Firefighters also rescued four people trapped in a smoke-logged elevator on the 19th floor of one of the unit blocks, after the Toyota SUV, thought to have been stolen, was driven into the courtyard of the complex on the corner of Pitt and Gladstone Streets around 2.45am.
It crashed into the corner of a tower block, forcing the evacuation of least 250 occupants from three residential buildings.
No-one was seriously injured.
200 evacuated, four trapped in smoke-logged lift
MORE than 200 were evacuated from their homes after a stolen car burst into flames when it crashed into a residential unit complex in Merrylands early this morning.