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Might be worth a watch to help protect the modern daily driver car...

Britain's Car Theft Gangs Exposed: Dispatches (8pm Thursday 19/6/25 - Ch4).
"Every eight minutes a car is stolen in Britain. Ch4 Dispatches goes undercover on the tail of the thieves driving this car-crime epidemic.
The Dispatches documentary found that Hyundai, Kia, Toyota and Lexus cars were increasingly being stolen as well as higher-value Range Rovers, etc.
The Middle East and Africa have a huge market for second-hand car parts, driving the demand for stolen cars in the UK which is also linked to the illegal drugs market. Whereas they were finding Range Rovers, now there are more pickup trucks and SUVs. Brands like Hyundai, Kia, Toyota, Lexus, so the brand quality targeted may have dropped but the volumes have gone up. 
Shipping containers at Felixstowe (the UK's largest container port where 11,000 shipping containers pass through each day) are opened during the Ch4 documentary by the 'National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service' (NaVCIS), a privately-funded force working with the UK Police. Figures suggest seven out of ten cars stolen in England and Wales are never recovered. Freedom of Information requests to police forces in England and Wales revealed that (for the 18 forces who responded) only 3.4% of reports of a car being stolen between 2020 and 2024 led to someone being charged or summonsed. Highly organised gangs are also stealing cars then dismantling them at so called 'chop shops' before shipping them out of the country. In one clip, two car thieves demonstrate how they can use keyless technology bought from the dark web to steal a car in just 20 seconds."
https://www.channel4...osed-dispatches