--- title: Russian Boys Tunnel Out of Preschool To Buy Sports Car description: The pair had spent days digging a hole under the playground fence with toy spades from the sandbox. canonical: https://time.com/4026084/russia-boys-escape-preschool-kindergarten-sports-car/ author: Helen Regan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-09T07:03:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:08.375Z og:title: Russian Boys Tunnel Out of Preschool To Buy Sports Car og:description: They spent days digging under the fence using toy spades from the sandbox og:url: https://time.com/4026084/russia-boys-escape-preschool-kindergarten-sports-car/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Russian Boys Tunnel Out of Preschool To Buy Sports Car twitter:description: They spent days digging under the fence using toy spades from the sandbox twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Two 5-Year-Old Russian Boys Tunneled Their Way Out of Preschool to Buy a Sports Car > Sponsored content. 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Don't let this Jag's understated British heritage fool you. The car goes from zero to 60 in 4 seconds, and can hit 186 miles per hour._ by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Sep 9, 2015 7:03 AM UTC by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Sep 9, 2015 7:03 AM UTC A pair of five-year-old boys in Russia managed to [escape](http://news.yahoo.com/russian-5-olds-dig-tunnel-nursery-buy-jaguar-144541007.html) their kindergarten by digging a hole under a fence with toy spades and went on a daring mission to buy a sports car. The intrepid youngsters had apparently been digging their escape route for several days, writes Agence France-Presse.They then made their move when teachers and students were on a walk in the kindergarten grounds. After breaking free of their nursery school in the city of Magnitogorsk, in the Urals region, the pair walked just over a mile to a luxury car showroom. When a woman saw the unaccompanied boys and asked what they were doing, they replied that they wanted to buy a Jaguar but didn’t have any money, local paper _Komsomolskaya Pravda_ reported. The children were then taken to a police station. The teacher in charge at the time has been fired from the kindergarten and the acting head was given a warning. \[[AFP](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/08/russian-5-year-olds-tunneled-out-nursery-jaguar-sports-car)\] ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] When we look at television commercials for the Jaguar F- Type we see eloquently dressed British actors with understated power. But that's sort of a misnomer. First of all Jaguar is not even owned by a British company any more. And second of all. There's anything but understated under this hood. [ NOISE ] [ MUSIC ] We're at the Monticello Motor Club in New York. We're driving an eight speed automatic with paddle shifters. There's plenty of torque in this thing too. It's got superchargers, as opposed to turbochargers. But the principle's the same. It's forcing air into the combustion chamber and giving you power when you need it. And there's plenty of power here. So, the Jaguar's a really broad- shouldered car. It's got a wide stance, powerful braking, which is really good in turns like this one. As you can hear, the supercharger is kicking in to give you the absolute acceleration that you need. While it's dressed in a very lovely red arsenal color for instance. It really behaves more like west pan. The price for this amount of power? About $ 100, 000. In addition to power, it's a comfortable ride but it has a few gadgets that are worth pointing out. For instance the pop- up spoiler in the back and also in the interior of the car there's a pop- up air conditioner. So what do you get for your $ 100, 000? Well, you get a 14- way adjustable seat for one thing. And like a lot of sports cars today. You can tune this car to the way you drive. For here, for instance, we have a dynamic mode switch. Which allows you to let the engine and the handling and the suspension be a little bit firmer for race mode. We've also got an eco setting here. Amazing on a sports car, but. When you're stuck in traffic, you're stuck in traffic. You're at a light, it shuts the motor off. And then hits it, as soon as you hit the pedal. Here's a button that hits the tuned exhaust, so if you wanna sound like a real race car, you hit this button, and music comes out of those thrust pipes. And Montana Motors bought the company, a few years ago, from Ford. There were questions about whether they could keep up the tradition of the Jaguar motor car. 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