re: F-150 and F-250 trucks are the target of a crime ring in SWLA

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It’s the goddamn Nicholas Cage trying to save it brother again. I’m hiding my GT500.

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Nic Cage still has nothing on the greatest car theft of all time. North Korea once ordered 1,000 Volvo 144 models from Sweden and never paid for them.

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North Korea is the culprit of the largest car theft in history when it ordered 1,000 Volvo vehicles from Sweden in the 1970’s and never paid.

At the time and as a response to its emerging economy, the hermit nation ordered the Volvo 114s, regarded at the time as one of the safest and strongest cars in the world. Such was their reputation that they were dubbed “tanks.”

The cars were shipped and delivered but North Korea just didn’t bother paying and ignored the invoice. To this day, the bill remains unpaid, prompting Soviet diplomats to call it the “largest car theft in human history”.

North Korea’s debt to Sweden has grown over the years to a massive $322 million. Sweden still sends twice-yearly reminders to Pyongyang, but North Korea has never upheld its end of the agreement.

And to this day, no car manufacturer has dared to provide any new cars to them because of this incident.

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