The most stolen cars in the UK in 2026

The short answer: the newest full-year DVLA figures, covering 2025 and released in February 2026, are the most up-to-date model list available. The Ford Fiesta was again the most stolen car in Britain in 2025, with 3,511 reported thefts, more than the Volkswagen Golf and Ford Focus put together. Behind it sit keyless Toyota and Lexus SUVs, the BMW 3 Series and the Nissan Juke. Overall thefts fell: 54,830 vehicles were recorded as stolen in 2025, against 61,343 in 2024.

The top 20 models

These counts come from DVLA lost-or-stolen records released under a Freedom of Information request and published by What Car? in February 2026. They are raw numbers, not rates: a common car appears high partly because there are so many of them on the road.

The rank order is What Car?'s own; the C-Class figure sits out of numerical order in their published table, and we reproduce it as printed rather than guess at a correction.

Three groups of targets

Older, everyday hatchbacks

What Car? reports that Fiestas built between 2008 and 2017 made up 86% of Fiesta thefts. Cars of that age are often taken for parts, which are in steady demand while so many remain on the road. A visible steering lock and a tracker that alerts you quickly both matter more here than the car's value suggests.

Keyless SUVs from Toyota and Lexus

The RAV4, C-HR and NX together put three Toyota-group models in the top ten. These are the cars most associated with keyless relay attacks and CAN injection, where thieves reach the vehicle's wiring from outside and send it the messages a genuine key would. Read our Toyota RAV4 security guide and the Lexus NX guide for the model-specific detail.

Land Rover and Range Rover

The Evoque is still in the top ten, but What Car? notes its 895 thefts were 18% fewer than in 2024, which was itself a 35% fall on the year before. Land Rover models fell sharply after the manufacturer added security updates and newer keys, so the risk now depends heavily on the exact year and whether those updates have been applied.

What the figures cannot tell you

• Your own risk. Where the car is parked overnight and how it is locked matters as much as the model. Our vehicle crime by town pages show the picture near you from police data.
• Recovery. DVLA records show a theft, not whether the car came back.
• Vans and pickups. This list covers cars; commercial vehicles are counted separately.

Protecting a high-risk model

For the models above, the combination that insurers and police most often recommend is an immobiliser that stops the engine starting without a second step, plus a monitored tracker so a stolen car can be found. Our installers are TASSA and Autowatch approved and can confirm what fits your exact year. See S5 or S7? for the tracker categories.

Common questions

Figures: DVLA lost-or-stolen data for 2025, obtained under FOI and published by What Car?, as reported in February 2026. Brand and model names are trademarks of their owners; Trackerstop is not affiliated with any manufacturer.