USA's Cheapest AMG Mercedes Stolen, Then Posted On Facebook
I’ve been dreaming of cheap ML55s ever since seeing YouTuber and motoring journalist Tyler Hoover’s one year report about his own, which was the cheapest AMG Mercedes in the USA when he bought it. However, the poor Merc has been through the wars this week.
It was stolen from a detailer who’d left it running with the heaters on full blast to dry out the shampooed carpets, after which Hoover put out the word to try and track it down. Incredibly, a woman who’d seen a news report had spotted the car posted up on Facebook with the caption “dad’s new car”. She claimed to know the thief, and took Hoover on a tour of the miscreant’s local haunts, but to no avail.
The same woman spotted the car the next day and called the police, only for the ML to evade the authorities and disappear once more. A few sightings later, and the car was found, having been recklessly driven into the undergrowth and abandoned.
Hoover claims the damage isn’t too bad considering what the car has been through, but stated on his Autotrader column that he won’t know the full extent until the car is extracted which “will require a chainsaw to carve out”. Yikes.
Here’s hoping it’s relatively unscathed after its ordeal.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Just saw the vid a couple of minutes ago, doesn’t look as bad as I thought it would be
same lol, i thought the front would be mangled and the car would be totalled.
Maybe this would come in useful next time!
reminds me of another label i saw on youtube lol
reminds me of another label i saw on youtube lol (better pic:)
“dad’s new car”
Imagine his reaction if he finds out it’s stolen
Who knows? Maybe the thief stole it because he is a Mercedes fanatic!!
When you try to go for top comment so you just spew unfunny stuff. Please stop.
Saw that video yesterday
In Germany companies like detailers or repair-garages have responsibility for the cars while they have them, including full coverage insurance for anything happening on their property.
Same in the UK. Public laibility insurance. Whether it’s a jacket at a dry cleaners or a car at a garage, they’re kegal responsible. Story and situation created for clicks.
It’s a bit scratched up and maybe has a few dents, but:
Could’ve been crashed.
Could’ve been driven into a tree.
Could’ve been torched.
Could’ve just been gone for good.
So I guess, after all, it’s not that bad.
Yea, I mean, it is bad that it was stolen, but it was just driven through bush and left there.
I don’t know why the thief left it stuck there, left his own stuff there.
He might just be stupid, like the title said.
You could have gotten a real car with the insurance settlement.
Who’s the kind of guy to have an AMG without protecting it with a disklock
DisklokUK
Disklok is bae
Could be worse.
what happened?
Just use disklok