http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/27/pf/a...olen/index.htm

 

Sounds pretty accurate, my mom's 88 Camry was stolen a while back.

 

Wonder if the insurance prem is more on them.

 

yes its outrageous. We have a Jeep, when the gub'ment took it off the most stolen list, our premium went down $200.

 

Most people are surprised...but the main reason people steal cars is for parts..and those cars have a wide range of parts interchangeability over many model years.

 

Just another reason to buy the factory low jack option, both of my fords have the factory low jack & I can insure both vehicels for
less than 199.00$ a month & both have full coverage! Besides
who in the heck would risk a GTA for a JAP car? I sure as heck would not.
turbo ted

 

I think the reason the Camry is stolen the most is because it's so incredibily easy to steal. There's something you do to the key, file it down or something. When my parents got their's stolen they didn't take anything off of it, they just drove it till it was out of gas and parked it about a mile away from where it was stolen.

 

I did not know the Low Jack was offered by Ford.
What was the cost.

 

lo-jack is worthless, they claim cars are recovered in a few days, think about how long it takes to get parts off a car...

 

Mattsbox99; I beg to differ two years ago a local chop shop was
raided where they found various makes & models 52 cars in total
the front was a supposed auto auction, long story short the car that lead them to the ring was a 98 lincoln town car 30 minutes
after it was reported stolen to police, & it was said by the officers
that none of the other vehicels had the low jack feature, it may all boil down to the point of how motivated the cops are in doing ther job. Tim Lamkin the cost was about 350.00$ if I remember
correctly & also part of one of the packages. On the border city of EL PASO, TEXAS the feds find the low jack cars first & quickest
& WOW do they have a problem with auto theft. A friend of ours
& her husband own a repossesion company & I asked him why do you not just turn the low jack option on the cars to find them & he said it is against the law that only the legal owners are allowed to do so, I asked him if it worked & he said yes highly
efficitive he also quoted that in he knew of other repo companies that have resorted to these extreem tatics, & can recover in less than 1 hour. So from my personal experiences it is a winner.
turbo ted

 

my friend had his dads truck stoled from a barn right outside of town.. along with $30,000 worth of tools and mower equipment
it was a 1995 GMC 1500 4x4

 

Virtually any vehicle is easy to steal (although it's getting harder with some of those new model's technology), not just camry's. The doors on my truck can be unlocked in literally 20-30 seconds with some practice. The movies were fairly accurate, a car can be stolen in 60 seconds. The camry isn't stolen more than anything because it's easy, it's stolen because a lot of its parts work for many other years or other models. They steal the car and strip it for parts. The more buyers available for their parts the easier it is to sell them. A steering wheel lock won't stop someone, they can just snap it off with a pipe. A car alarm won't stop them, they can just de-activate it. A pedal lock won't stop them, they can just rip them off. If a car had all 3..then...they'd look for something else.