Use a manual transmission. I had a car that in the previous century (Saab 900Turbo 5spd) was visiting in NYC and found it broken into, scratches around the ignition (also in a weird place in the center floor), but not stolen; clearly they had no clue about operating the gears.
These days I read multiple articles about would-be thieves foiled by manual trans.
It is merely security by obscurity, but it is nevertheless effective.
Nobody that doesn't already know how to drive a manual thans is going to figure it out in the 60 second window, and very few people already know.
Use a manual transmission. I had a car that in the previous century (Saab 900Turbo 5spd) was visiting in NYC and found it broken into, scratches around the ignition (also in a weird place in the center floor), but not stolen; clearly they had no clue about operating the gears.
These days I read multiple articles about would-be thieves foiled by manual trans.
It is merely security by obscurity, but it is nevertheless effective.
Nobody that doesn't already know how to drive a manual thans is going to figure it out in the 60 second window, and very few people already know.