Spanish Police Raid Fake Ferrari Factory That Turned Peugeots Into F430s
Spanish police have raided a bizarre ‘factory’ that was turning out fake Ferraris based on old models from Toyota, Ford and Peugeot.
The low-key industrial building was discovered after a dodgy MR2-based fakerrari was stopped in Benidorm, with the owner’s testimony helping the cops trace the supplier back to a building in Girona, in the north-east of Catalonia.
When they stormed the factory the police found 14 Peugeot 406s, Ford Cougars and more MR2s in various stages of conversion into vaguely lookalike F355s, F430s, a 360 and a 348. Several of the fibreglass-bodied replicas were for sale online, with asking prices around the £35,000 mark. Who’d be daft enough to pay that? Benidorm man, we’re looking at you…
The man behind it all was arrested for infringing Ferraris ‘industrial property rights’. Oh, and also for having a hilarious 950 marijuana plants plus all the equipment needed to grow more.
The conversions are evidently illegal in Spain, but a small number of British firms still offer conversion kits, y’know, for if you’d like to turn a decent car into an utterly horrible affront to style that should be killed with fire. Your choice.
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I may be mistaken, but isn’t this news like a couple of years old? I think this was back in 2013.. .. Or is it another bunch of idiots looking to make money on other idiots?
Yes, it is at least a couple years old.
Honestly, this is old news, but, i forgot about it.
Could be worse……. oh wait, even jalopnik is better than this. Actually, I think that may have been where I discovered this.
So can we please lock up people that put M badges on their 325i’s too?
Gotta love a 316i Compact with a M3 badge
A guy at my school put an M badge on his E92 328i. Only took him a couple weeks to get mercilessly roasted by the local cars and coffee fb page that I happened to be a part of. It made my week.
Faux-rarris should be illegal everywhere!
it’s from few years ago this video..
o, no video here, you can find it on youtube
Unfortunately in spain people are very stingy. So if they see a “Ferrari” for 35000€ they buy it without thinking what is behind the hood. In spain are non car guys(30%), car guys(10%) and non car guys that think that are car guys but real car car guys know that they haven’t any idea about cars(60%). The last tipe of people are who buys these replicas.
if you cant tell your Ferrari is a counterfeit after hearing Toyota 4 cylinder, you deserve the fake car yourself.
If you can’t tell the difference, you don’t even deserve the innocent butchered MR2 that’s underneath
What a waste of good MR2s.
Replicas are not illegal. Now selling fake cars are.
Probably not as illegal as 950 marijuana plants plus the equipment to grow more 😉
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