Jay Leno has driven three of the most hard-to-find performance cars on the road today: the current Porsche 911 GT3 RS, Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X and Ford Mustang GTD. He owns the Corvette ZR1X and the Mustang GTD, and he discussed both in a second episode of MotorTrend’s The InEVitable recorded at his Burbank garage.
The episode puts Leno back in the space where he records his car videos and keeps the rest of his collection, a place known as his Big Dog garage in Burbank, California. It also marks another turn in a story that has become unusually durable for a celebrity car collector: three years after his first appearance on the video podcast, he is still one of its main draws, and the show says his earlier episode remains the most watched in its 140-episode history.
That reach matters because Leno is using it for more than nostalgia. He has backed Leno’s Law, also called California State Bill 1392, the second bipartisan attempt by two California senators to exempt certain classic cars from smog checks. In the same broad conversation, the episode moves from his newest American performance cars to his interest in Czinger and then to newer electric vehicle startups such as Telo and Slate.
What makes the appearance notable is how wide Leno’s garage has become. He has 180 motorcycles in his collection, has recently driven Tesla’s electric semi-truck and now sits at the intersection of old-car preservation and new-car speed, with the public profile to push both sides at once. The contrast is part of the draw: the man known for collecting the past keeps showing up to talk about what comes next.
That is why the question around this episode is no longer whether Jay Leno can command attention. He already can. The more consequential answer is that he is using that attention to press a classic-car exemption bill in California while also making room for the newest wave of performance machines and electric startups, and that combination gives his garage unusual political weight.
