The hybrid car has more and more success, with customers but also with thieves. The magazine “Auto Plus” publishes the list of flights in 2021.
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If you own a Toyota Prius and don’t have a garage to get it through the night safely, be careful. Auto More (article reserved for subscribers) analyzed the data of nine traditional insurers: with 227 thefts for 10,000 cars, the Toyota Prius ranks at the top of the annual list of thefts. In the hybrid or electric category, the Prius overtakes the luxurious DS 7 Crossback SUV and the Renault Mégane RS, which occupied the two highest places on the podium in 2020. Other models, although more modest, follow in the ranking of flights including the Renault Clio 4, the Peugeot 3008 SUV and the Peugeot 208.
The Toyota Prius is a very popular model. A city car rather than a long-distance road car, the Prius is popular with taxi drivers in major cities. Besides the fact that this model is more and more widespread, there are the elements that make up the vehicle. According to Auto More, the Prius hybrid’s catalytic exhaust pipe is trafficked in rare metals – rhodium and palladium in particular – whose prices are currently soaring on the markets.
With the exception of certain departments such as Loir-et-Cher, Vendée, Meuse and Guyana, car thefts, in general, all models combined, fell during the crisis. More than whole vehicles, we are seeing more and more theft of equipment, which could well become an adjustment variable for the price of insurance contracts, but this is not the case so far. .