New research suggests that the nationality of your car may
affect the likelihood of it being stolen or broken into.
Online car insurance provider, elephant.co.uk, has researched a database
of 300,000 cars in the UK to see what percentage manufactured
by different countries are stolen or broken into by car thieves.
It found that overall owners of German cars such as Mercedes,
Volkswagens and BMWs were the most likely to be the victim
of car crime. Owners of Czech Skodas were the least likely
to have their cars stolen.
Head elephant at elephant.co.uk, Tanzie Oliver, said, "Most
people associate cars from different countries with different
qualities - for example that German cars tend to be well engineered,
Italian cars stylish and British cars classic. We wanted to
see if there were any trends when it came down to the nationality
of cars being targeted by thieves."
elephant.co.uk's research found there were also differences
between the nationality of cars most likely to be broken into
and ones stolen outright. Italian cars such as Alfa Romeos
and Fiats were the most likely to be broken into, while American
cars such as Chevrolets and Chryslers were the most likely
to be driven away by car thieves. However, overall German cars
were the main target of car thieves.
Tanzie Oliver, said, "There are many reasons why certain
cars are more popular with car thieves than others. It could
be they are more desirable for professional thieves, or maybe
their security systems are not so good and of course in many
cases it is just that they are in the wrong place at the wrong
time."
Here is elephant.co.uk's complete table of theft rates for
different nationalities of cars: |
