$130k service cost on 328 true?

I doubt anyone pressures Jay on his own channel. Jay likes to feature random people he meets and finds interesting when they have fun cars. Not too hard to see how Donny might end up there, I suppose; he does have an outgoing, fun personality.

 

Jay talked about it in his interview with @twinpalms. I think @robertcope's description is about right.

 

There's a lot Leno seems to genuinely appreciate about Ferrari, and he's had other Ferrari owners on the show with him discussing and driving their cars, and he sure looked like he was enjoying them.

He just doesn't want to own a Ferrari, for his own reasons. Somewhere there's an interview with him, I think in a Garage episode, where he explains it - I don't recall offhand what he said about it.

 

He didn't like the dealer experience.

 

I’m going to paraphrase as well, but it has to do with Ferrari’s allocation/hierarchy scheme for owners new to the brand, forcing them to work their way up the model ladder until they’ve proven that they “deserve” one of the more desirable models.
Would be interesting to know if his POV comes from personal experience.
- Dave

 

That's about what I remembered, but didn't recall what he specifically said about it. I wonder if he was well-known enough at the time that they tried to shake him down, after a fashion, making him decide that while he may appreciate the cars for what they are, he'd never be a customer. Pure speculation on my part, though.