FutureBoy
Well-known member
- First Name
- Reginald
- Joined
- Oct 1, 2020
- Messages
- 669
- Reaction score
- 877
- Location
- Kirkland WA USA
- Vehicles
- Toyota Sienna
- Occupation
- Private Lending Educator
If anyone has watched any of the auto-recovery tv shows or youtube videos...
A person does not need to start a car to steal it. If you have the right equipment, a car can be towed away pretty quickly. If the "tow" is a theft, one might not ever see the car again. But as in all things, what is the ROI on this? Dropping a teen in a parking structure to hotwire and drive off in a Honda is much less total profit but the costs and risks are so low that it is much more desirable to just work the low-tech end of things at least for now.
There are a lot of high-end cars around here in Seattle. The opportunity is certainly available if one wanted to get those cars. But generally it is still the normal daily driver vehicles that tend to get stolen. The additional benefit is that they are easy to sell or part out, are all over the place so no one takes a second look at anything happening to them, and are generally not protected the same way a high-end car may be.
