17 Oct 2026, Sat

Test Drive Turns Into An Attempted Carjacking

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There are good reasons some dealerships insist a salesperson ride along on test drives. One is to keep you from hooning the car like you stole it. Another is to guard against you actually stealing it.

For a man in the New Orleans, Louisiana area, that second concern proved well-founded when he allegedly tried to carjack an Audi mid-test-drive. The brazen attempt quickly unraveled.