CAR CLONING

car cloning: translation

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Copying a car's license plate and vehicle identification number and applying them to a stolen car.

—car clonev.,n.

—car clonern.

Car cloningis a growing problem but too little is being done to protect the person whose vehicle is cloned.

There was one man in Leeds who was sent a congestion charge bill even though he hadn't been to London.

— Steve Boggan, "My day as a car clone cheat,"The Evening Standard(London), August 19, 2003

There are two main ways of unloading a stolen car on to the market.Until recently the most common form was known as ringing, whereby a stolen car has the identity of a wreck from the dump grafted on to it. But now the criminal market has invented a new method of "disappearing" a stolen vehicle — cloning.Car cloninginvolves taking the identity of a legitimate vehicle and putting it on the stolen car.

— Nadia Raafat, "Wheels: Autoparts,"The Guardian, September 26, 1996

bait car

competitive teardown

curbsider

cut and shut

e-fence

phantom accident

reVIN

Cars

Crime