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Having recently gone through this, I feel for you.
I was lucky enough to be able to ping my car with My BMW app and BMW NA was able to track and give local authorities the location. They had recovered it within 12 hours of it being stolen. |
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VICE did an interesting video on it a few years ago. The cars pop up in Africa wearing US license plates, and people just drive them around like it's nothing. |
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Dunno. I know X5s are a huge target, and Porsche Cayennes. They said if you park a late model X5 in Newark and walk away, it's almost guaranteed to disappear.
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Staying the hell away from Newark wold be an even better one!
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I asked what the local and provincial police were doing about it. His take was they didn't really care. This was a few years ago and at a time when Montreal's Trudeau airport had the worst rate of airport parking lot car theft in the Western world. The shop owner said the word was that the expensive cars were stolen to order, placed in containers shortly after being taken, and soon on their way to the Middle East.
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The container is loaded on a freighter (one of literally thousands of containers) and freighted across the pond. Customs at the Third-World(-ish) palms are greased, the container is stamped as "inspected", and the next thing you know, the car has a new owner. Money makes anything easy. Sigh.
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