There certainly is a lot of technology in London to cover things like the congestion charging, control of lorries weighing over 18 tonnes, automatic number plate recognition in fixed places and police vehicles, public cctv many private cctv on buildings and homes also possibility of trackers on the car itself. Truck movements have been for years controlled in the capital. Beyond intelligence of likley suspects capable of handling something at this end of market and other ways of tracking such things from mobile and other communications tech.
However on other hand covering lot of vehicle movements going on. London residents aged 16+ make 4.6m car driver trips and 1.4m car passenger trips on an average day. More than that average by road on weekend as people switch to cars not public transport of working week.
Car theft is almost certainly not as high priority over national security and other considerations. Will be interesting as a London resident to see how this one turns out. Prioritising theft of a distinctive high-value (presumably) insured classic road vehicle over all the many other things being policed with finite law enforcement and civil resources of metropolitan London -- one of the world's largest and busiest capital cities.
Heard rumour this RS theft was from an underground carpark in Pimlico. That type of location in fairly central location adds intrigue to logistics of the theft. Truck access to that kind of space? Some central London car parks contain many very expensive cars consistent with the high concentration of wealth here. Some owners, probably being richer than Croesus, have many exotic vehicles stored near their central London homes. Garaging in that area on private house even on multi-million £ properties a rarity. Whether theft trackers were on a car of that value and what human plus technology security there might (or might not) have been at this carpark in what is reasonably affluent central area of the capital is an interesting question too.
Disposing of the stolen car? With global forums like this analysing 911s etc down to bolt heads marking level (guilty) to me it would seem be tricky to use as intended ... if not impossible ...but there is much more general awareness these-days of the sale and movement of such a model and its piece parts than decades ago -- when relatively speaking few knew of such a 911 model. I guess whoever did it they had a plan before ever taking it.
Unusually for a car theft the story made the news presumably due to the price point
http://www.itv.com/news/london/2018-...lico-car-park/
Sounds like the car was stored in a public or shared underground car park so not immediately obvious when it was taken in last few months.
One auction listing from its past
https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/...-27-rs-touring
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