| Statistics have shown that contrary to what seems | | | | neighborhood. |
| likely, the car thieves of today actually don't steal cars | | | | Most people believe that car thieves are out to steal |
| for the actual car type but for the attachments and | | | | fancy sports cars but according to statistics these |
| accessories that owners of the bigger vehicles put on | | | | types of vehicles are usually locked up in the garage |
| and in their trucks and large vehicles. It seems that the | | | | most of the time. On the two ends of the scale are |
| vehicle owners of large trucks are usually in some sort | | | | the 2007 Cadillac Escalade ESV which is 15 times |
| of construction business. These constructions workers | | | | more likely to be stolen a Mercedes E Class sedan. |
| like big trucks because they can be used to haul | | | | The Escalade is actually on the bottom of the most |
| around their equipment and they can keep their very | | | | stolen vehicles with the top car being the Honda |
| expensive tools in a supposedly safe lock box. Well, | | | | S2000 convertible being on the top. All of the vehicles |
| this lock box is what the thief is more interested in than | | | | in between are a truck, a hummer or an SUV. Small |
| the actual vehicle. The construction worker's tools are | | | | cars do not even make the list of most stolen cars. |
| sometimes very specialized especially if they are in the | | | | That a doesn't mean that car thieves don't steal small |
| wood working part of building million+ dollar homes. | | | | or compact cars just that none of them are in the top |
| Their tools are extremely expensive and also easy to | | | | ten favorites to steal. |
| sell by the thief. Also, the shiny flashy rims and over | | | | On the least stolen car list are, of course, are the |
| the top audio systems are easy to sell and therefore | | | | Toyota Prius and the Volkswagen New Beetle with |
| thieves are on the look-out for a chance to steal them. | | | | not one large vehicle or truck being on this list. Number |
| Since these large trucks and SUVs are so large and | | | | one on the least stolen car list is the Ford Freestyle |
| sometimes equipped with larger tires than normal the | | | | with the Mercedes E-Class on the other end. It's not |
| owners don't usually park them in a garage. They are | | | | that car thieves do not steal smaller cars just that |
| usually parked on the street or in a driveway where | | | | statistics show that the larger vehicles and trucks |
| they are visible to any thief checking out the | | | | thefts have been increasing over the past few years. |