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Speaker 1: The Toyota Aqua is the most stolen car in New

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Speaker 1: Zealand for the third year in a row. If you

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Speaker 1: haven't seen one, probably because they're speeding past at nighttime,

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Speaker 1: being driven by a criminal, by a thief. David Linklater

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Speaker 1: is the driven Deputy editor who's with us this morning. David,

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Speaker 1: good morning recording. Why is the Aqua so popular among thieves?

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Speaker 2: Look, some of it's just down to numbers. I think

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Speaker 2: it's a hugely popular used import. When you think of

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Speaker 2: all of the used imports that come into New Zealand,

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Speaker 2: about half of those toyotas every year, and Aqua is

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Speaker 2: the number one toyota used import, so there's just tens

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Speaker 2: of thousands of them on the road. But there's obviously

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Speaker 2: something about the early acquas that were made, this first

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Speaker 2: generation that receives so many of them were made for

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Speaker 2: about a decade and twenty eleven. I think there's something

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Speaker 2: about those acquas that makes them very easy to steal.

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Speaker 2: Because the number two used import is the standard Preus

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Speaker 2: and that's not on the solen list anywhere. So there's

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Speaker 2: something special about an acula or a pre c as

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Speaker 2: you might also call it. To thieves.

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Speaker 1: There used to be an issue with the Subaru windows

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Speaker 1: that made them quite popular with these Do you think

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Speaker 1: it's something like that.

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Speaker 2: It could be something like that, And I mean pop

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Speaker 2: tip if you're thinking of buying an act Quat. Some

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Speaker 2: of the later models have a push button start, which

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Speaker 2: I understand are much harder to steal. So the early

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Speaker 2: ones just have a key start. So if you are

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Speaker 2: looking for an Acqua, and a lot of people obviously

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Speaker 2: are because they're super popular, look for one with the

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Speaker 2: push button start and press are still on that list,

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Speaker 2: by the way, it's still number eight, so sober you're

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Speaker 2: still there.

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Speaker 1: And that's the window issue. What about the immobilizers? Do

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Speaker 1: do these smaller cars not have them? Is that part

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Speaker 1: of the appeal too?

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of the early ones don't and

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Speaker 2: used in brought cars from Japan, you know, Japanese domestic models.

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Speaker 2: We're famously sort of lacking a lot of that basic

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Speaker 2: safety stuff in the early days. And remember we're talking

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Speaker 2: about you know, relatively old cars date back sort of

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Speaker 2: twenty eleven some of them. So again, the later ones

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Speaker 2: are probably the ones to look for if you're buying them,

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Speaker 2: because they'll have a lot more safety gear.

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Speaker 1: David, it's the tank of cars that can't be stolen.

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Speaker 1: If I'm really worried about having my car neck during

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Speaker 1: the night, what should I buy?

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's sixty four thousand dollar question. Isn't it probably

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Speaker 2: cost you about sixty four thousand dollars too? I mean

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Speaker 2: the rule, if I'm really is the newer the better,

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Speaker 2: because newer cars are much shouted to seal and a

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Speaker 2: lot of you know, if you look at the top

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Speaker 2: ten sort of stolen cars list, they all are of

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Speaker 2: a type there. Their apologies to anybody who values who

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Speaker 2: loves their equa, but they're all quite anonymous, very familiar cars,

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Speaker 2: and I guess most of them get stolen to do

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Speaker 2: something bared with and so they're quite they're not noticed

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Speaker 2: on the street, they're easy to drive around, and they're plentiful,

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Speaker 2: so you can always find one on the street. So

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Speaker 2: buy something wacky, I guess, David.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, David Link. They had a driven deputy editor

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Speaker 1: with us this morning. Yeah, you only noticed the acqua

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Speaker 1: when it's you know, sort of assend is sticking out

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Speaker 1: of a dairy, don't you.

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