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by rs4v8 » Mon Nov 26, 2007 2:04 pm
Diggler wrote:Norrs2 wrote: Can I ask a silly question? What are these bas****s doing with the cars? I'm assuming they can't sell them (over here at least), who's going to buy "parts" for a nearly new car and it's a bit drastic to go to this for a joy ride???!!!!!
Likewise, I think this is a sensible question to raise. It's a terrible thing to happen, let alone be beaten up for the car but what's the point - it it a case of the scrotes selling the car on to a go between and it ends up in Nigeria. Are they stolen to order ??
I remember a couple of years ago watching a telly programme where a cop (from manchester I think it was) was flying over Lagos in a chopper with the tracker device and it was going nuts. Supposedly rangies and discos are very popular in saudi etc. Beckhams X5 showed up in slovenia (owned by a government minister I believe) after visits to spain and italy.
Used to work in nigeria and it was amazing how many cars were there with european tourist style stickers on the back, particularly 'NL' cloggy ones. Very easy to nick, put in a container in rotterdam in less than an hour and away you go.
Without going as far as that, I'm sure there are a million criminal uses for a fast capacious 4x4 car. Robbery, burglary, shifting drugs etc etc. Scoobys and evos used to be (prob still are) targeted for the very same reason. The RS is a wee bit bigger so more blag can be carried.
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