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Toyota, Honda top most-stolen vehicle list
DETROIT. Mar 1. Test driven a Toyota Camry or Honda Accord lately? America's car thieves have, and they're big fans.
Those two models dominate the most-stolen vehicle list for 1999. with 19 of the top 25 spots, as they have in years past. The 1989 Toyota Camry kepi its ranking as the most-stolen vehicle for the third year in a row. followed by the "90? '91 and '88 Camrys.
The only other vehicle to break into the top 10 was the 1997 Ford F 150 4x2 pickup — part of a growing appetite for pickups among vehicle poach-
Bui owners of all makes and
models have something to cheer: Cases oi major vehicle theft dropped 15 per cent last year, according to data from CCC Information Services Inc., which tracks trends in theft and other vehicle damage claims for the Insurance industry.
CCC spokeswoman Jeanene O'Brien said the drop Is part of a trend toward fewer (hefts that began in 1995. and can be attributed to a booming US economy. where fewer people are driven to auto theft as a vocation.
The CCC's annual list, lo be released Wednesday, counted 14 different models of Honda Ac cords among the top 25 vehicles.
Why do sedate family sedans like the Camry and Accord pepper the lop of the list? The simple answer is that there's a great demand for their spare parts: They have been lop sellers for years and can be driven for hundreds of thousand of miles. The Camry and Accord lend to change little from year to year, making more parls interchangeable between model
And the Camry a.id Accord, models held their value better than their competitors, meaning fewer ended up in Junkyards and more were still on the street.
Toyota and Honda don't take any pride in their rankings.
saying it’s more a refiectio i of how the study measures car theft. CCC's ranking is based only on stolen vehicles that were never recovered or were stripped to the point that they were a total loss. It does not include temporary "Joy ride" thefts.
The study is skewed for cars that last a long time," said Toyota spokesman John McCandless. "Il means our cars are in high demand, but It also means that our units in operation keep on growing every year."
Art Garner, a spokesman for Honda, said the Accord would be in the middle of the pack if the rankings were weighted to show the proportion of stolen
cars to total sales of that model. He also said the company expected Its theft rate to decline thanks to a system installed on all Accords from the 1998 model year on. The system keeps the car from starling unless it senses a computer chip embedded on the car's keys.
But Gamer and McCandless said whatever steps automakers take to reduce theft, thieves will find a way around them with some practice and time.
There’s a lot more technology in a 2000 Camry then there was 10 years ago. but if they do the study 10 years from now. the Camry will still be on the list." McCandless said.