The $230,000 high-performance Audi R8 that was baseborn from its agent at gunpoint and sparked a accelerated following beyond Sydney has been begin in Auburn.
A man advertised his white Audi R8 2014 archetypal for auction on carsales.com and agreed to accommodated up with a man who he believed was a -to-be buyer.
After award the car in Wentworth Street on Thursday afternoon badge are now “reasonably confident” they apperceive who the man is, about it appears he is still at large.
The brace met at a BP account base in Balgowlah at about 6pm on Wednesday night and larboard for a analysis drive.
Police say during the drive to Seaforth the man pulled out a gun and pistol aerated the owner, banishment him out of the car.
The buyer abiding a cut over his larboard eye and was taken to Manly Hospital.
He contacted badge who spotted the man allegedly active the agent through Mosman at aerial speeds.
Police were afresh led on a pursuit, through the Sydney Harbour adit to Wooloomooloo.
The disciplinarian collided with at atomic one car, believed to be a badge car, afore axis around, active aback through the tunnel, and assimilate the M2.
“Police concluded the following in Beecroft due to assurance affidavit and his aftermost accepted analysis was in Moorebank,” a badge agent told 7 News Online.
The armed bandit is “not activity to get abroad with it”, Superintendent David Darcy warned on Thursday.
The man is declared as actuality in his 20s and is of average eastern appearance.