poor audi owner....

id10t · 11-01-2017, 03:21 PM

Police: $400K in customer cars stolen from Duluth Audi dealership | News | gwinnettdailypost.com

pwd72s · 11-01-2017, 03:24 PM

Wow. That's brazen. Sounds like a transporter had to be used. That or a large crew to drive them away. Anyway, pros.

speeder · speeder's Garage

And the state of the crime. You can read that entire article w/o knowing where in the fk this happened. I thought it was Duluth, MN. until I saw a banner ad for something in Georgia.

Also, $400k worth of new Audis @ retail could be 3 or fewer cars. Just sayin'.

MBAtarga · 06:21 AM

I live not too far away from that dealership. They had a 997 from a trade in when I was car shopping last year and I took it for a test drive but decided not to pursue it.

Speeder- These weren't new cars. If you read the article, it clearly states they were customer cars in to be serviced.

rattlsnak · rattlsnak's Garage

Dang.. Close to home... Maybe they were filming a movie.. lol..

asphaltgambler · 11-02-2017, 07:50 AM

Well that was a poor choice - I could see if they were new cars, but if all of them where there to be serviced, the thieves will now need to steal $400k to fix 'em.

Mark Henry · 11-02-2017, 09:27 AM

If pros they're already in containers and headed for eastern Europe or Africa.

911boost · 911boost's Garage

You mean they didn't find them 2 miles away broken down?

MRM · 11-02-2017, 10:08 AM

I'm thinking it must be an inside job. They would have to be pretty professional to be able to handle that many cars all at once and to even get them off the property. Clearly they used a transporter because they weren't found broken down two miles up the road

. But the risk of pulling off a job like that is so great they no professional would want to try something that big without knowing they would be able to get away. That suggests someone on the inside who knew exactly what the vulnerabilities were and how quickly they could exploit it and get out. Maybe a disgruntled recently terminated former employee.

911boost · 911boost's Garage

Witnesses said they heard "Low Rider" playing in the background and the guy running the theft ring drove a car he called Elanor.

widebody911 · widebody911's Garage

You know there's a couple of those owners who got that phone call and in the back of their minds were thinking "Hallelujah!"

speeder · speeder's Garage

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Originally Posted by widebody911

You know there's a couple of those owners who got that phone call and in the back of their minds were thinking "Hallelujah!"

I envision a *Ransom of Red Chief* type situation where the thieves wind up paying the owners to take them back.