Nothing to do with the cars.... But this more or less happened to me with a (yes a dog lol) I'm in Canada and he was in Jersey....i flew there, took a taxi ( had him wait, told him if you see this gets ugly please call the cops and tell them he robbed of X amount of dollars...
Long story short, he had to call another taxi that was bigger than his to come out there to pick me up with my dog and create he "allowed me to borrow" and I was to ship it back.
It wasn't the cpl of grand but the dann principle of him thinking I was a dumb hick who lived in an igloo.