http://www.nicb.org/services/top_sto...0vehicles.html

Looks like the Integra dropped in placing quite a bit.

 

Hrm, i could be wrong, but that list looks like it's looing at overall theft #'s, not theft per capita like the other one was looking at. It'd make sense that the camry and all those other cars got stolen more b/c there are a ton more of those cars on the road than integras.

 

BECAUSE THERE AREN'T ANY LEFT TO STEAL!!!

 

they look like 2001 figures too. NOt more recent.

 

They should calcute the production #'s of Type R's then and then calculate that with how many of those are stolen. That would be #1.

 

You mean % stolen? That would put the R (and integras in general) much higher on the list.

 

When they gave the Integra the most stolen vehicle award, it was based on proption to the amount existing .............

Obviously the Accord and Camry are the highest total amount, there are hundreds of thousands sold each year ...........

 

i agree, if percentages were looked at instead of raw numbers, the itr's would be at the top. Most likely a 40-50% stolen rate. Don't forget to count the R's that have been lifted more than once.

 

The Integra didn't drop down on the list. This is the overall theft rating for automobiles that is talked about in the recent article....Think of it this way,

The list linked to in theis thread describes:
Cars stolen from the general population of ALL cars in the US

Where the list that shows the Integra on the top is:
Cars stolen from a population of cars of similar make and model.

The fact that the Camry and Accord are the most stolen cars is understandable. They account for like 20 % of all cars on the road. So even if a thief chose his next car to steal in a completely random fashion, he would pick a Camry or Accord 20% of the time.

Cheese~

 

My bad, I must have read it wrong. I thought that this was a revised listing of the same list that was floating around a few months ago. Sorry.

 

You are exactly correct. There are two numbers floating around. One is the most stolen cars. This collection method doesn't take into effect number of existing cars for each type. Basically they just take all the cars reported stolen and say, 100 were accords, 35 were Integras, 70 were Jeeps, etc... Then they come up with a percentange for each car type stolen from the pool of stolen cars for that year.

The other number, the one were the Integra is listed as most likely to get stolen, takes into effect the number of cars in existance. This is not a perfect number, as they assume cars "exist" if they are insured, and we all know there are plenty of uninsured motorists out there. I've been hit by three of them. Anyway, they take the number stolen, and the number in existance of a given model, then they say, of the number in existance, this many were stolen, giving us this ratio. Then they compare ratios from models to figure out which one is most likely to get stolen.

Unfortunatly, I own a Honda Accord, and a Integra Type R. So my insurance company likes to give it to me long, hard and dry. I've yet to see what my latest purchace (2003 TL-S) is going to do.


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