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Porsche 930 Turbo

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Bill Gates

The Porsche 930 was bought by Bill Gates in his early days of Microsoft. Being a top-of-the-range model for its entire production duration, this was the fastest production car available in Germany at the time of its introduction. This car had a 260 PS engine which provided an output of 191 kW and 256 hp. This car would reach the speed of 0 to 60 mph in just 5.2 seconds and had a top speed of 153 mph.

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1988 Porsche 959 Coupe

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Bill Gates

350,000

Once titled as the world's fastest street–legal production car, the 1988 Porsche 959 Coupe, was first introduced as a Group B rally car and later as a legal production car designed for satisfying FIA regulations requiring that a minimum number of 200 street legal units be built. It was recognized as the most technologically advanced road-going sports car ever built and the progenitor of all future super cars. In total only 337 units were built making it quite a collector's edition. There is an interesting story associated with Bill gates's 959. "Gates 959", as it is popularly called was stored for 13 years by the Customs Service at the Port of Seattle, until regulations were changed to allow "Autos of Interest" to be imported with severe limitations on their use. Rumor goes that both Gates and Allen used their might to help pass the "Show and Display" law, due to which they are able to drive 959 despite its unknown crash ratings. Rumor also has it that Bill Gates and Paul Allen especially wrote a computer program that could simulate the 959's crashworthiness, which further helped in the bill's passage.

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1999 Porsche 911 convertible

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Bill Gates

80,000

The Porsche 911 Carrera is a love at the first sight. But it is much more than just a car with its outstanding visual appeal and shiny edges. Under its hood is a 3.4 liter 24-valve 6-cylinder engine which develops 296 horsepower and a torque of 258 lb. The rear-mounted, water-cooled engine renders awesome acceleration taking the car from 0 to 60 mph in just around 5 seconds. Being a self-professed speed lover, Bill certainly has taken fancy to this car. Taking engineering to higher levels, Porche designed this convertible using copious amount of stainless steel, which has increased its torsional stiffness by 45 percent and bending stiffness by 50 percent relative to its coupe version. The manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) begins at $74,460 ($109,000 Canadian) for the Cabriolet.

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Microsoft Spot Watch

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Bill Gates

One of the richest men in the world, Bill Gates, never used to wear a watch till some years ago. Now, he wears a SPOT watch that not only allows him to keep the track of time but also delivers him news via FM transmission.

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Bentley Continental Flying Spur

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Carlos Slim Helu

300,000

Bentley Continental Flying Spur, an ultra luxury sedan that exhibits impressive elegance, rides the world's richest man Carlos Slim Helu. This Flying Spur combines the classic British design with meticulous fit and finish, and is the perfect ride in terms of pure luxury comfort and graceful presence. Powered by a twin turbocharged engine, it takes you from zero to 60 in just 4.9 seconds.

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Navy Mercedes 4x4

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Carlos Slim Helu

100,000

Carlos Slim is an exceptional multi billionaire; he owns a fleet of cars and still loves to drive by himself. He drives a heavy duty navy military style Mercedes 4x4, custom painted in black. He still drives on his own, despite of all the heavy traffic on Mexico City roads, though his bodyguards follow him closely as Mexican streets are notorious for crime.

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Lomas de Chapultepec home

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Carlos Slim Helu

Carlos Slim Helu owns a modest house in the "Lomas de Chapultepec". In spite of being crowned as the richest person in the world thrice in a row, the Mexican business tycoon prefers to stay in the same 6 bedroom house in which he has now spent almost 40 years. The house is just 3 miles from his office and he prefers to drive his Mercedes from his place to the office on his own. He moved in the house after his marriage and it is located just 3 miles from where he was born, his childhood home.

 

Lomas de Chapultepec: Built in 1930's, the area houses some of the country's richest and the most influential personalities. Lomas is Spanish for hills and has since added a glamour to the word, with upscale streets with large homes having Lomas in their names.

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Duke Semans Mansion

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Carlos Slim Helu

44 Million

The buyer of the Duke Semans mansion was kept under wraps until, when investigations revealed the world's richest man, Carlos Helu Slim as the buyer. The mansion is a 1901 Beaux arts house, earlier owned by fertilizer magnate Tamir Sapir, and now by Carlos Slim Helu, after he paid $44 million to its owner.

 

The Location: The Duke Semans Mansion is at 1009, the corner of the Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York.

 

Accommodation: With the view of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Duke Semans Mansion is one of Fifth Avenue's last great private residences. The mansion boasts 12 bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, a doctor's office in the basement, and comprises over 19,000 square feet of space on 8 levels. The marble flooring, a gothic inspired marquee over its main entrance and a vintage wooden fireplace along with some artistic beaux arts work on the walls makes this mansion, the most important example of Beaux Arts residential architecture in the city. This grand mansion gets flooded with the brilliant light coming through three huge windows on the west, and through multiple windows on other sides of the buildings.

 

The Neighborhood: The Fifth Avenue, the ultra high end Manhattan area has residents like Donald Trump, Harrison Ford, Ralph Lauren and Jennifer Lopez, to name a few.

                                                        FACTS ABOUT BILL GATES

• NAME: William Henry Gates III
• OCCUPATION: Entrepreneur
• BIRTH DATE: October 28, 1955 (Age: 56)
• EDUCATION: Lakeside School, Harvard College
• PLACE OF BIRTH: Seattle, Washington

Entrepreneur Bill Gates, born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, began to show an interest in computer programming at the age of 13. Through technological innovation, keen business strategy, and aggressive competitive tactics, he and his partner Paul Allen built the world's largest software business, Microsoft. In the process, Bill Gates became one of the richest men in the world

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                                                        FACTS ABOUT CARLOS SLIM HELU
Carlos Slim Helú, one of the wealthiest people in the world, was born on January 28, 1940, in Mexico City to a family of Lebanese Christian immigrants. He became a billionaire after the economic crash of 1982 when he purchased investments at low prices that would later be extremely valuable. In 2000, he founded the Foundation for the Historic Centre of Mexico City to restore and save significant buildings.

Carlos Slim Helú (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɾlos esˈlim eˈlu]; born January 28, 1940) is a Mexican business magnate and philanthropist who is currently ranked as the richest person in the world in 2012.^[1] Slim has been ranked the richest person in the world since 2010. His extensive holdings in a considerable number of Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso, SA de CV, have amassed interests in the fields of communications, technology, retailing, and finance. Presently he is the chairman and chief executive of telecommunications companies Telmex and América Móvil.

América Móvil, which in 2010 was Latin America's largest mobile-phone carrier, accounted for around US$49 billion of Slim's wealth by the end of 2010.^[3] His corporate holdings as of March 2012 have been estimated at US