If one wants a car no crook will imagine touching, look at a Toyota Prius. Prius theft rates are lower, by many times over, than almost any other passenger vehicle. Are you currently looking to purchase or sell a new or used Ford Escape Spokane? If this seems like you, don’t go anywhere else before you take a look at cars in Spokane!
Burglars not pleased with hybrid technology
Gas mileage is not the only thing people look at when buying a car. In fact, the Prius is very boring with regards to other attributes. It has low emissions, but its cargo room is tiny. It also takes forever to get up to full speed on the highway.
The great car is not enough because it is really just boring. It does not matter if it is a good example or not.
The Toyota Prius robbery rate is very low, most likely for these reasons. For most cars, 1 in 78 will get stolen. For a Prius, only 1 in every 608 units gets stolen, according to the National insurance Crime Agency.
No one wants to steal one
Of the 2,439 robberies of Prius automobiles between 2000 and 2012, according to Inside Line, most of them were the 2008 through 2010 models. The NHTSA explained that there have been almost no Prius thefts for the last ten years in comparison.
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National Highway Transportation Safety Administration car theft info shows the number of robberies per year of the Prius and seems like they have accelerated in recent years. The information is sprinkled on multiple pages about Toyota thefts and Prius thefts, and one would think with all that taxpayer funding they could afford some good spreadsheets but that aside, only 7 Prius of the 2000 and 2001 model year, 23 for the 2002 to 2003 model, 16 for the 2003 and 20 for the 2004. In 2007, there were 53 Prius thefts, a further 84 in 2008, 27 in 2009 and 78 in 2010.
By way of comparison, there were 206 2007 Tacoma pickup robberies and 1,003 Camry and Solara robberies for that model year.
Not too difficult to recover
The other good news about the Prius theft rates is that the majority of the stolen cars are recovered, as there is a 96.7 percent recovery rate, according to AutoGuide. AutoGuide says that it's because it's fantastically hard to part out a Prius, which is what occurs to most stolen vehicles, but some might prefer to think it's because robbers realize how terrible they are after they take them.
So everyone thinking of picking one up from, say, Sandy Springs Toyota in Atlanta, can rest easy about this getting nicked. Not a soul wants to steal one.
Sources
AutoGuide
InsideLine
NHTSA
Burglars not pleased with hybrid technology
Gas mileage is not the only thing people look at when buying a car. In fact, the Prius is very boring with regards to other attributes. It has low emissions, but its cargo room is tiny. It also takes forever to get up to full speed on the highway.
The great car is not enough because it is really just boring. It does not matter if it is a good example or not.
The Toyota Prius robbery rate is very low, most likely for these reasons. For most cars, 1 in 78 will get stolen. For a Prius, only 1 in every 608 units gets stolen, according to the National insurance Crime Agency.
No one wants to steal one
Of the 2,439 robberies of Prius automobiles between 2000 and 2012, according to Inside Line, most of them were the 2008 through 2010 models. The NHTSA explained that there have been almost no Prius thefts for the last ten years in comparison.
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National Highway Transportation Safety Administration car theft info shows the number of robberies per year of the Prius and seems like they have accelerated in recent years. The information is sprinkled on multiple pages about Toyota thefts and Prius thefts, and one would think with all that taxpayer funding they could afford some good spreadsheets but that aside, only 7 Prius of the 2000 and 2001 model year, 23 for the 2002 to 2003 model, 16 for the 2003 and 20 for the 2004. In 2007, there were 53 Prius thefts, a further 84 in 2008, 27 in 2009 and 78 in 2010.
By way of comparison, there were 206 2007 Tacoma pickup robberies and 1,003 Camry and Solara robberies for that model year.
Not too difficult to recover
The other good news about the Prius theft rates is that the majority of the stolen cars are recovered, as there is a 96.7 percent recovery rate, according to AutoGuide. AutoGuide says that it's because it's fantastically hard to part out a Prius, which is what occurs to most stolen vehicles, but some might prefer to think it's because robbers realize how terrible they are after they take them.
So everyone thinking of picking one up from, say, Sandy Springs Toyota in Atlanta, can rest easy about this getting nicked. Not a soul wants to steal one.
Sources
AutoGuide
InsideLine
NHTSA