Cali does it big again....

10 out fo 20 cities in the list is from California...

http://autos.yahoo.com/news/auto-the...olen-cars.html

 

9. San Francisco-Oakland, Calif.
18. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif.

 

surprised to see so many areas in northern part of ca

 

I'm glad I don't near any of those cities. I would hate for one of my cars to get stolen.

 

Glad there wasn't any near LA or SoCal (Bakersfield doesn't count!!! )

 

How are they basing the rankings? I don't see any definition for comparison. They just say "worst", but what defines worst?

 

um.....I would think its the number of cars stolen

 

Doubtful. Probably a ratio of registered vehicles to thefts. I don't know about most of those areas but Yakima, WA is a tiny city. There might not be as many cars in Yakima as there are stolen in NYC. It HAS to be some sort of ratio.

 

I know. I was just playing around.

I will admit I am surprised that Phoenix is not on the list. We are so close to Mexico. Like San Diego we have a big problem with cars getting stolen and ending up in mexico. I actually saw a report on the news where they put a tracking device in a loaded Chevy Tahoe. When they followed the signal 4 weeks later they found that the chief of police in a little Mexican border town was actually driving the stolen car

 

I mean, they talk about professional car thiefs, but I'm betting a lot of those numbers are just from people messing around and breaking into other cars to joy ride. I know quite a few friends in ESSJ (east side san jose) who've had their car stolen, and then found again a couple blocks down the road. Nothing missing, no vandalism, or anything. Seems like the the thieves just took the car, drove it around for a bit, then ditched it on the side of the road. One time I think they push started my friend's Del Sol when it was parked on a hill, ended up stalling and hitting the curb at the bottom of the hill, and just left it there.

I'm just saying, I've never heard of an incident where a car got stolen and never turned up again. What is this talk about shipping the car out to Asia? I'm sure there's professional thieves out there, but the article makes it sound like it's commonplace.

 

Surprising Newark and/or Jersey City aren't on the list.

 

I'm surprised Riverside, CA isn't on the list. I've heard SO many stories over the last 5 years about cars being stolen around here. MOST of them are recovered as shells. It's kinda scary, around here they just jack up your car a bit and load it on a flat bed and are off with it. Most cars don't have tilt sensors so it never even triggers the alarm. Almost happened to me once too, thank god for 2 way alarm systems and tilt sensors!

The Inland Empire is notorious for stolen Honda's. So many get stolen here, i was constantly worried about it when i had my Prelude =/

 

Yea im suprised Newark, Jersey City, Philly, or NY wasn't listed haha. Specially Newark!!

 

san diego is on the list.

 

if oakland weren't included then sf wouldn't have ranked so poorly. oakland took sf down with it.