The National Insurance Crime Bureau has released a list of the most frequently stolen cars of 2010. For the first time since 2002, the list includes more vehicles from Detroit, Michigan than from outside of the United States. Is the vehicle you drive on this list?
The National Insurance Crime Bureau, or NICB, is a non-profit organization. It receives information from around 1,000 property/ casualty insurance companies. It also has partnered with insurers and law enforcement agencies in order to detect and prosecute insurance criminals. In other words, this group is independent, and is not employed by any insurance agency, or any manufacturers of vehicles.
The NICB has compiled a list of the most stolen vehicles for 2010. The list was compiled from nationwide data. This means that individual states could have a somewhat different result if the data was calculated that way. The NICB has a breakdown of state by state data on their website if you happen to want to check that out.
At the top of the list is the 1994 Honda Accord. Number two is the 1995 Honda Civic, and number three is the 1991 Toyota Camry. The 1999 Chevrolet Pickup, (full size), and the 1997 Ford F150 Series/Pickup round out the top five of the list.
Number six on the list is the 2004 Dodge Ram, which is followed by the 2000 Dodge Caravan. Rounding out the top ten are the 1994 Acura Integra, the 2002 Ford Explorer, and the 1999 Ford Taurus. Personally, I am a bit surprised that none of the vehicles that thieves went after the most are models from 2009 or 2010, the newest version of the vehicles at the time the data for this report was collected.
The top three vehicles on the list were Japanese cars. Since 2002, Japanese cars have appeared at the top of the list of the most stolen vehicles. Ford had three of it’s vehicles appear on the list, Dodge had two, and Chevrolet had one. This is the first time since 2002 that there are more vehicles from Detroit, Michigan, on the list than imported vehicles.
Overall, the NICB finds that car and truck thefts are on the decline. 2010 had the fewest reported vehicle thefts since 1967. This is attributed to the improvements in technology that make it harder for thieves to steal your car. Now that I think about it, I suppose that explains why the newest vehicles were not on the list.
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