Here’s a story that’s being making the news rounds in Thailand today, and all for good reason, because, while it’s not uncommon for exotic supercars to catch fire on the road individually, having four of them turned into useless scrap metal on a transport trailer is a rare occasion, to say the least.

Yet it happened on a road in the resort district of Pak Chong, Nakhon Ratchasima, in Thailand when a fire that is said to have started on a BMW, which spread on a Lamborghini Mucilageo and then onto a Ferrari F430 and a Bentley Continental. A motorist from the opposite lane purportedly alerted the driver of the truck about the fire.

According to a report from the National News Bureau of Thailand (NNT), the BMW is worth an estimated 10 million baht (US$330,000 / €250,000) in the country, while the Lamborghini Mucilageo costs around 40 million baht (US$1.33 million / €1 million), the Ferrari F430 about 30 million baht (US$995,000 / €760,000) and the Bentley roughly 20 million baht (US$663,000 / €510,000).

All in all, the four cars that were destroyed beyond repair from the fire are worth about 100 million baht (US$3.3 million / €2.5 million).

Thailand’s Bangkok Post reported that the police said no one has claimed the ownership of the vehicles yet, and that the driver was transferring the cars from a showroom in Bangkok’s Rama 9 area to a petrol station in Si Sa Ket province on the Thai-Cambodia border, where they would be picked up by an “unknown person”.

If that doesn’t sound shady enough, the newspaper said each of the cars on the trailer “was equipped with a natural gas storage tank which might have been the cause of the fire”.

“Police investigators are coordinating with concerned agencies such as the Excise Department, Customs Department and Si Sa Ket Provincial Land Transport Office to examine purchase orders, transfer permits,” said Pol Col Panu Buranasiri, deputy police commander.

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