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This week's Important Lesson in Car Stupidity comes from Hannover in Germany. It's a good one. Get ready.
A 23-year-old man turns up at an Audi dealership in Lower Saxony, intending to buy a new A3 Convertible. He is carrying with him €23,000 in cash. In an open envelope.
Our hero - described as ‘an inexperienced convertible driver' - asks if he can have a test drive in said cabriolet. The salesman agrees. Our hero drops the roof on the A3 and puts his €23,000 in cash on the back seat. Alarm bells ringing yet?
He takes the A3 out onto the motorway. The A2 motorway, to be precise, between Garbsen and Hannover-Herrenhausen. He eases up to motorway speeds and - yep, you've guessed what's going to happen here, haven't you? - the €23,000 in cash swirls merrily into the sky before raining down on the motorway. Oops.
At least there's a happy ending of sorts. After closing the motorway for a full half-hour, the police manage to recover almost €20,000 of the notes. It's not clear, however, whether our red-faced hero decided to buy the A3 cabrio.
Anyone got any similarly embarrassing cabrio stories to share with us? Anything as bad as this?
It’s raining cash…
German man test drives cabrio, puts €23,000 in notes on the back seat. It’s going to end badly, isn’t it?
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Hristo commented on this article
at 12:47 pm on 15 May 2009
I've seen a simular thing at the motorway to Burgas/i'm from Bulgaria/ the car infront of us was a Reno 19 :) convirtable there was a opened handbag in the back seat and some teners flew away
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Viper_des commented on this article
at 03:46 pm on 15 May 2009
Expensive test drive...
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JES0381 commented on this article
at 08:30 pm on 15 May 2009
To be fair i'd rather throw away 23000Euros than buy an A3 cabrio
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BONDY96 commented on this article
at 08:41 pm on 15 May 2009
i agree why not have a good-looking car that is a proper convertible (two seats)
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Horsepowerrrr commented on this article
at 02:35 am on 16 May 2009
If road tripper people drove through there at that time my God they'd of been happy and had a laugh.
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