On the second floor of the deserted Durban International Airport parking lot is a lonely black 2004 Toyota RunX which has been parked there for about four years - and which has now run up parking fees of more than double its worth.
It is one of five cars still parked at the old airport. One has been there for three years.
Airports Company SA (Acsa) spokesman Colin Naidoo said they had not been able to get hold of the owner to get him to pick up the car and that he might have emigrated.
The owner owes well more than R200 000 in parking fees because the car has been sitting there for about half a decade. The car's licence disc expired in November 2005 and the car is covered in dust. Dirt particles are lodged under the tyres, which have surprisingly not gone flat.
The owner still owes a finance company money for the car but, says Acsa, the bank would need to pay the parking fine first to repossess it.
All the vehicles have been checked by the police and are not stolen.
Naidoo said if no one picked up the vehicle they would have to sell it to defray costs.
The other vehicles are an Isuzu double cab, which has been parked in the open for three years, a Gauteng registered Proton Gen2, a BMW 318i and a Fiat Sienna, which has been parked since last month.
A tow-truck came to pick up the Proton earlier this month but security staff refused to let the vehicle leave without the owner paying the parking fee.
The Isuzu was registered in Kokstad and has been traced to a Department of Education employee.
Naidoo said the company wanted the owners to pick up their vehicles.