HPI
CrushWatch, the online service helping dealers and motor finance
companies to identify vehicles that are illegal or have finance
payments in arrears, was used 5,586 times in January, with police
recovering vehicles valued at £2,448,196 in total.
Two of the recovered vehicles
were worth more than £50,000: an Audi R8 4.2 Quattro SA valued at
£51,555 was recouped by Greater Manchester police; and a Range
Rover Sport with a price tag of £50,300 by the Staffordshire
force.
The top marquee recovered was
Vauxhall, with 103 vehicles valued at £356,516. A total of 86
Fords
were retrieved, worth £263,661, followed by 32 Peugeots, worth
£105,707.
Of the Vauxhalls, 37 were
Astras, with a combined value of £146,338.
In January, 511 vehicles were identified as illegal or
having finance payments in arrears. The West Yorkshire Police came
top in the value of the vehicles it
recovered (£358,230), followed by the Merseyside force (£287,532)
and Hertfordshire (£192,253).