• A group of thieves tried stealing four luxury vehicles from a Manhattan garage.
  • A parking attendant dropped the security gate and stopped most of the escape.
  • The only car to get out, a McLaren, crashed into a pole one block away.

Stealing a group of exotic cars isn’t something that a group randomly decides to do on a whim. One would expect a heist of such epic proportions to have tons of planning that went into it. For a group accused of attempting just such a theft in New York, a parking gate and a quick-thinking parking attendant were enough to stymie the master plan.

Early Sunday morning, four or five suspects slipped into a garage on West 43rd Street near 11th Avenue and targeted some seriously expensive machinery, including a McLaren Artura, a Mercedes-AMG G63, a white Land Rover Range Rover Sport, and, for reasons best known to them, a Volvo XC60. Only one of those vehicles actually made it out of the garage, and even that didn’t last long.

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According to the NYPD statement provided to Road&Track, officers responded around 5:48 a.m. to reports of a grand larceny auto in progress. The suspects allegedly entered the garage, got into several vehicles, and attempted to drive them out. Then the parking attendant intervened.

In a move that sounds straight out of a movie, the attendant slammed the garage’s front security gate shut while the thieves were trying to escape. The gate came down directly onto the hood of the Range Rover Sport, trapping it in place and effectively ending the heist for everyone except the driver of the McLaren.

That getaway didn’t go much better. The thief behind the wheel of the blue McLaren made it only about a block before losing control and crashing the supercar into a pole at West 42nd Street and 11th Avenue. Photos from the scene show the car with heavy front-end damage and deployed airbags. Considering the Artura packs 671 hp (500 kW), it appears the thief discovered the hard way that stealing a mid-engined hybrid supercar and actually driving one are two very different things.

The suspects eventually abandoned the damaged vehicles and fled in a gray BMW. As of Tuesday, no arrests had been made, and the NYPD investigation remains ongoing.