Nicking a nice looking car is rarely petty crime. It's far more likely to be well organised.
Take a look in Exchange and Mart. The chances are you can find your car for sale - at a really attractive price.
Although sometimes the ad is placed in the week prior to the theft. They find a...
Strangely enough, it was a very similar conversation to the one I once had with a couple of sixteen year old lads who were in the process of nicking my car (a clapped out old mini).
Me:- Excuse me, what do you think you are doing?
Old Lady:- Picking these gooseberries.
Me:- But they're my...
Not in the same league, I know.
But I've just caught an old lady - 70 years old at least - scrumping gooseberries from the front garden. She'd driven out specially, and her excuse was that "nobody else has been picking them".
Old people today!