Team India skipper Virat Kohli and cars go hand in hand. His Audi R8 V10 was seen lying in a police impound is old news, but social media users have dug out this rather interesting piece of information and have now made the pictures of this model go viral once again.

Meanwhile, Kohli, who is the brand ambassador of Audi owns some of the costliest cars in the country. The talismanic run-scorer has a stunning collection of Audi RS5, Audi RS6, A8 L, R8 V10 LMX, and Q7 and other luxury vehicles like Bentley Continental GT and Range Rover Vogue.

Why is Virat Kohli’s Audi R8 V10 lying in police impound?

As per earlier reports in Cartoq.com, Virat Kohli did own this vehicle roughly eight years back but he sold it in2016. He sold the car to a guy named Sagar Thakkar, who in 2018 was arrested for masterminding a call centre scam and as per a 2018 report in ndtv.com.

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It was seized from Ahmedabad, with police stating that Kohli was an innocent seller and had no idea who he was dealing with. And ever since, the car is lying in a police impound somewhere in Thane, for over two years now. In 2019, an automobile fanatic, who a social media handle Automobili Ardent, photographed the Audi R8 in the impound and wrote on social media platforms,

“That’s @virat.kohli’s ex Audi R8 V10 in a miserable state somewhere in Thane! After being impounded following fraud by the dude who bought this car, the car has been sitting at police grounds for a year now. The car has been flooded and even floated from one end of to ground to another. Painful to see such good cars in such a dire state. Don’t know if this is even worth rescuing now.”

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