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If the victim is willing to sell the car and you just insist on being a dick who steals it, then sends a lawyer to buy it and bribe them not to press charges, maybe about two or three times the cost of the car to spare should do.

If they won't sell it, congrats, cost goes up exponentially, involving hitmen, covering your tracks, paying their estate off and/or bribing officials. Easilly a Hundred grand or so, plus the value of the car.

If you insist on a form of theft that never makes the victim "whole" in some manner, and still want to be able to drive the thing around, you're chopshopping the VIN, stealing plates, smuggling it out of the country(likely involving a boat large enough to transport it, and/or a semi), and at least one illegal border crossing.

TL;DR: Stealing a car with the intention of "getting away with it" via money would almost always cost exponentially more than buying the car.