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Originally posted by Undertoad
I always remember tw pointing out that the theft numbers were driven by the parts market... but I bet Griff is right. The Escalade and Navigator are just plain high visibility vehicles in high demand overall.
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Failure rates causing parts demands are but one major reasons for car theft. Lesser reasons are many who drive stolen cars with VIN removed or modified. This is more common in towns that don't have law enforcement such as many parts of Philly - especially now that terrorists exist on every city block and police have no time or money for criminal investigations.. Also driving those theft rates are access to port cities. Places such as Port Newak and Chattanooga TN are international port towns where vehicles are put into containers and shipped to places where more cars are most often stolen - ie Belize in Central America.
But then GMC and Chevy versions of the same vehicle do not have all those additional expensive parts (those so many options that make the vehicle about 50K) that make the Excalade a better theft. Which would you steal? The stripped down model of the one full of so many additional peripherals - more parts to sell?
BTW, investigators are also confused by this. Cadillac is suppose to have one of the best theft deterent systems among all cars. Why then are theives finding this car so easy to steal?