Abstract: A steering wheel gripper for preventing unauthorized steering of a motor vehicle, generally including and a flexible, multi-link member circumscribing the rim of a steering wheel along substantially the entire perimeter of the rim, formed of separate hollow links having an arcuate cross-section corresponding to the rim cross-section, made of a rigid, hard-to-sever material and pivotally connected in series to one another and, an elongate member fixedly connected to a middle link tangentially thereto and extending in the longitudinal direction of the middle link.