Car Thieves Love Hondas From the 90's
- ‘Garden-variety knucklehead’ thieves baffled by new technology
- About 100,000 Accords, Civics stolen in 2016, NICB says
A Honda Accord in 1994.
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Car thieves are settling for older models, finding it’s easier to get away with a two-decade old Honda than break into better-protected vehicles made in recent years.
About 100,000 Accords and Civic compact cars were stolen last year, the National Insurance Crime Bureau said in a report Wednesday. Less than 500 of the Accords were 2016 models, compared with about 7,500 from 1997.