There isn't any indication in the article that he's spent lots of money on it although he has had it maintained at the dealer. One of the points of the article is that it hasn't needed much work. Of course it was highway miles. The article also supports another of my theories - that the real benefit of synthetic oil is to make owner feel good. It's never seen a drop of synthetic but the oil has been changed 55 times, or about every 8k miles.