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6,200 Km Test Drive!

Melpax From Australia, joined Apr 2005, 1419 posts, RR: 1
Posted (5 years 2 months 3 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 868 times:

A man has been arrested after taking a new Honda Accord on an unauthorised 'test drive' from suburban Melbourne to the Northern Territory - 6,200 kms all up! He managed to convince the sales staff that he was interested in purchasing the car before making a rapid exit.......

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23327778-1243,00.html

Will work for beer

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Pilotdude09 From Australia, joined May 2005, 1774 posts, RR: 4
Reply 1, posted (5 years 2 months 3 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 840 times:

What an idiot but had he paid for the petrol he might have gotten a few hundred even thousands of kms out of it.

Funniest part of the story is that he had his bags packed for the trip as well!!

Qantas, Still calling Australia Home.........

WILCO737 From Greenland, joined Jun 2004, 8478 posts, RR: 78
Reply 2, posted (5 years 2 months 3 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 822 times:

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Quoting Melpax (Thread starter):
new Honda Accord

He should've taken a proper car and not a Honda duck

but not bad. going on such a long "test drive" Will do that next week with the new Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren Big grin

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BMIFlyer From UK - England, joined Feb 2004, 8810 posts, RR: 62
Reply 3, posted (5 years 2 months 3 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 817 times:

Quoting WILCO737 (Reply 2):
Will do that next week with the new Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren

Ah yes, Pilots and their "Spending" duck

Lee

Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own

WILCO737 From Greenland, joined Jun 2004, 8478 posts, RR: 78
Reply 4, posted (5 years 2 months 3 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 813 times:

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Quoting BMIFlyer (Reply 3):
h yes, Pilots and their "Spending" duck Big grin

I'd love to be able to afford THAT car! But I guess I never will be! Its so friggin' expensive Sad

So I have to stick to my C350 for now duck

WILCO737 (MD11F)
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CXfirst From Norway, joined Jan 2007, 2703 posts, RR: 1
Reply 5, posted (5 years 2 months 3 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 801 times:

I need a trip to Broome soon, this gives me a good idea Big grin

-CXfirst

From Norway, live in Australia

LTBEWR From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 12337 posts, RR: 12
Reply 6, posted (5 years 2 months 3 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 793 times:

In my experience every time I wanted to test drive a car, the salesperson rode with me, usually on a specified route and only for a short time. They also made sure (and usually photocopied) my license and had my old car left there. I would assume they could press criminal charges as well as civilly sue him for $1000's for depreciation, damage to the vehicle and so on. I bet too they will require in the future you must post some asset like your current car or not allow any unsupervised driving.

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