Yeah, I go back and forth between all the photos and this is it 100%!!! Or a Buick Lesabre due to the brake lights. I’m not really sure. Its probably a later model closer to 2005. I just heard one of the Ipad’s he stole had an LTE ping, so they got a potential location and now we have all the video and thanks to you mate, a car make and model. Thank you everyone who contributed. I’ll be asking you guys questions about my old beater pickup I plan on fixing 
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It is too short to be a LeSabre.
Yeah, it kinda does look like the Buick as well. Either way it is probably some GM model from 15-20 years ago.
So, is the owner happy it’s gone? 
Or, maybe he is glad that it doesn’t have any of the eeevil electronic features of modern vehicles.
If it’s a Regal or Century around 1998 it has power windows!
O… M… G!
Surely, this is the work of The Devil.
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Another idea, Google has an image-search feature that will compare your photo to photos all around the internet for matches. Surf to Google-Images, then click on the “hover over” icon that says “search by image”.
I found a match: it is a utility trailer.
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I love all the humor! Now that I look again, is it possible it’s a Chevy Impala? What you think?
Nope, rear roof post is wrong. I’m pretty sure it’s a Buick.
So,I have to ask, did you perform your suggested search? How’d it go? I’ve used this before and if a photo has been published before or the photo is similar to one on the web, Google can find a match… But as has been noted, that vehicle looks a lot like a bunch of different cars. And perhaps the worse part of this is the photo is not a good quality and we’ve had to alter the photo to account for the skewed aspect ratio…
I did do the reverse google image search. Honestly its pretty impressive for a good potential models, but yeah its a really bad photo. I think Nevada_545 got it right. I can’t thank you guys enough! You did amazingly well with how crappy those photos were. I just looked again and you’re right, its not a chevy impala. Century it is.
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My advice would be to move on or maybe get a group together for surveillance and the call it in to the police. About 1973 I spotted a light blue 53 Chevy at the scene of what turned out to be a crime. Even found it parked at a house. Not many light blue 53 chevies in our little town. While the police interviewed the folks, there was not much they could do without an admission or finding goods at their house.
I understand you are upset, but a different car will be stolen tomorrow. You need a team to catch/
Them in the act.
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I just wanted to add that the idea of someone using a rare and distinctive car such as a Dodge Shadow/Plymouth Sundance or Toyota Echo to commit a crime is just about the dumbest thing I have heard, though obviously there are a lot of dumb criminals out there. Heck, I remember at the height of the COVID pandemic, when you could literally walk into any business wearing a full face covering, and no one would bat an eye, just about every night in the news, I’d see surveillance camera footage of people robbing banks, gas stations, and other similar businesses without taking the rudimentary step of wearing a mask and gloves!
Any semi-intelligent person looking to commit a crime would understand the fact that shielding their face from surveillance cameras and driving a very common, nondescript car are two of the most important steps needed to evade detection.
There was a time when both the Sundance/Shadow, and Echo were common cars, easily able to disappear into the crowd, but those days are over. Also, the newest of these models are over 20 years old now, which means that significant effort and investment is required to keep such a car on the road. People who are poor enough and desperate enough to rob businesses, steal packages, shoplift, etc, are generally not going to spend thousands of dollars to keep an old car running.
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Hey, you 've got that right. How many times have you read about some crooks using their truck to commit a Smash and Grab and smash through the front of a business and in their haste, to get away they leave their bumper with license plate at the scene? Or the bank robber who stands in line at the teller’s window holding their wallet to look discrete and leave their wallet on the counter when they leave or the bank robber who writes the note on an envelope with their address on it? Or the gangbanger who stuffs their pistol in their belt and as they pull the gun out, they shoot themselves in the groin? And perhaps the dumbest of all dumb criminal who take videos of their crimes and then post them on line?
No, most criminal are not smart. If they were, they would not be putting their life on the line to steal some items that really are worth very little, sure that iPhone cost $1,000 new, but a used, stolen, and maybe even locked, is worth only a few dollars…
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I’ve told this before but a guy was selling drugs here at the truck stop. One of the customers robbed him so he called the police. They investigated and arrested him. He didn’t get his money back but that’s as far as I followed the story. About the same time as the guy walked out of wal mart with a big screen tv through the back door and had it working fine at his trailer. Or the guy that robbed the jewelry store of all the fake glass diamonds. But since even fake diamonds are expensive, got charged with a felony. Gotta love our local police.
The Sundance and Shadow were never common, compared to the multitudes of Civics and Corollas, afaik
I live in Los Angeles
I haven’t even seen a Sundance or Shadow in the junkyard in years, probably 10 years
That should give you an idea how exceedingly rare they are these days
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I still see a few Echo’s on the road in my area, even an occasional Tercel.
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Yes, on rare occasions, I still see those cars. It has been quite a few years since I have seen any of those old Sundance/Shadow cars.