Last week, we brought you the taxi driver from India who won the drawing for a Lamborghini Gallardo 550 sports car worth about $200,000. And the Abu Dhabi resident made so little money he seemed unlikely to be able to afford the insurance on the car.

I am pleased to report — via my colleagues in The National newsroom — what seems to be a sensible outcome. Perhaps even a happy one.

Soupi Abdulla has sold the high-end sports car for 550,000 UAE dirhams — which is about $150,000. In cash. To a Syrian expat who also lives here.

And Soupi plans to use the money as the stake for opening a food-delivery business, here in the UAE, with his two brothers.

Our reporter, Anna Zacharias, reported that Soupi “is a second-generation expatriate to the UAE and earns Dh1,000 a month as a driver for a food company.”

That 1,000 dirhams a month? It’s $272.

Anna added that Soupi lives on 300 dirhams a month “and sends the rest to his wife, two children, disabled brother and widowed mother in Kerala,” in India.

That happens here every day. Guys who work long hours for low wages — yet manage to send home most of their pay.

“His father died more than 10 years ago after working as a family cook for 20 years in Ras Al Khaimah,” Anna wrote.

“Mr Soupi’s brothers Ahmed and Assainar, with whom he is now going into business, have lived in the UAE for 30 and 22 years.”

Some of us might have pocketed the $150,000, and blown a chunk of it right off on a luxury item. Soupi Abdulla, however, plans to turn his windfall into an investment.

I prefer to believe that Soupi Abdulla — who never once drove the hot car he won — will turn his break into a thriving business, and that his relatives back in India will benefit from it.