[s-cars] News Flash: S-car chosen for robbery get-away car

[Dave Forgie]

We'll have to wait for more details from our Scandanavian listers but
from what I saw on the late news Sunday night, an S-car avant was chosen
by thieves who staged an armed robbery of Edvard Munch's famous painting
"The Scream" in Oslo on Sunday.

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3392405

The black avant was debadged (it could just be a 100 or A6) but had 17"
Bolero's and a Kamei-type grill.  I assume it was stolen because of its
potential for speed as well as the convenience of the large loading room
in the back.

On sort of a  side note, when I lived in Norway for 3 months in 1986, I
learned that many luxury cars in Norway were imported as "trucks" to get
around punishing import taxes.  As long as these vehicles had a loading
space of something like 1.5 m and no back seat,  the qualified as
"trucks" and paid much less duty.  As a result, there were lots of
Mercedes wagons, big Citroen wagons, etc. in Oslo when I was there - all
with their back seats bolted down flat.  There was even one story about
a 911 Porsche "truck" (I never saw the car).  Perhaps this still goes on
and the S-car avant getaway car was really a Norske "truck".  ;>)

Shades of  Ronin.

Dave F.