BMW X5 Stolen

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@DTS

How can you even compair the clothing industry to the automotive industry?

from an international branding, marketing, publicity, labour, manufacturing and cultural importance perpective the textile industry is incredibly similar and in many case more heavily regulated than the automotive industry. Many nations have thier prime exports very closely tied to textiles (raw materials [cotton] and labour) as others do to the automotive industry (raw materials [steel] and labour)

the social importance of each industry gives rise to regulation and the degrees of it.

@DTS

So are you saying that if I take the ignition cylinder and door lock cylinder out of a Honda Civic in the UK and comapir it to the one in Canada it will be noticably modified to make it easier to steal?

Dave said this:

@2G-Money

I’ve been to England, several times, they had factory security keypads and chipped keys and immobilizers because it became such a problem.

@DTS

Do you acutually think that a company as large as GM (Who sells cars in the UK) who had net profits of $529 million dollars in 2006 is going to potentially risk going bankrupt when the public finds out that they alter their cars to make them easier to steal in North America.

For what? So they can potentially get only a couple of million more in net sales?

companies have done even more dispicable things than that…

for example, Bayer Corp intentionally distributed blood in third world countries known to be infected with HIV.

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they did not go bankrupt and that is a far wrse atrocity than the supposed one in this case though i am not supporting dave’s arguement, i am simply opposing your point that it would mean bankruptcy.

@DTS

This is not some little fly by night operation you are talking about here, you are talking about some of the largest companies in the world, who are closly watched.

And the same goes for any other car manufacturer.

Automotive manufacturers are not just automotive manufacturers, their influence is far reaching and in fact they can get away with incredible things that you would think they shouldnt be allowed to get away with.

i have several documentaries about this type of thing that i could show you in fact.

@DTS

You need to also understand that there are 298 million people in the United States and that there is only 60 million people in England.

It is much easier for your precentages to drop when there are far less cars on the road in the UK vs the United States.

The population of the United States is nearly 5x larger than England.

If you steal 1 car in a population of 100 then 1% of the cars have been stolen. (England)
If you steal 1 car in a population of 500 (5x bigger than the origional) 0.2% of the cars have been stolen. (United States)

your math is correct, but percentages are by defination relative measures. the decreases mentioned would be relative to previous year stats in the same geographical region, not across international bounderies and over differing populations.

what you are saying is that the absolute number of 1% of cars in the UK is equal to the absolute of .2% of US cars.

that doesnt have any relevance to relative changes per year in automotive theft statistics.

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i dont necessarily agree with Dave at all here… but i hate the way that some people’s arguements might lead lurkers to think they have a valid point.

since no one beleives me when i thrash against certain people who oppose my informed opinions regarding certain issues perhaps the point will be made when i dont have anything to do with the subject matter