A family had an unwelcome caller in the early hours in the shape of a crashed car, which landed on their roof after taking off from a dirt ramp and vaulting a fence.
One man was left trapped inside the Holden Commodore while another was able to climb out, only to find himself caught in the smashed roof of the bungalow in Sydney, Australia.
But although the impact was savage enough to embed a piece of traffic light in a house tens of metres further down the street, the young owners and their baby emerged from their home unscathed.
Police are investigating whether the car was racing another vehicle, and say they suspect speed and alcohol were factors in the crash which left officers "speechless", according to Australian newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
After taking to the air, the car - a close relation of which is sold in the UK as the high-performance Vauxhall VXR8 - soared over the two-metre fence and ploughed through tree branches, turning over in mid-flight before being engulfed by the house.
It finished up just metres from the couple's three-month-old daughter.
Inspector Adrian Grech from Blacktown Police said he had been to the scene of some serious accidents in the past, but that the incident was "genuinely different and strange".
"To have an accident which starts 90 metres away and actually gets a vehicle airborne, there would have been substantial speed involved," he added.
The Top Gear lads were impressed with the rawness of another related Vauxhall - the Monaro when it appeared on the show in 2003.
And a couple of years later, Jeremy Clarkson blamed a newer version of the car for pulling "all the gooey stuff out of [my] spine" after a lot of time spent "going round many, many corners much too quickly".
