Jaguar’s current tag line, “It’s good to be bad,” often appears in advertisements depicting British villainy, but surely the company never thought the catchphrase would bite back. According to the tabloid Birmingham Mail, thieves sank their claws into two trailers full of brand-new engines at Jaguar Land Rover’s Solihull, England, assembly plant and scampered off into the night.
In two separate trips to Solihull on the same evening, the cat burglars used an allegedly stolen semi-tractor to hitch up to a trailer and drive off with it—even making it past guarded security gates. All told, they made off with quite the cat’s meow: $3.75 million worth of new Jaguar Land Rover engines. The automaker plans to offer a reward for information that leads to the engines’ recovery, although there is no word as to whether the incentive is in the form of cash or nip. The West Midlands Police are on the case, too. So far, only the trailers—gutted of their cargo—have been found, in nearby Coventry.
It’s good to be bad, it seems, until that badness results in good engines being stolen from your backyard. Oh, well. Crime might might not pay, but it certainly offers unlimited opportunity for feline Jaguar jokes. Oh, and if you see $3.75 million worth of engines, say something. It’s good to do that.
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