According to the statistics, in Hellas recorded approx 230 thefts per 100,000 inhabitantswith the New Zealand to owns her first place with 1,171 steals per 100,000 inhabitants.
So thieves easily find buyers who can’t (or don’t want to) spend a lot of money on repairing their car.
From time to time, circuits are created which receive stolen cars, and after solving them in the underground car… surgeries, they usually sell their spare parts to independent neighborhood garages (unauthorized small businesses), which usually do not keep warehouses (incoming, outgoing spare parts), while the corresponding documents for work and spare parts are not issued.
The familiar expression of the “handiman” that owners of cars for repair usually hear is: …I’ll try to find you a good, slightly used part so you don’t have to put in the new, expensive one.
Car thieves now, choose popular cars i.e. they have been sold enough in Greece, but also rarer that spare parts are not easily found. In fact, in some cases of the specific category of stolen cars, the robbers contact the owner asking for a “ransom” to return the car.
According to the information available to us, the car most preferred by thieves in Greece in recent years remains the Smart, mainly manufactured from 1998 to 2014, which they have many common parts.
Of course they don’t prefer the new one, which is electric and therefore has few mechanical parts. Note that a Smart can be stolen particularly easily and without breaking into the street, simply by lifting it on a small platform…
As their second choice, thieves prefer Mini Cooper and especially of the first generation (2006-2008) for the same reasons as him Smart. It follows the pre-previous generation Toyota Yaris as a best seller (great demand for spare parts).
