Toyota HiLux a top target for car thieves Toyota HiLux a top target for car thieves March 12, 2021 Top-selling utes join Commodore as most-stolen vehicles, even as COVID-19 reduces theft rate in 2020 The Toyota HiLux accounted for a high proportion of motor vehicle thefts in Australia in 2020, with car thieves’ perennial favourite, the Holden Commodore, the only model targeted more heavily than the Japanese brand’s top-selling ute. Data for the 2020 calendar year just released by the National Motor Vehicle Theft Reduction Council (NMVTRC) shows that 49,438 thefts were recorded across all vehicle segments, which represents the lowest volume in the two decades since the council’s inception – beating the previous low of 50,277 thefts in 2014.