Vehicles worth a total of £4,791,995 were recovered in April under the Finance & Leasing Association Vehicle Recovery Scheme, almost double the value of April the previous year.

Although the value of total recoveries dropped 6.5% from March this year, the figure continues at its elevated level since the Metropolitan Police Service joined the scheme, which is run in conjunction with the ACPO Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service and HPI CrushWatch.

The number of enquiries made to the scheme totalled 6,770 for the month, the fourth-highest ever, with 748 enquiries finding vehicles with outstanding finance, again, the fourth-highest total on record.

Ford was the most-recovered brand for the month, with 125 vehicles, for the first time since September 2012. For the second month in a row, the Focus was the most recovered model.

The most valuable single recovery for the month was an Audi R8, worth £54,700, a third time for the make and model, although the top 10 most-valuable recoveries included five Mercedes-Benz models worth a total of £194,600.

richard.brown@timetric.com

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