Study: Escalade SUV preferred by car thieves

NEW YORK — the Cadillac Escalade, a top pick of the rich and famous of Hollywood stars to Wall Street executives, is also the favorite choice of thieves.

The luxury SUV, which starts at more than $63.000 is probably rogue, is used to target loss to data according to a new study of the highway.

On the basis of insurance claims for model year 2008 to 2010 vehicles, study shows that the Escalade will be six times more likely affected by the thieves as the average vehicle, and his entire theft losses are more than 10 times as large.

The rankings are based on vehicles that were stolen, had taken over the parts such as stereo systems, or had ripped other property in the car.

Matt Moore, Vice President of the Institute, says that the Escalade will be hit more often, because "it so wildly popular, is as far as pop culture is." Television professional athletes to come and see them and other prominent. "It's a status symbol."

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General Motors co. said that it tried to make the Escalade to steal. The SUV includes at present to prevent the vehicles from being a system of Hotwired and steering column lock, which makes it more difficult for thieves to press it removed vehicles or load them on, flat-bed truck.

In addition the 2012 Escalade includes sensors, which set off an alarm if she change in the angle to detect which would occur when the vehicle is towed away is or will be jacked up, along with sensors that sound alarms broken window, column lock is a new wheel lock-system and an improved steering system, GM said.

HLDI, in Arlington, VA-based Insurance Institute for highway safety is calculates the ranking based on the number of robberies per insured vehicle on the road.

The data include not uninsured vehicles or those the 20 percent of the insurance companies to report their numbers not to the Institute.

A total 10.8 claims have been submitted, for every 1,000 insured of Escalades, what average loss payment of $10.555 per claim of insurance to the affected driver, said the study.

Not something new is the Escalade rankings. In combination, have the four versions of the SUV at the top of the list classified says the group for several years.

Pickup trucks are also a favorite of thieves, the next four points in the ranking, including the Ford F-250 crew cab 4WD, the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 crew cab, the Ford F-450 crew cab 4WD and the GMC Sierra 1500 crew cab. Crew of cabs cartridge with a second row of seats.

Moore says that many of the demands of pickup theft of equipment or other items of truck beds is stolen, while the vehicles on construction sites have been rectified.

The Chrysler 300 sedan was the sixth most likely vehicle be and the only car on the list, with 7.1 claims for every 1,000 insured cars and an average loss of $5.509, the group said.

The vehicle at least probably overwhelmed by thieves was the Audi A6 all-wheel drive, a luxury sedan. But the average loss per claim was $16.882. This is 60% higher than in the Escalade, according to the study.

The A6 was followed by the mercury Mariner, a small SUV and Chevrolet Equinox, a mid-sized SUV.

The average vehicle in the study had 1.7 provisions for reported per 1,000 insured vehicles and an average loss per claim of $6.767, the study said.

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