Where’s the Video, Dietrich?

Enzo case takes another bizarre twist, and Porsche enlists industry allies to make what could be bitter lemonade

by John Draneas

This month we revisit two old friends—one the Pacific Coast Highway Enzo crash, and the second the Porsche Lemon Law special.

Last summer’s big car story was the Ferrari Enzo crash in Malibu, California. Stefan Eriksson crashed his Enzo into a power pole, splitting the car in half and spreading wreckage across 1,200 feet of Pacific Coast Highway. He blamed it all on a “friend” he knew only as “Dietrich,” who was driving and ran off after the crash. That story didn’t work too well for Eriksson, who ended up copping a plea and getting sentenced to three years in jail.

Eriksson’s suspected accomplice was Trevor Karney, whose residence was a Marina del Rey yacht that fortuitously set sail for Ireland just before the police came by to pick him up, supposedly with the in-Enzo video of the wild drive that ended so abruptly at a reported 199...