On average, a vehicle is stolen every two minutes in the UK. That makes for worrying reading, but the fact that half of them – around 103,000 – are never recovered is downright frightening.

With car firms now habitually fitting complex immobilisers and alarms as standard on new models, opportunist thefts have been cut drastically. Unfortunately, professional thieves now work in a different way. Statistics show that the most common method of stealing a car is to burgle your house (which, ironically, is usually far less secure than your vehicle) and take the keys.

So, if you ultimately can’t prevent your car being stolen, the next best thing is to make sure you can trace it once it’s gone – and that’s where hi-tech tracking devices come into play.