About 200 insurance companies allege that the automakers' Korean parent entities knowingly shipped vehicles without engine immobilizers into California ports.
The theft spree traces back to a design gap nobody outside the factory noticed for years. UCLA anthropology professor Jeffrey Brantingham put it bluntly: "Thieves didn't know these Hyundai and Kia cars were easy to steal until about 2020." Once TikTok tutorials spread, that changed fast.
Los Angeles saw thefts roughly double between the summer of 2019 and the summer of 2020, a spike researchers tie to idle cars sitting through pandemic lockdowns across the county's nearly 8 million registered vehicles. A UCLA study now projects elevated theft rates for these vulnerable Hyundai and Kia models will persist through 2042.
Los Angeles saw thefts roughly double between the summer of 2019 and the summer of 2020, a spike researchers tie to idle cars sitting through pandemic lockdowns across the county's nearly 8 million registered vehicles. A UCLA study now projects elevated theft rates for these vulnerable Hyundai and Kia models will persist through 2042.
I'm still unclear on why this is actionable. A potential buyer looks at a Camry and then walks into the Hyundai dealer across the street and buys a Sonata because it's thousands of dollars less. It never occured to him to ask why it's thousands less? It seems to me that it's like an owner of a Chevrolet complaining because he didn't get leather upholstery like his neighbor who bought a Cadillac.
ReplyDelete" insurance companies allege that the automakers' Korean parent entities knowingly shipped vehicles without engine immobilizers into California ports."
Deletethat implies that shipping them to California was not allowed. Probably due to the fact that they did not have engine immobilizers... and as an owner of one of these, who was TOLD that they had one (I heard about the engine immobilizer feature when a friend bought a Chevy Cruze) and now this comes out that they knew they were shipping, and selling, and telling customers that the vehicles had a theft protection feature that they knew was not installed?
That is legally actionable.
It has nothing to do with price, comparisons with Camry's, Cadillac leather seats, or Chevys.
It's bait and switch.
How's that for answering your question in a way to make it clear?