Excerpted from The Boston Guardian

(New England Diary’s editor, Robert Whitcomb, is chairman of The Boston Guardian.)

Boston’s car thieves are setting themselves apart from the rest of the country with their preferred targets, going after Hondas and the traditionally targeted pickups while their peers shift to Hyundais and Kias.

Data from the Boston Police Department shows Honda as Boston’s highest-risk car brand, with 113 Hondas stolen since the beginning of 2024.

Almost half of those have been Honda Accords, far and away the most popular target for car thieves at 47 thefts. The second highest make at 26 thefts was still a Honda, the Honda CR-V.

That’s a marked departure from national trends, where data from the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) suggests full size pickups have been almost kicked off the 2023 leaderboards in the scramble for cars from Hyundai and Kia.

Viral social media posts showing security flaws in those brands saw crimes involving them skyrocket 10,000 percent since 2020. Hyundai Elantras and Sonatas took first and second place respectively, followed by the Kia Optima.

Here’s the whole article.