Dear mail robbers, the Mazda E2000 could have held as much as 70 million francs
04/16/2021
In keeping with the published book review "Cars and Crimes" , we have dug up two amusing anecdotes:
For years, the myth has persisted that Bernie Ecclestone provided and drove the getaway car in the great mail train robbery ("The Great Train Robbery") in Buckinghamshire on August 8, 1963. Back then, 16 robbers held up a mail train and stole 2.6 million pounds (today's equivalent value: more than 60 million euros). Only 15 robbers are known by name - one is missing.
Then the robbery at Zurich's Fraumünster Post Office on September 1, 1997 went around the world as the mail robbery of the century. In the courtyard of the Fraumünster Post Office, the robbers held four postal workers at bay, some of them with toy weapons, and seized five boxes of money that were ready to be transported to the nearby National Bank. However, the robbers had to leave two boxes behind for "space reasons". Mazda's idea was crazy, however, and they immediately placed an ad with their minivan with the words: "Dear mail robbers, there would have been room for 70 million francs in the Mazda E2000."
