₦airaland Forum Welcome, Guest: Join Nairaland / Login / Trending / Recent / New Stats: 1078760 members, 1268754 topics. Date: Saturday, 22 June 2013 at 07:27 PM List Of Top Billionaires Who Drive The Cheapest Cars - Car Talk - Nairaland Nairaland Forum / Nairaland / General / Car Talk / List Of Top Billionaires Who Drive The Cheapest Cars (288 Views) (1) (2) (3) (4) (0) (Reply) (Go Down) List Of Top Billionaires Who Drive The Cheapest Cars by Ijele-igbo(m): 3:56pm On Apr 25 Billionaires are often thought of as lavish spenders, splurge on collections such as big houses, private resorts, clothes, shoes, and the most common of them all, cars. Believe it or not, there are still quite a lot of humble billionaires out there. This is a few of them! 1. Phil Knight : Philip Hanson Knight is a philanthropist and a business magnate. He is the chairman and co-founder of Nike, Inc and has served as the CEO of the company. In 2011, Knight has an estimated net worth of $14.4 billion and claimed the 47th position in the list of world’s richest people. Despite his billion net worth, he owns an Audi R8 costing only $120,000. Re: List Of Top Billionaires Who Drive The Cheapest Cars by Ijele-igbo(m): 3:59pm On Apr 25 2. Michael Bloomberg: Michael Rubens Bloomberg is a financial data mogul and the 108th mayor of New York. He began his career and built a securities brokerage company in 1981. He served as one of the chairman of the board at Johns Hopkins University from 1996 to 2002. He has a net worth of $27 billion and has been known as the 7th-richest person in the United States. Mayor Bloomberg drives and Audi R8 worth $120,000. Re: List Of Top Billionaires Who Drive The Cheapest Cars by Ijele-igbo(m): 4:01pm On Apr 25 3. Michael Dell : Michael Dell is an author, philanthropist, and a business magnate. He is known to be the CEO and founder of Dell Inc., which is one of the leading personal computers sellers in the world. Dell has 243 million shares of stocks in the company that is worth $3.5 billion, which represents 12% of the company. He has other assets worth approximately $10 billion and had it invested in other companies. He then made a bid to make the company private for $24.4 billion. An with all his assets, he chose to drive an edgy 2004 Porsche Boxter with a price tag of only $80,000 Re: List Of Top Billionaires Who Drive The Cheapest Cars by Ijele-igbo(m): 4:04pm On Apr 25 4. Warren Buffet: Although he is often accuse of being a miser, Warren Buffet still holds the third spot in the list of world’s richest people. He is the CEO, chairman, and the primary shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway. Buffet is coined as the “Wizard of Omaha” because of his frugality and his adherence to the value investing philosophy. Buffet donates some of Berkshire’s profits to several charity organizations. He drives a Cadillac DTS but don’t be intimidated with the car brand; it costs only $45,000. Re: List Of Top Billionaires Who Drive The Cheapest Cars by Ijele-igbo(m): 4:06pm On Apr 25 5. Francois-Henri Pinault: Francois-Henri Pinault is a renowned French businessman. He is also the CEO of PPR. He started as the company’s manager in 1988 and was appointed CEO in 1993 after being the CompagnieFrançaise de l’AfriqueOccidentale or CFAO for three years. In 1997, he became the CEO of Fnac. His love for computers led him to develop the company’s Internet activities in the 1990s.This super rich clothier drives a Lexus SUV worth only $40,000 Re: List Of Top Billionaires Who Drive The Cheapest Cars by Ijele-igbo(m): 4:08pm On Apr 25 6. Laurene Powell Jobs: Laurene Powell Jobs is the wife of the late Steve Jobs. She is an American business executive and is the co- founder and President of the Board of College Track. She also became a co-founder and the CEO of Apple Inc. Not everybody knows that she controls the $3.9 billion worth of stake in the Steven P. Jobs Trust in the Walt Disney Company. She drives a silver Audi A5 with the price of approximately $40,000. Re: List Of Top Billionaires Who Drive The Cheapest Cars by Ijele-igbo(m): 4:12pm On Apr 25 7. Alice Walton: Alice Walton is the one and only heiress of the Walmart fortune. She also owns the second spot in the list of the world’s richest women. Walton did have her own fair share of extravagant living as she owned a lot of Porches over the past years. But because of an incident where she accidentally ran over a woman, she decided to stay away from those luxurious cars. She now uses a 2006 Ford F-150 King Ranch, which costs only $40,000 Re: List Of Top Billionaires Who Drive The Cheapest Cars by Ijele-igbo(m): 4:13pm On Apr 25 8. Mark Zuckerberg: Who wouldn’t know Facebook’s CEO and founder, right? Mark Zuckerberg is one of the youngest billionaires in the planet. But he definitely does not want to show the world all his wealth, as seen in the car that he chooses to drive. In fact, he is the youngest billionaire in the list who owns a very inexpensive car – an Acura TSX that costs only $30,000. Re: List Of Top Billionaires Who Drive The Cheapest Cars by Ijele-igbo(m): 4:16pm On Apr 25 9. Steve Ballmer: Steve Ballmer is considered one of the wealthiest men in the world. He is an American businessman and is currently Microsoft’s CEO. As of 2012, his net worth was estimated to be approximately $15.7 billion, landing him on the 19th spot on the Forbes 400. As humble as he is, he decided to go for a fairly modest automobile, driving a Ford’s Hybrid Fusion that retails for about $19,000. Re: List Of Top Billionaires Who Drive The Cheapest Cars by Ijele-igbo(m): 4:19pm On Apr 25 10. Ingvar Kamprad: Ingvar Kamprad is the founder of Ikea and has a net worth of at least $28 billion. Other billionaires may have chosen cheap cars and can be deemed as humble, well- grounded people. But if being thrifty is concerned, nothing beats Kampard as he chose to drive a humble Volvo 240, which only costs $1500. Aside from that, he prefers to take the bus from time to time. Re: List Of Top Billionaires Who Drive The Cheapest Cars by mondi_cheeks(f): 7:50pm On Apr 26 Wise pple cool Re: List Of Top Billionaires Who Drive The Cheapest Cars by tpacalipse(m): 8:46pm On Apr 26 A naija poor man will buy hummer and stay in boysquaters in Ikoyi. Re: List Of Top Billionaires Who Drive The Cheapest Cars by rhames: 5:15pm mo be boys quarter self.Na one room (0) (Reply) I Really Need A Bullet! / Vehicles From Unauthorised Dealers Won’t Be Registered – Lagos / I Got The Idea. But Who Will Buy It? 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