You have to admit the Santa Cruz car thief who stole his neighbour’s Ford Fiesta, swapped the license plate and then parked it in full view of the neighbour’s house had some set of huevos. The thief in a feeble nod at the victim’s ability to recognise his own car did at least make some minor alterations like installing a tinted rear view mirror but not enough to foil P.C. Plod and Co. who identified the missing car via the chassis number.

As reported in Typically Spanish.

He may be geographically challenged but once he found out where Tenerife was, Seyth Miersma, who took the new Lamborghini Gallardo for a test drive on the island found the place to be “…a wonderland for supercars.”

Those who salivate at the thought of a speedy hunk of metal will love the online presentation of the test drive’s results. The title of the article in The Winding Road magazine – Better Than Pefect? says it all really and the accompanying photographs are stunning.

If you own a VW in Tenerife there was really only one place to be last Sunday and that was on a family picnic outing with the club that describes itself as VW Bus Fanatics gathered into a gang, mad about double cabine T2 pickups. We´re ready to catch a rusty iron and make it a a rider´s dream.

SO if VW pickups are your thing, drive on by the Doka Club of North West Tenerife

Interesting to read about a sticky-fingered young man in Marbella who was making use of an electronic device to break into cars and pilfer valuables from inside while doing no damage at all to the outside of the vehicle. My dippy neighbour has lost her car key in Tenerife twice in the last month or so and it has cost her a whopping €150 each time to get it replaced.

The first time she had to get the Grua to deliver the car to the right garage and pay for that before organising the new key. In the UK there are mobile auto-key firms you can call out at any time day or night which gain access to your car and supply a new transponder key at a fraction of the price of the dealers.

I don’t think Tenerife really needs any new bars right now but an auto-key service. Hmmm… sounds like a winner.