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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The cars are worse quality but must still do the same thing
At least they solved Ferraris problem with self-inflammation.
Officer to superintendant-
Só wé raíded this iñdustrial estáte…
Stubaru (Subie Maniac)(Saabaru Squad) on the topic of replicas…
Can the US please do the same with converting Pontiac Solstices and Fieros into Lamborghinis and Ferraris?
I would ask “What were they smoking to come up with that idea” now, but in that case the question has already been answered.
Qian Li watch out your Ferrari mr2 may be raided by police
Why did they raid a fakerarri plant? I’d love to buy myself a fakerarri with a ford engine. At least the engine wouldn’t catch on fire all the time.
35k? You could almost buy a real 360 for that.
So when will people start making MR2 replicas out of Ferraris??