An angry car owner hired three men to smash up his luxury Maserati with sledgehammers outside the company’s show room in a protest at ‘poor customer service.’

The owner, identified only by his surname Wang, saw his £276,000 model turned into wreck in Qingdao, China,

He said he had addressed the dealership over a number of quality and maintenance problems and was dissatisfied with their service.

In a bid to draw attention to his plight, Mr Wang ordered the unusual protest outside the Qingdao International Convention Centre  on the same day as the start of the International Auto Show.

‘I hope foreign luxury car producers acknowledge clearly that Chinese consumers are entitled to get the service that is commensurate with the brand,’ Mr Wang told the Qingdao Morning Post, according to Agence France-Presse.

The supercar was draped in a banner accusing the Italian manufacturer of poor decision-making.

According to Car News China Mr Wang, had been in a longstanding feud with the dealership spanning more than two years.

In 2011, a businessman from Qingdao named Han Nan hired men to annihilate his $750,000 Lamborghini.

He was reportedly fed up with a mechanic who couldn’t fix an engine problem, so he decided to have the car smashed in front of a crowd on World Consumer Rights Day.