He went out to try a Ferrari with the promise of buying it and escaped: it's a 288 GTO of 2.2 million euros.

He arrived by taxi at the dealership, asked for a test drive with a Ferrari valued at 2.2 million euros for claiming he had an interest in buying it, he took the wheel and, in the middle of the test, he flew. This unusual event occurred in Düsseldorf, Germany, and its main character is a man who remains a fugitive.

According to the BBC, the Düsseldorf police confirmed that the man had presented himself at the dealership as a collector of vintage cars interested in acquiring the copy, nothing less than a 1985 Ferrari 288 GTO.

He went to try it initially as a companion of one of the vendors of the place. At the halfway point, the change of control took place, but when the seller came down to walk and ride on the pbadenger side, the offender went to the driver's seat from the inside. He accelerated before the other person climbed and escaped.

The car was found hours later in a garage in Grevenbroich, near the city center, but the man still did not show up. The concession manager told a German media that I had exchanged calls and emails with them for several weeks. The police, meanwhile, published his photo.

The 288 GTOs in question He traveled 43 thousand kilometers. The Irish driver Eddie Irvine, a former Formula 1 driver and a member of the Maranello team between 1996 and 1999, made many of them.