Thieves steal 20 Honda Civic Type Rs from Australian port

The Honda Civic Type R is the kind of car created in a laboratory to embarrass the kind of gatekeeper who still insists on calling it “wrong wheel drive.” No, you can’t get it with all-wheel drive like you can the Toyota GR Corollabut it’s also so much fun to drive that you probably won’t care. Unfortunately for enthusiasts without the cash, the $46,000 price tag is a big deal. A few thieves in Australia recently solved that problem by simply stealing twenty Civic Type Rs from the docks. Road & Track reports.

The recent Honda Civic Type RThe stolen cars were actually part of a larger group of about 45 cars that the thieves took. In total, they made off with approximately $1.3 million worth of vehicles, including “three Skoda Kamiqs, five Skoda Kodiaqs, three Skoda Superbs, three Volkswagen Tiguans, two GWM Tank 300s, two Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans and one Volkswagen Golf R .” Authorities believe four people – two men and two women – broke in sometime between Sunday evening and Monday morning and simply drove them away. The theft was captured on security cameras and showed that most of the vehicles still had their protective films on when they were stolen.

So far, Australian police have arrested one woman whose list of charges includes “damage to an emergency vehicle by reckless driving, theft of a motor vehicle, possession of butanediol and false number plates, and driving without a license.” They have also since recovered 17 of the stolen cars and are still searching for the other three suspects and the remaining missing cars.

It would be nice to think that they will eventually be able to track down the stolen Type Rs, but if Hollywood has taught us anything over the years, we are probably dealing with an elite group of international criminals who have come out of retirement to make one last do a chore. Will they rob a mine? A sofa? A billionaire? That remains to be seen, but once they’re done, they’ll likely be on the road for good, and good luck guessing which fake identity they’ll use when they retreat to the Italian coast. Unless the woman arrested by the police starts talking.