Spyros’ limo sold for €16,000

FORMER President Spyros Kyprianou’s bulletproof presidential limo was auctioned off yesterday for €16,000.

The Mercedes was bought by the government in 1985 and was also used during former president George Vassiliou’s presidency. Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan used the vehicle in 2002 when he visited Cyprus in May 2002.

The car’s new owner, Andreas Orphanides, said the vehicle would now be in safe hands and that it would be placed in a museum for classic cars.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.