grisham and Daniel Steele, among others. With a huge net worth, Rowling, who claims to be living a mundane life, still loves spending luxury vacations like cruises to the Galapagos Islands, Mauritius, or a beach house in the Hamptons. From a simple series of Harry Potter storybooks, this female author increased her wealth to levels she could not have imagined at the time she started, especially after she was rejected by many publishers. Her life is now starkly different from her initial struggles, when she survived on meager weekly allowances and lived in a mouse-infested apartment as a single parent with her daughter, Jessica. Once married, Rowling lives in million-dollar mansions and drives a Rolls-Royce Phantom or Range Rover on the road.
6 Tsai In-wen
Her name may not be the easiest to pronounce or remember, but her title makes her one of the most influential people in the world. Tsai is the president of Taiwan, which means that her safety is a top priority for citizens. She used to drive an Audi A8 L, comfortable but not safe enough for a president. So, the National Security Bureau has applied for her $8 top-of-the-line Audi A828,000 L Security - a rugged armored vehicle - though you won't notice its level of security just by looking at it.
It is built with a bulletproof and shatterproof steel hull, aramid fabrics, 10cm thick bulletproof windows, special aluminum alloys.
In case of a bioattack, the car has a built-in life support system, an oxygen generator, a fire extinguisher, plus an intercom to communicate with people outside.
