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Thanks for reminding me of the Miata/Civic thefts, I nearly forgot how big that was in the mid 2010s. I recall so many articles of that happening. I was living

Thanks for reminding me of the Miata/Civic thefts, I nearly forgot how big that was in the mid 2010s. I recall so many articles of that happening. I was living in Miami during that time, a friend had his EK hatch stolen, beautiful example too, spent a fortune on that car and it showed. Of course the aftermath was the same ole story of it being stripped, and cut to a near nonexistent state. Now thinking on this "solution" the amount of social engineering that happens today will defeat this pretty quickly. Most of the thefts for cars like my friends were done by people who knew the owners.

rootsudo 3y ago
Unfortunately it's happening more now, simply because the value of the 90's/first generation ones are through the roof (haha get it, because it's topless?). Hard tops are now worth $2500-4000 in Miata world. Used to be you couldn't sell one for $500 or so. Running cars are worth $5000, coupled with a hard top its worth around $7000 easily - mint/very nice ones exceed $10,000. For a 20-30yr old car, it's appreciating to exceed new cost (msrp for a 1990 miata was not even $14,000!) Over in honda land, same thing, you used to be able to pick up a basic ek no/manual/only option is AC for less than $3,000 now those are the ones in most demand and exceed $15,000-20,000!