Thieves Use $470K Ferrari to Ram Their Way out of Dealership, Quickly Crash and Burn the Supercar to a Crisp
Two gloved and masked car thieves recently used a $470,000 Ferrari 488 Pista as a ram to drive through the plate glass window of a French dealership. Making the story even worse for those who love supercars, they only made it a few miles before they crashed, and the Ferrari burned to the ground.
The brazen Ferrari theft occurred around 2:15 a.m. at ILM Auto on Anatole-de-Monzie Avenue in Cahors. According to La Depeche, the thieves entered through the roof terrace in the garage. For 45 minutes, they smashed and searched the office looking for the keys. When the alarm went off, they stopped for about ten minutes, then, seeing that no one responded, they continued the theft.
“It’s clearly the Ferrari they were targeting,” said Nathan Azais, head of ILM Auto. They found before the keys of other cars, beautiful too, but they were not interested in them.”
Italpassion also reported that once the car thieves realized they couldn’t open a sliding partition to remove the Ferrari 488 Pista, they went to Plan B. They started using the valuable supercar as a battering ram. The thieves ended up shattering a large glass window and drove the car out of the dealership.
As the thieves proved, not everyone can drive a Ferrari
Sadly, as Mr. Anais stated after the crime, “A car like that, a Ferrari 488 Pista, it’s complicated, you have to know how to drive it.” The thieves did not know how to drive it.
Just a few miles from the dealership, the thieves crashed the Ferrari on a slippery, windy, rain-soaked road. They hit a guardrail, and the crash either set the supercar on fire, or the thieves did.
When police arrived at the scene, they found no trace of the thieves. Even worse, the fire had reduced the Ferrari to a charred shell of its former self.
Now, authorities, lacking any physical evidence in the car, are trying to use surveillance footage to piece together what exactly happened and who the thieves are. The dealership says this was the first time in 15 years that anyone has ever burglarized it.
