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Porsche Panamera worth $100,000 stolen from Gold Coast home
By Amy Mitchell-Whittington
Gold Coast police are asking the public to be on the lookout for a luxury vehicle, valued at $100,000, that was stolen during a burglary last weekend.
The black 2010 sports style Porsche Panamera was stolen along with jewellery during a burglary of a Helensvale home overnight on Saturday.
The stolen vehicle is similar to that pictured and has same mag wheels.Credit: Queensland Police Service
Police said there were only a few of these vehicles in Queensland.
Detective senior constable Steve Tyler said it appeared the burglary had been opportunistic rather than targeted.
"This burglary appears to be a standard forced entry through a window," he said.
"(We think the offender) has stumbled across the keys and the car and taken the one they liked."
Senior constable Steve Tyler asked people to keep an eye out for the vehicle, with Queensland registration RMV77, as he said it was likely the robbers would likely use the vehicle to commit other crimes.
"When cars are stolen to order, you never see them again, they get taken on a lorry and whisked off or broken into parts," he said,
"However, we are of the opinion the offender will hold onto it and commit other crimes in it.
"Not many people look at that sort of car as being a criminal's car but in this case it will be."
Senior constable Tyler said It was becoming more commonplace for thieves to target luxury vehicles from homes rather than public spaces.
"Vehicles are now electronically key locked, the days are gone where railway stations could be targeted by car thieves, and shopping centre car parks," he said.
"They go to the home now to steal the car.
"We don't have a spate of high-performance cars being targeted, but we do have a trend that cars are being stolen from homes, primarily from burglaries."