Electric Vehicles the least stolen car while SUVs and pick up trucks the most

[WhatInThe]

Electric vehicles(EVs) the least stolen car while SUVs and pick up trucks the most according to recent study. A Camaro is the most stolen car.

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[hollydolly]

same here..SUV's.. Jeeps..Land Rovers.. the most stolen ...also because parts are at an all time low for availabilty... many ordinary unepxnsive cars are having piece ripped of them in some area.... right down to parts from the engimes..

I think I would pass out from shock if I went out and my car had been Canibalized like this

 

[Oldeagle66]

It's pretty bad when car thieves don't want your products

 

[WhatInThe]

Was reading alot more stolen cars are shipped out and sold whole rather than for parts. Over seas stolen car markets seem to be bigger than in the US.

It used to be the Japanese cars like Honda had notoriously high theft rates because spare parts weren't manufactured en mass the way they are in the US because they're designed to drive longer periods of time with maintaince unlike many US cars.

 

[Been There]

I remember another Marine friend and I were driving on I-95 from Virginia going to Boston and as I drove through New York City we passed a vehicle, which was probably stolen, and was sitting on cement blocks. The car was mostly stripped on the outside and some of the components and seats were also missing. I couldn’t see it with driving past, but I imagine the catalytic converter was also gone. The same happens in chop shops.

When we got to Boston, I was telling a friend of ours about this car we saw on the Interstate and he said the same thing happens in the Boston area, just not as often as in New York.

 

[Ted01]

I remember another Marine friend and I were driving on I-95 from Virginia going to Boston and as I drove through New York City we passed a vehicle, which was probably stolen, and was sitting on cement blocks. The car was mostly stripped on the outside and some of the components and seats were also missing. I couldn’t see it with driving past, but I imagine the catalytic converter was also gone. The same happens in chop shops.

When we got to Boston, I was telling a friend of ours about this car we saw on the Interstate and he said the same thing happens in the Boston area, just not as often as in New York.

I remember reading some articles that described this, back in the 80s, and how fast thieves
could strip a car in the DC area... they were doing in well under 30 minutes.
I thought that to be amazing!