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Police yesterday found the vehicle used to kidnap a heavily pregnant woman in West Auckland.
Waitakere police said the dark green Isuzu Bighorn, registration BDZ904, was found yesterday morning in Eastdale Rd, Avondale, next to Eastdale Park.
The vehicle's owner, a 28-year-old woman, was assaulted and knocked unconscious by two people as she was trying to get into the 4WD outside the National Bank in New Lynn about 4.15pm on Friday.
Detective Sergeant Pete Litherland said the vehicle would be examined.
"We are keen to hear from anyone who may have seen the vehicle in the vicinity of Eastdale Rd between Friday night and Sunday."
The attack on the woman, who is seven months' pregnant, was "unprovoked and unnecessary violence against a particularly vulnerable woman".
Police believe the woman was driven around unconscious for more than three hours before being shoved from the vehicle on to a grass verge near West Auckland's Rosebank Rd.
The woman, who did not wish to be named, said she did not hear her assailants coming and woke up on the back seat of the car, where she lay quietly for as long as she could.
"I can't remember whether I mumbled something or whether I coughed, then they knew that I had come to," she said.
"Then I felt his hand reach over and then I heard the car slow down ... I could feel his hand sitting on top of my head and I knew that he was about to open the door. The door just flung open, and he pushed."
The woman said she tried to twist as she fell to protect her unborn baby and her waters broke when she hit the ground. She walked for help, getting assistance at a dairy after passing cars failed to stop.
She was admitted to hospital but has since been discharged. Her baby is reported to be fine.
