A supposed buyer should try the rare Ferrari 288 GTO actually only - but he obviously used a moment alone in the 400-hp sports car and sat down. That is what the police said.
When the seller and the man had changed places in a test drive on a main road in Neuss, the unknown - hardly at the wheel - gas. He drove off with the more than two-million-euro Ferrari from 1985 and left the seller on the road.
The Ferrari of a classic car trade had therefore the official mark D-06073 at the time of the crime. First owner should have been ex-Formula 1 driver Eddie Irvine.
According to a police spokesman, the man was photographed before he disappeared. The investigators now examined a public search.