Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Where the bloody hell is my Aston Martin?

Thieves have stolen Lara Bingle's $300,000 Aston Martin, bought for her last Christmas by her fiance, cricketer Michael Clarke.

While Clarke was in Melbourne yesterday celebrating Australia's win in the Boxing Day test match, it was the missing luxury car that Bingle - who starred in the controversial "Where the bloody hell are you" tourism advert - was yearning for.

"Aston GONE.... KARMA," she wrote on Twitter.

"What a way to start a new year... I want it back."

Bingle noticed the car was missing from the couple's Bondi Beach apartment sometime yesterday, and is believed to have reported it missing to police about 1pm.

Police believe the theft occurred between Tuesday 11.30pm and and 5.30am yesterday.

Bingle was in Melbourne earlier this week to launch David Jones' Boxing Day sales as well as support Clarke at the MCG - but had since returned to Sydney.

The Aston Martin was reportedly an early Christmas present from Clarke to Bingle last year.

Clarke spoke about the car, and Bingle's ability to drive it, in an interview with GQ magazine this year.

"The Aston fits in the garage but I wouldn't really know; I never get to drive it — Lara doesn't let me," he said.

"I drive my car and I say, 'Oh bub, can I take your car for the day?' - I have to plead to drive it."

"Lara isn't a terrible driver. She's a crazy driver. She's 100 miles an hour.

"If I get in that car beside her, I always have to take over.

"I just say: 'Babe, come on! Let me drive.', not because I'm better, just because I'm scared to go with her."

Bingle acknowledged her driving troubles in a separate interview.

"I am not the best driver. It is kind of difficult to drive. It is a heavy car. It has got a big front and lots of power," she told News Ltd.

"I am used to driving a mini, so it is one extreme to the other, I guess."

Police would reveal any leads in the case. They were also investigating whether other car spaces and cars in the apartment block had been broken into.

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