Most end up, say the police, either stripped for their parts or given new identities and sold on the second-hand market.
One issue that is important to many buyers is how the value of electric cars will hold up in the second-hand market.
What police have seen, he said, is a change in the profile of victims as thieves become less likely to steal cash and more likely to steal phones which are "highly sellable on the second-hand market".
As always, there are risks involved with the second-hand luxury market, primarily the problem of rampant counterfeiting.
Whatever happens with the next console generation, the second-hand game market is going to look a lot less lucrative.
The second-hand clothes market that has sprung up is another.
But the toughest part of the market is second-hand petrol guzzlers.
The women could now efficiently send money to relatives from their small business selling second-hand clothing in the local market.
"As much as I don't like second-hand clothes to be in the market, I don't have an alternative, " she says.
Mr Gahbauer added that as a result, fewer second-hand properties had come onto the market "than is normally the case in recessions", which moved the balance of supply and demand "more in favour of sellers over the course of 2009".
There is also a huge second-hand market for lederhosen, but unfortunately, the older the outfit, the more expensive it is.
They then use the stream of income from customers' repayments to secure debt from the capital market, even as they discount their new cars and weaken second-hand values.
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