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Mail From: (email redacted) (Greg Powers)

Last night I saw a list of the top 20 most stolen vehicles in 1994. I
was suprised to see that there were no Fords listed. I expected to see
'87-'93 Mustangs on there somewhere. Anyway, of the top 100 most stolen
cars, only 8 were Fords (they didn't say which ones), and a whopping 56
were GM products. Now go turn your alarm on...


Greg Powers
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Mail From: chucko (Chuck Fry)

Date: Thu, 12 Jan 95 12:48:18 -0500
From: (email redacted) (Greg Powers)

Last night I saw a list of the top 20 most stolen vehicles in 1994. I
was suprised to see that there were no Fords listed. I expected to see
'87-'93 Mustangs on there somewhere.

I think what you saw was the top 20 in terms of *number* of vehicles
stolen. Late Mustangs are very high on the rate-of-theft charts,
unfortunately.

Anyway, of the top 100 most stolen
cars, only 8 were Fords (they didn't say which ones), and a whopping 56
were GM products.

This reinforces what I said above. Like it or not, GM sells a LOT of
vehicles!
-- Chuck

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Mail From: Dan Jones <(email redacted)>

Greg,

I had a friend who works in a body shop show me why. GM vehicles are
extremely easy to steal. Once inside a GM, he can knock out the
ignition switch and drive away in less than a minute. He says Fords
are harder. No, he's not a car thief on the side. A while back GM
made changes which make their new cars harder to steal. They started
with the Corvette, but have spread it to other cars in their line.
They use a key with a coded resistor in it. Apparently knocking out
the ignition switch and hot wiring doesn't work as easily anymore.
You must have to match the key resistance before the ignition switch
will work. I think they have an acronym like PASS associated with it.
The resistor must be very specific, otherwise the enterprising car
thief could just hook up a variable resistance potentiometer and be
on his way.
Cheers,
Dan Jones
>
> Last night I saw a list of the top 20 most stolen vehicles in 1994. I
> was suprised to see that there were no Fords listed. I expected to see
> '87-'93 Mustangs on there somewhere. Anyway, of the top 100 most stolen
> cars, only 8 were Fords (they didn't say which ones), and a whopping 56
> were GM products. Now go turn your alarm on...
>
>
> Greg Powers
> ((email redacted))
>