Ferrari Mailing List: Self proclaimed Ferrari ambassador?

[Erik Nielsen (judge4re]

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David Lee, a Ferrari collector who has appeared on Jay Leno’s Garage, says that access used to be “down to who you knew at the factory,” but a new tracking system tells Ferrari “exactly what cars you have, so they know whether you’re passionate or playing the game. I have bought every car they released in the last few years, including ones that were not so popular. That data determines that I am a top client.”

Yet even favored clients can have their privileges taken away. In 2017, Lee, who owns 30 Ferraris, was denied the chance to buy a LaFerrari Aperta, which had a run of only 210 models. His mistake, he believes, was discussing Ferrari’s secretive selection process with the Los Angeles Times. “Ferrari had told me I was in the running, but they had not yet decided,” he explains, so he told the newspaper he had not been offered one. The way Lee tells it, the resulting headline, HE OWNS A DOZEN FERRARIS AND HAS LOADS OF CASH. WHY CAN’T HE BUY THE ELUSIVE $2.2-MILLION LAFERRARI APERTA?, did not go down well at Ferrari HQ.

“They read it over in Italy and thought I was using the media to pressure them to give me a car,” Lee says. “So for a few months we were on shaky ground. My relationship with Ferrari is very important, so it was really upsetting to me. They did not offer me a car.” Lee—whose Instagram account describes him as “Ferrari Ambassador,” is awash in the marque’s signature red and has 1.1 million followers—says the relationship has since been repaired, and he is expecting delivery on five Ferraris this year.