Car security for expensive cars is becoming ever more important as the number of criminals stealing expensive cars in the world is rising. I say the world as it is an international problem. If your car is stolen with the aim of selling it on you can bet your bottom dollar it will end up abroad. Often they end up in third world countries or developing countries.
The need for vehicle tracking of expensive cars is such the most insurance companies either give you a hefty discount for having it or simply will not insure you without it. This does not the case with an Astra or Mondeo; it’s more a problem for someone driving around in a £60000 motor vehicle.
The problem of commercial car crime is not just limited to expensive cars. Hire companies are also starting to find an increase in their vehicles being stolen. They hire the car out to someone with fake documents and then they never see the car again as it is taken abroad in a container to be sold on the black market.
As the drugs trade carries huge custodial sentences if you get caught, organised crime is looking for new ways of making money with lower custodial sentences if you get caught. Car crime is just one area they are expanding into, along with smuggling in tobacco which also has less of hero factor about it.
