2024-04-27 12:51:23
Brutal comedian Rowan Atkinson is parting with a super sports car – and is likely to do a very good deal with it.
“Mister Bean” is cleaning things up: Crumpled face Rowan Atkinson (69) is selling one of his luxury sports cars. The British actor is offering a rare Lexus LFA for sale, Auto Motor und Sport magazine reports on its website.
Only 15 LFA came to Germany
Between 2010 and 2012, the Toyota subsidiary brand built just 500 examples of the super sports car. Only 15 of them went to Germany – and that was already the highest number in all of Europe.
A powerful V10 engine with a displacement of 4.8 liters and 560 hp powers the LFA. It reaches a top speed of 325 km/h and accelerates to 100 km/h in 3.7 seconds.
The price has tripled
This particular 2012 Lexus LFA is one of only 198 so-called right-hand drive vehicles (steering wheel on the right side) built. He spent most of his time in Japan, a country with left-hand traffic, and the car only came to England and into Atkinson’s garage in 2022. Despite its age, the speedometer only shows 3,753 miles, which corresponds to about 6,000 kilometers.
The Lexus cost 375,000 euros new. Now it should bring the comedian the equivalent of a million euros. This means that the value of the LFA has roughly tripled in just over ten years.
“Mr. Bean” brought him world fame
England was already laughing about his character “Black Adder” in the early 80s. Because of her wordplay, she didn’t make her big international breakthrough – which was even better with the rather taciturn “Mr. Bean” (since 1989). In between, Atkinson also appeared in a supporting role in the 1982 Bond film “Never Say Never Again.” He later became a cinema agent himself as “Johnny English”. Atkinson is married for the second time and has three children.
Atkinson’s (estimated fortune: the equivalent of more than 100 million euros) love of fast cars is well known in collector circles. At times his collection is said to have been worth more than ten million euros.
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