Motor vehicle theft

[9] Scrap metal and spare part prices may also influence thieves to prefer older vehicles.

[13] In Indonesia, locally-produced MPVs such as Toyota Avanza, Daihatsu Xenia and Suzuki Ertiga are the most commonly stolen vehicles.

In the United States and Australia, a design flaw allowing USB cables to substitute for car keys led to sharp increases in the thefts of affected Kia and Hyundai vehicles in 2022.

Companies that utilize this data include Carfax[26] in the US, AutoCheck,[27] CarCheck,[28] and Check Car Details[29] in the UK, Gapless[30] in Germany, and Cartell in Ireland.

Other security devices such as microdot identification allow individual parts of a vehicle to also be identified and potentially returned.

"[32] Using data supplied by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime,[33] New Zealand had the highest auto-theft rate for any fairly large country in the world, at 954.0 per 100,000 residents in 2020.

[35] The FBI reported that the cities where most motor vehicles thefts took place in 2019 were Los Angeles, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Phoenix and Detroit.