{"id":1000434,"date":"2007-03-05T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/economics\/2007\/03\/05\/why-are-old-cars-stolen\/"},"modified":"2007-03-05T09:48:24","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T14:48:24","slug":"why-are-old-cars-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/economics\/2007\/03\/05\/why-are-old-cars-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Old Cars Stolen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statefarm.com\/learning\/be_safe\/road\/learning_besafe_onroad_cartheft1.asp\">State Farm<\/a>, <\/p>\n<blockquote cite='http:\/\/www.statefarm.com\/learning\/be_safe\/road\/learning_besafe_onroad_cartheft1.asp'>\n<p>The <strong>National Insurance Crime Bureau (<\/strong>NICB\u00c2\u00ae) has compiled a list of the 10 vehicles most frequently reported stolen in the U.S. in 2005.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>1991 Honda Accord<\/li>\n<li>1995 Honda Civic<\/li>\n<li>1989 Toyota Camry<\/li>\n<li>1994 Dodge Caravan<\/li>\n<li>1994 Nissan Sentra<\/li>\n<li>1997 Ford F150 Series<\/li>\n<li>1990 Acura Integra<\/li>\n<li>1986 Toyota Pickup<\/li>\n<li>1993 Saturn SL<\/li>\n<li>2004 Dodge Ram Pickup<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t match my expectations at all. With the single exception of the 2004 Dodge Ram Pickup, these are all a decade old or older. Can anyone explain why?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Some possible guesses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More market for parts for older cars. (Newer cars either haven&#8217;t broken down yet, or under warranty and are fixed with OEM replacement parts.)<\/li>\n<li>Older cars have less effective anti-theft systems.<\/li>\n<li>Drivers who want a new car are committing insurance fraud. (The problem with this hypothesis is that insurance companies won&#8217;t even write comprehensive policies on cars with such low Blue Book values.)<\/li>\n<li>More of these cars on the road so they&#8217;re stolen more.<\/li>\n<li>Thieves are more familiar with the systems on these cars.<\/li>\n<li>Drivers don&#8217;t take as much care protecting ten year old cars by locking the doors, putting the Club on, and so forth.<\/li>\n<li>The figures are misreported. This is really the cumulative number of thefts over a lifetime, not the number of thefts in the single year of 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can anyone explain this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to State Farm, The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB\u00c2\u00ae) has compiled a list of the 10 vehicles most frequently reported stolen in the U.S. in 2005. 1991 Honda Accord 1995 Honda Civic 1989 Toyota Camry 1994 Dodge Caravan 1994 Nissan Sentra 1997 Ford F150 Series 1990 Acura Integra 1986 Toyota Pickup 1993 Saturn SL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}