BMW paid for with thousands of notes

Staff at a Chinese car dealership spent six hours counting bank notes after a customer paid for a new BMW with banknotes worth about 14 cent each.

The bank notes amounting to 100kg were not enough to cover the cost of the car and the rest was paid with a credit card.

Qiong Li, 40, visited the dealership in Zhengzhou, the capital city of central China’s Henan Province, wanting to a buy the BMW 730Li which, in China, costs around €150,000. Li, who works as a wholesaler of foodstuffs, said: ‘I could have taken it to the bank but they would have had to count it there anyway.