and found there was an 890% increase in the number of Hyundai and Kia vehicles stolen citywide, amounting to thousands of cars, according to data from the Chicago Police Department.
“During the past year we’ve seen theft rates for certain Hyundai and Kia vehicles more than triple and in some markets these vehicles are almost 20 times more likely to be stolen than other vehicles,” a Progressive spokesperson told NBC 5 Responds. “In response, in some geographic areas we have increased our rates and limited our sale of new insurance policies on some of these models.”
for each company’s “failure to address” thefts of their vehicles nationwide; a problem that the states say was created by the automakers themselves. A potential solution is on its way for millions of Hyundai and Kia drivers whose vehicles are more vulnerable to theft, but safety advocates believe the free fix may have come too late and doesn’t go far enough. Lexi Sutter has the story.
It’s cheaper for them to individually pay people, then to actually do a recall on their horrible cars if only we could do a recall in the horrible drivers
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