Gangs that specialize in auto theft typically drive stolen vehicles to salvage yards that turn a blind eye to illicit goings-on, dismantle them as quickly as possible and ship them out of the country in container ships and reassemble them for sale elsewhere.

I was classmates with a pretty girl who sat next to me in class. I later found out that her father (after he was busted) ran the biggest chop shop operation for stolen cars on Chicago's Southside. In the Chicago area, these car thieves would go to parking lots of large suburban shopping malls and steal over 50 cars in a single day. They say that a car is worth more broken up and sold into bits and pieces than it is whole.

Some of the crooked "salvage yards" are owned and operated by Japanese but many are run by Pakistani, Afghani or Nigerian nationals. Why the authorities don't make more effort to control these places is a mystery.

kei trucks are not big pieces of cake...target is completely different class of cars...

kei trucks are not big pieces of cake...target is completely different class of cars...

Very profitable business can be done also aiming for volume of cheap trucks as long as they are popular.