Motorsport effects apart, it’s ordinary for carmakers to factor press releases on Sundays – however Land Rover used to be sufficiently moved through a fresh freedom of data request in relation to stolen automotive figures that it made some extent of sharing the DVLA knowledge itself. Its reasoning used to be easy sufficient: regardless of showing 3 times in the United Kingdom’s best ten maximum stolen vehicles of 2023, the numbers prompt that throughout its 4 Vary Rover branded fashions, the authentic reckoning recorded a 20 in step with cent decline in thefts. 

Much more very easily for Land Rover, the most important falls have been recorded through the large price ticket vehicles: thefts of the Vary Rover Recreation and the flagship Vary Rover losing through 28.6 and 27.2 in step with cent within the closing one year. Considerably, the latter didn’t even make it into the highest ten. And whilst 1,631 examples of the Vary Rover Recreation have been nonetheless taken – making it the 5th maximum stolen style in the United Kingdom, narrowly forward of the Evoque in 6th  – Land Rover is obviously happy that the £10m funding it pledged closing 12 months to updating the safety options of ‘greater than 75,000 older shopper automobiles’ has reputedly paid off. 

“The fast decline in Vary Rover thefts within the closing 12 months, demonstrates the energy of our newest car security features,” mentioned Patrick McGillycuddy, JLR’s UK Managing Director. “Those vital discounts are a results of engineering our new automobiles to be tough in opposition to all recognized robbery strategies thru the newest anti-theft generation, counseled through third-party mavens like Thatcham. If truth be told, our newest knowledge presentations that simplest ten out of 12,200 of the newest style of Vary Rovers were stolen since January 2022.”

Evidently there’s nonetheless paintings to do – no longer least as a result of 954 reported thefts of the Discovery Recreation have been a fifteen.2 in step with cent upward thrust in comparison to 2022 and noticed it end tenth at the checklist – however Land Rover insists that the rollout of updates will proceed national, and suggests that there were ‘0’ reported thefts of any JLR car the use of the generally reported key sign ‘relay’ means because it offered Extremely-Huge Band tech to its vehicles in 2018. 

The selection of Vary Rovers stolen was a hot-button factor for the producer early closing 12 months when it used to be claimed that some homeowners residing in London have been suffering to search out reasonably priced insurance coverage for the flagship style after DVLA figures published it used to be the second one maximum taken car after the Ford Fiesta in 2022 (which once more tops the checklist in 2023, owing most commonly to its ubiquity on British roads). 

Along the drop in recorded robbery brought on through advanced security features, Land Rover can level to the re-introduction of a JLR branded insurance coverage scheme closing October aimed toward serving to its shoppers discover a appropriate coverage, and McGillycuddy experiences the company is “additionally investment masses of 1000’s of kilos on further policing to take on the basis reasons – through preventing the go with the flow of stolen vehicles out and in the rustic, to learn all UK drivers”. It seems that, we want the lend a hand: globally, between 2021 and 2022, car thefts have been mentioned to have larger through 59 in step with cent throughout all producers.