The Kia Challenge explained:
The Free Market US did not mandate immobilizers be installed in every vehicle as the rest of the west did more than a decade ago. (Regulations stifle markets and all that.)
In a cost cutting measure Hyundai USA removes the immobilizers from low end US only models.
The ease of theft goes viral.
Millions of dollars in damage to save $50 dollars per vehicle.
The US free market in action.