CUSTOMS have made their largest seizure of smuggled left-hand drive vehicles, which for the first time included a Jaguar.
The 25 cars are worth $10 million but could have fetched $30 million if they had reached their intended destination of Huangpu in Guangdong.
'It involved a total of 12 makes including Japanese and German-made vehicles. But the Jaguar is the first seen,' senior Superintendent Ronald Au Yee-leung, of the department's Prosecution, Intelligence and Investigation Bureau, said.
Last year, Customs officers seized only three smuggled left-hand drive vehicles in two separate cases.
But there were 68 such vehicles seized in six cases in the first 10 months this year.
'It suggests that the market for left-hand drive vehicles is still open in China,' Mr Au said.