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No, thieves are not desperately envious of your 13-year-old pickup truck

Why do older one-ton trucks continue to dominate the list of "most stolen" vehicles in Canada?

Why older, one-ton trucks dominate the list of "most stolen" vehicles in Canada

Matt Carpenter is the academic chair of automotive programs at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. (Anis Heydari/CBC)
For five of the last six years, various model years of the Ford F-350 have been the most stolen vehicle in Canada.

So what is it that makes these gargantuan trucks such a popular target?

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Is it just that people love one-ton trucks that much - that a Ford sitting in a parking lot or driveway presents a siren call?
As producer Anis Heydari found out, these trucks keep being targetted because vehicles their age are a low-hanging fruit.


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