LaFerrari Owner Claims He Called The Police After Getting Trapped Inside By Its Heavy Doors
This is one of those stories that gets weirder the more you read. It starts with 85-year-old Preston Henn, an entrepreneur and former racing driver. Already a LaFerrari owner, he asked FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne if he wouldn’t mind awfully selling him the Aperta version (pictured above) also, only to have his request denied.
Naturally, the next logical step was to sue Ferrari, “for reputational injury and the mortification caused by declaring him to be not qualified to purchase a LaFerrari Aperta,” according to Road and Track. Although the lawsuit has since been dropped due to the potentially astronomical costs involved.
Where it gets really interesting is his comments to R&T about his existing LaFerrari coupe. “I couldn’t get out of the car,” he said, adding: “I had to call the police to get me out of the car. What happened is I didn’t realise that door was as heavy as it was. Once I realised it, they could pull the door and get out and I had no problem. It is just not a comfortable car.” I suppose it probably isn’t, but you’d think comfort wouldn’t be so high on your priority list when buying a hybrid V12 hypercar.
Henn then proceeded to sing the praises of the new Honda NSX, which he deemed far superior to “not the La Ferrari, the last one I got, I forgot what it’s called, it was a Spider, whatever it is,” despite costing quite a bit less. He did not comment on its doors…
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
Puusy.
I’m going to sue Ferrari for selling this idiot a normal LaFer in the first place.
He should pay his own door guy. Following him everywhere.
Can I please have this horrible car? I have been working out, I can handle the doors
He can have my VW instead, it has very light doors
Sounds like a fair trade
Arent the doors carbon?! What else do you want you geezer, if you drive nearly 1,000hp around you should be able to lift a gallon of milk
Need help? Life Alert…
I mean, it’s widely know that Carbon fibre is the heaviest material on earth! So can you really blame him?
Do you even lift bro?
LOL
He cannot even remember the last Ferrari he bought. No wonder Ferrari doesn’t want to sell him an Aperta.
“this is not a comfortable car and i can’t get out of it because I’m too weak… I know, I’ll spend that million I have and buy an open-top version of the exact same vehicle”
that will make it more comfortable… xD