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These kind of thefts and attempted thefts, from what I have read on this forum, appear to be happening with much more frequency in Europe than in N. America, or at least the USA.
I am guessing it is because of proximity to where the thieves would want to ship them, with most of them probably going to Russia or the Ukraine and perhaps some to other authoritarian countries such as N. Korea.
In addition, the clusters of the US vehicles are in mph whereas in the rest of the world, including Canada, they are in kph. The cluster for these vehicles is presumably unique to the 1M, so too many orders coming in for cluster changes might alert the factory and the authorities to stolen vehicles, another reason for preferring ones outfitted with kph for vehicles to "relocated" to most of the places where a stolen one might go and be "undetected," or at least not looked for.
But Geneva? Now that is scary, if it is that easy to steal a vehicle like this in Switzerland, which by most any measure would be considered among the most "civilized" places on earth, we are really in trouble in the developed world.
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