Why Stealing Cars Went Out of Fashion
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Why Stealing Cars Went Out of Fashion
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#2Not sure it made much of a difference to insurance premiums, unless you didn't have an immobilizer in which case you premium would go up.
I expect the insurance industry benefited most from this.
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#3Interesting that the Honda Accord and Honda Civic are (or rather, were) the two most stolen cars. Is that because Hondas are more reliable (so there's more old Hondas on the road) or because they're easier to steal?
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#4Interesting that the Honda Accord and Honda Civic are (or rather, were) the two most stolen cars. Is that because Hondas are more reliable (so there's more old Hondas on the road) or because they're easier to steal?
They are stolen for the marketability of their parts.
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#5Interesting that the Honda Accord and Honda Civic are (or rather, were) the two most stolen cars. Is that because Hondas are more reliable (so there's more old Hondas on the road) or because they're easier to steal?
It's because they're the most stereotypical vehicle to mod in most of Europe and probably the US. They're popular with so called "ricers".
I'm not sure why though. Maybe because they're easy to steal? Maybe they're cheap to buy/insure and are still high performance enough to be fun while also having a cheap enough after market for modifications.
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#6Is this native advertising?
> One of the factors that keeps car theft going in the United States is the reliability of old Hondas. Eventually, mid-1990s sedans should become too old to be worth stealing at all, but that hasn’t happened yet. “They keep running,” said Mr. Morris, and therefore they keep being stolen.
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#7Not sure it made much of a difference to insurance premiums, unless you didn't have an immobilizer in which case you premium would go up. I expect the insurance industry benefited most from this.
Driving accidents that involve the destruction of multiple cars, damage to humans, and possible law suits far outweigh the damage caused by theft.
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#8Not sure it made much of a difference to insurance premiums, unless you didn't have an immobilizer in which case you premium would go up. I expect the insurance industry benefited most from this.
I don't know why you're only considering insurance premiums. Surely, people benefit from not having their car stolen. It's a lot of work to replace a car, even if insurance pays.
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#9Interesting that the Honda Accord and Honda Civic are (or rather, were) the two most stolen cars. Is that because Hondas are more reliable (so there's more old Hondas on the road) or because they're easier to steal?
They are stolen for the marketability of their parts.
That still begs the question. Why are their parts better?
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#10"Stealing cars is harder than it used to be, less lucrative and more likely to land you in jail. As such, people have found other things to do."
Interesting. I wonder if there are any studies on what the other things are. What do perpetrators do when the crime they specialize in no longer pays?