Now, with the latest vehicle steal-ability rankings available, you can also choose a car that isn’t easy prey for thieves.

The Royal Automobile Club of Victoria scored a number of small, small-medium, medium and large cars as well as people movers, four-wheel drives and luxury vehicles out of a possible 120 points.

Nowra smash repairer Ron McGuire said the number of stolen cars coming through his car yard had fallen compared with an influx around three to four years ago.

“We haven’t seen a lot lately, but a few years ago we had a run of Holden VNs, VLs and Hyundai Excels.

“They seemed to be the most common cars to be stolen,” he said.

Mr McGuire said as time went on advances in technology, such as keyless entry meant cars were becoming harder to steal.

In addition to security innovations, Mr McGuire praised the efforts of local police in tracking down car thieves.

“They just keep plugging away until they get them, and they do get them,” he said.

According to the RACV rankings, small car Honda Jazz scored a meagre 30.5 points out of 120, putting it among the easiest to pinch.

The top ranked small car was the Citroen C3 with 79.5 points.

Faring the best over all classes and offering little hope for would-be thieves was luxury car Audi A8 with a score of 113.5.

The Audi A3, Subaru Liberty, Hyundai Grandeur, Subaru Tribeca and the Audi Q7 also scored top rankings for their class.

Mr McGuire agreed that Audi vehicles were particularly well equipped against theft.

Coming in at the bottom of each category were Holden Viva, Holden Epica, Toyota Aurion, Honda Odyssey, Nissan Patrol and Nissan Maxima.

Mr McGuire said that regardless of the type of car they owned, locals could take precautions to deter thieves.

“The biggest thing for people is to not leave anything in their car, even $2 in the ashtray.

“That is a bag of chips to someone and they don’t care, they will put a brick through your window for 10 cents,” he said.