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Speaker 1: Now the country's most stolen car is now so expensive

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Speaker 1: to ensure that it's costing some key. He's nearly three

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Speaker 1: grand a year just in insurance premiums. This is the

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Speaker 1: Toyota Aqua. It's been the most stolen car for two

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Speaker 1: years running. You can buy these things for six k right,

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Speaker 1: six k secondhand, which means that within two years, taking

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Speaker 1: into account insurance premiums, you've bought the thing twice. Motor

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Speaker 1: Trade Association spokesperson Larry Fallowfielder is with us.

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Speaker 2: Now, Hey, Larry, Hey, Heather, how are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm very well, thank you. I mean, this doesn't sound

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Speaker 1: to me like it's worth insuring.

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Speaker 2: What do you think, Well, I think it's like everything.

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Speaker 2: If you don't ensure it gets stolen, then you're out

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Speaker 2: of pocket for six grand. So it is high. But

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Speaker 2: when you think about that, they are the most stolen car,

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Speaker 2: uisum But they are also the most popular car from

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Speaker 2: a used import perspective. Head that that's in the last

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Speaker 2: two and a bit years. They do represent nearly twelve

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Speaker 2: percent of the vehicles registered in New Zealand from a

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Speaker 2: used import perspective, So when you think about the most

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Speaker 2: popular car, they're always going to be a target. And

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Speaker 2: I think there's a little bit more to it than that.

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Speaker 2: These cars aren't stolen to go shopping. Well maybe they

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Speaker 2: are stolen to go shopping in just a different form

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Speaker 2: that you and I go shop.

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Speaker 1: But they're stolen to blend in, aren't they. That's the

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Speaker 1: whole point of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, if you think about it, you watch the news,

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Speaker 2: you'll see that pretty much most ram raids or criminal

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Speaker 2: event that happens is probably in a small car like

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Speaker 2: an Equa. You know. So why is that? Because well,

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Speaker 2: I think they're easy to break into, aren't they? From

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Speaker 2: Net's side, you know, there are They don't have the

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Speaker 2: modern features like immobilizers like other cars. And I think

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Speaker 2: the other thing is insurance companies are saying, you know,

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Speaker 2: if you fit in a mobilizer, then obviously there's a

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Speaker 2: there's a change to what your premiums look like.

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Speaker 1: Larry, is that the solution if you've got one of

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Speaker 1: these cars and you really don't want it to get next,

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Speaker 1: do you need to get in a mobilizer?

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Speaker 2: Well, look, I think there's a couple of solutions there,

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Speaker 2: header and a mobilizer is one. The second would be,

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Speaker 2: you know, steering up, it goes on the steering wheel.

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Speaker 2: You know, you isn't it, But but hey, it works,

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Speaker 2: you know, because they'll take the easiest option, and if

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Speaker 2: it's got a steering handle lock on it, it's just

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Speaker 2: too hard for them to get those off.

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Speaker 1: I mean, listen, the reason that people love these cars

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Speaker 1: is because they are really really economical right there, They're

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Speaker 1: really cheap to runt. Surely though, there must be something

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Speaker 1: similar out there that isn't being nicked at quite the

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Speaker 1: same rate.

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Speaker 2: Well, I suppose there is. There is lots of vehicles

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Speaker 2: out there that are that are similar. There's two things

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Speaker 2: about them. They are economical, as you've highlighted, and they

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Speaker 2: are reliable. You know, Toyota is a reliable brand, so

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Speaker 2: you know from that side, there's a couple of elements

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Speaker 2: that make them popular.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Larry, while I've got you, have you been following

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Speaker 1: this Toyota faulty safety data saga?

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Speaker 2: I have a little bit.

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Speaker 1: What do you make of the raid overnight?

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Speaker 2: What? Sorry, the raid overnight?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Which raid was that? Oh?

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Speaker 1: This is the you might not have seen it. Ll Larry,

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Speaker 1: go and read it. It's going to tackle you tickle

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Speaker 1: your pink because it's in your industry. That was Larry

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Speaker 1: Larry Faulerfield, by the way, Motor Trade Association spokesperson. For

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