What you’ve been told is that the GM EV1, the first realistic electric car from a modern automaker, was killed off by shortsighted corporate greed over fifteen years ago. So good it threatened entrenched interests, every single one of the 1,117 EV1s was declared a failed experiment, pulled off the road over the protests of happy lessees, and crushed. But we’ve got a big dusty red pill for you—there’s still one out there in the world, and it’s been left for dead in an Atlanta parking garage.
The only one confirmed to remain in private hands is owned by director Francis Ford Coppola, who told Jay Leno in 2014 that he hid the car away when GM rounded them up in 2003 because he loved it so much. There are rumors of another that allegedly sold to an anonymous collector for nearly $500,000 in 2008.
So this one is a real mystery as to who owned it and why it was left there. It is not an uncommon occurrence at all though to see a car abandoned like this for many years in parking garages. I knew of a blue Audi A4 in a garage in Bellville, Cape Town that I commented on for many years until suddenly in 2019 it was gone. I also know of a scooter chained up in a parking garage in Cape Town CBD that has been there for at least 6 or 8 years now (even after ownership of the parking garage transferred). You’d think as these garages are private property and each bay costs revenue, that abandoned vehicles would be cleared out after a month or two…
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#^There’s an Ultra-Rare GM EV1 Abandoned in an Atlanta Parking Garage
One of the rarest cars in the world—and we know where it’s hiding.