One In Four Of These Luxury SUVs Is Stolen In Ontario

  • RAV4 and Ram 1500 top Canada’s list of most stolen vehicles.
  • Trucks and SUVs dominate both theft volume and frequency.
  • The Lexus TX is proving irresistible to car thieves in Ontario.

If you’re in the market shopping for a new ride in Canada, you might want to check whether the model you want has already made it onto another kind of shopping list, of the criminal kind.

Équité Association has released its latest roundup of Canada’s Top 10 Most Stolen Vehicles of 2024, and once again, the results read like a greatest-hits album of the country’s most popular trucks and SUVs. But there’s a twist to this story that’s bad news for one lesser-spotted model.

Which Models Top the Charts?

The most stolen vehicle in Canada this year is the previous-generation Toyota RAV4, with 2,080 thefts recorded and the MY21 proving particularly tempting to thieves.

Given that every second driveway in Canada seems to have a RAV4 parked in it, this probably isn’t shocking. The compact SUV just ticks every box for criminals: huge resale demand, easy parts movement, global desirability and lots of them sitting out in the wild.

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Second place goes to the Ram 1500 Series with 2,018 thefts, followed closely by the Honda CR-V at 1,911 and the Honda CR-V with 1,911.

Ford’s F-150 truck, Canada’s best-selling vehicle, is fourth, and rounding out the top 10 are the Jeep Wrangler, GM’s Silverado/Sierra twins, the Toyota Highlander, the Toyota Tundra and the Lexus RX.

Canada Vehicle Thefts
One In Four Of These Luxury SUVs Is Stolen In Ontario
Équité Association

But raw theft numbers don’t tell the whole story. Canadian thieves also have a different way of choosing their favorites, and it flips the rankings entirely.

Frequency Flips the Rankings

When you look at theft frequency, the number of vehicles stolen as a percentage of how many are insured, the chart flips upside down. The most frequently stolen vehicle in the entire country is, rather surprisingly, the Lexus TX.

Only 967 of them are insured, yet 144 were stolen. That works out to a jaw-dropping 14.89 percent, or one in seven theft rate. And when you drill down by region (see tables at bottom of post) to see the figures for Ontario, the rate of thefts jumps to a crazy one in four!

In other words, if you live in Canada’s southernmost province and own a Lexus TX, you may want to get a bank vault for a garage.

Canada Vehicle Thefts by Frequency
One In Four Of These Luxury SUVs Is Stolen In Ontario
Équité Association

Next up is the Toyota Grand Highlander at 4.29 percent, followed by the Land Rover Defender at 2.95 percent, the Mercedes-Benz G-Class at 2.73 percent, and the Range Rover at 2.44 percent. Are you sensing a theme here? Pricey SUVs are as desirable to thieves as they are the rest of us.

Lower down the frequency list are the Lexus GX, Acura TLX, Jaguar F-Pace, Toyota Tundra and Jeep Gladiator, all with theft rates hovering between 1.45 and 1.88 percent.

Thefts in Canada remain a billion-dollar headache, and judging from these rankings, thieves continue to be extremely on-trend with their choices.

If your driveway looks like it belongs in an upscale outdoor-gear commercial, now might be the perfect time to invest in a steering-wheel lock, a decent camera system and, maybe, a very angry dog.

Canada Vehicle Thefts by Region
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Canada Vehicle Theft Frequency by Region
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