The 10 Vehicles Most Likely To Get Stolen In The Us

There's nary shortage of "these are nan astir stolen cars" articles, and they're usually grounded successful investigation by nan National Insurance Crime Bureau. The problem pinch these lists is that nan NICB is looking astatine aggregate theft information (that is, how galore of each exemplary are stolen crossed nan state successful a year). There are surely trends to observe — nan statement has been keeping an oculus connected nan Hyundai/Kia business for years — but while a conveyance could apical nan database by being a laughably stealable information risk, it tin besides get location by being a Honda Accord, which took nan No. 2 spot (between 2 Hyundais) connected nan NICB database successful 2025 contempt having nary wide recognized information vulnerabilities. There are conscionable a full batch of Accords retired there, truthful a full batch of Accords get stolen.

A caller study from nan Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI), published via nan Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), flips that book by measuring thefts comparative to really galore of each conveyance really exist. The consequence is simply a look astatine conveyance thefts done a full caller lens, pinch nan apical 10 including fewer of nan perennial "hottest car" database favorites. There are nary hilariously susceptible Kias aliases Hyundais, nary relentlessly communal Hondas aliases Toyotas, and not a punchline of an Altima to beryllium found. So beryllium back, scan your artifact for nefarious car thieves, and find retired if it's clip to bargain The Club for your ride.

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This is conscionable nan 10th astir stolen conveyance connected nan list, but we're going to constituent retired a inclination that will popular up a fewer times earlier we're done. Four-wheel-drive unit cab pickups are successful danger. 

The combustion-powered Ram 1500 is amazingly complicated, pinch its various drivetrain and cab configurations dispersed retired complete 10 trim packages, from nan humble Tradesman to nan illustrious Tungsten, which carries an $88,800 suggested value earlier options and $2,595 destination charge. We bring that up conscionable to constituent retired that modern workhorse pickup trucks tin besides transportation borderline luxury energy, pinch value tags to match. The infotainment screens unsocial person proven irresistible to thieves, and while that doesn't lend to nan theft totals we're discussing today, it does show that nan bad guys person an oculus connected nan Rams.

They besides person nan cardinal fobs. Or astatine slightest clones of them. Like nan compromised Mercedes cars successful "Gone successful 60 Seconds," successful caller years hundreds of vehicles crossed aggregate states person been boosted by a fistful of criminals who managed to make their ain copies of Dodge fobs, including those of nan Ram 1500. To adhd reproach to injury, they past dumped their ill-gotten autos connected nan illicit marketplace for arsenic debased arsenic $3,500. Anyway, earlier we move on, here's really to protect yourself from keyless car theft.

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First of all, arsenic portion of our ongoing nationalist work acquisition work, we'll constituent retired that Range Rover is simply a subbrand of Land Rover, which is simply a subbrand of Tata motors. It's a small confusing, but basal if you want to accurately constituent fingers astir an ongoing information vulnerability that near its $100,000-plus luxury SUVs susceptible to being stolen aft having their cardinal fob signals intercepted complete nan air. The consequence was a $20-million effort announced successful 2023 to rotation retired package updates and activity pinch affected owners to get them installed.

But here's nan thing. That full messiness was constricted to vehicles manufactured betwixt 2018 and 2022, pinch nan problem resolved nether a caller physics architecture successful spot since. So while nary shaper wants to show up connected a database for illustration this, it astir apt stung particularly successful nan lawsuit of Land Rover. We mean Range Rover. No, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), wholly owned subsidiary of nan Tata Group. That's because nan exemplary years that showed up successful nan new HLDI information ran from '22 to '24, firmly successful what Land Rover calls its "resilient to theft" era. Better luck adjacent year?

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As Durango Hellcat owners suffer their suit complete their "limited edition" conveyance investments, we've benignant of formally adjudicated that treating your Durango arsenic a collector's point isn't a awesome idea. But that doesn't mean it isn't an charismatic theft target. 

Matt Moore, main security operations serviceman astatine HLDI and IIHS, points retired that "Muscle cars person often topped this list, arsenic thieves are attracted to vehicles pinch precocious horsepower." And while possibly car thieves are scoping up Durangos because of awesome towing capacity and pleasantly astonishing infotainment system, it's besides imaginable that it has to do pinch nan Durango being what Car & Driver describes arsenic "the closest point to a three-row musculus car," moreover if you don't opt for nan definitively-not-collectible Hellcat edition.

Oh, it doesn't really thief that you tin cautiously region nan windshield from nan extracurricular and past programme a caller cardinal fob connected nan spot, arsenic immoderate folks successful Pennsylvania discovered erstwhile they came extracurricular to their Durangoless windshield lying thoughtfully (and unhelpfully) connected nan ground. As further grounds of cardinal fob vulnerabilities, a mates of guys successful Michigan are accused of stealing much than 25 Durangos correct disconnected of dealership lots. Evidently, nan criminal underbelly yearns for a powerful three-row SUV.

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See? We told you 4WD unit cabs weren't safe. The Chevrolet Silverado HD is built to tow and haul, but that won't do you overmuch bully if you travel extracurricular to an quiet parking spot (or two; we spot really immoderate of you animals parkland these things). While it's imaginable this is simply much grounds of highly tin heavy-duty American trucks getting plucked for their utility, there's besides immoderate grounds that General Motors has a cardinal fob rumor of its own, pinch a full bunch of Silverados and (spoiler alert for nan adjacent introduction connected our list) GMC Sierras ending up stolen and headed to Mexico utilizing physics information compromises akin to nan ones that person travel up already.

Vulnerabilities aside, nan 3500 Crew Cab 4WD compares good to nan much entry-level Ram we began pinch above. This is simply a superior activity motortruck and thieves are apparently going rather heavy into nan much tin extremity of Chevy's lineup — these commencement astatine $53,595 plus $2,795 destination charge, and tin easy transcend $75,000 earlier options pinch nan High Country variant. 

When it comes to nan cardinal fob attacks, there's presumably not overmuch different successful position of effort erstwhile you jump from nan guidelines exemplary Silverado to thing for illustration this, truthful possibly it's not that surprising, but it's still a small nosy to deliberation astir nan apparently plausible script of immoderate black-market motortruck purchaser weighing really overmuch other he's consenting to salary for 1 pinch nan Duramax 6.6 that tin tow 36,000 pounds (of further stolen merchandise, perhaps?).

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If you really cognize what you're doing, you tin locomotion up to a GMC Sierra 3500, disable nan horn done nan grill (and frankincense termination nan siren noise), and make disconnected pinch nan motortruck successful nether 3 minutes. That's conscionable 1 super-specific illustration of a wider inclination successful GMC motortruck thefts, and it wouldn't beryllium a crazy leap to presume there's immoderate overlap pinch nan physics vulnerabilities already established nether nan General Motors umbrella pinch nan Chevys discussed already.

From a GM marque standpoint, it's possibly worthy an soul PowerPoint descent location that nan Sierra 3500 and nan Silverado 3500 — merchandise portfolio siblings pinch fundamentally identical underpinnings — landed correct adjacent to each different successful nan HLDI data. Perhaps astatine nan extremity of nan time group really aren't that discriminating erstwhile it comes to what badge you slap connected nan front, astatine slightest not if you're conscionable hustling retired of nan suburbs and crossed nan confederate border. Anyway, did we mention that a type of nan GMC Sierra 3500 HD now starts astatine complete $100,000?

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We don't really cognize what to opportunity astir this one. Acura killed nan TLX aft only trading 7,478 of them successful 2024 and apparently a bully chunk of them were stolen anyway. Together pinch nan moreover higher-ranking 4WD TLX, you'll announcement that nan Acura is nan only sedan connected today's list. Even if you zoom retired to nan apical 20, you'll still only find 1 other, nan Mercedes-Benz S-Class (long wheelbase) down successful nan 18th spot — and still pinch nan caveat that we're talking astir comparative theft frequency. A long-wheelbase S-Class isn't precisely a Ford F-150 successful position of income volume.

Anyway, location doesn't look to beryllium an obvious, wide documented smoking-gun down TLX theft rates. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration previously exempted it from national parts-marking requirements aft concluding its modular immobilizer-based anti-theft strategy was apt to beryllium effective. But location isn't a circumstantial vulnerability stemming from that, truthful your conjecture is astir apt arsenic bully arsenic anybody's.

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This is, mercifully, nan past of nan pickups connected this list. Even though nan different GM variants we've already discussed stock nan aforesaid vulnerabilities and yet nan aforesaid fate, this is nan exemplary that made nan biggest media splash in nan "they're comin' for your pickups" genre of section news. That said, expensive, work-focused trucks surely look to stay highly desirable successful illicit markets.

Like its smaller sibling, nan 1500, you tin push these rather precocious successful position of suggested value pinch nan disposable Denali packages, isolated from successful this lawsuit nan Denali Ultimate tin get you each nan measurement up to $94,200 earlier options and $2,795 destination charge.

But for those of you who bask immoderate rampant speculation to spell pinch their data-driven actuarial study of security data, we'll astatine slightest effort to oblige. Based strictly connected nan information set, the off-roading GMC Sierra 2500 HD AT4X falls nether nan "GMC Sierra 2500 Crew Cab 4WD" umbrella, meaning that we can't opportunity that these theft numbers aren't driven purely by nan enthusiasm of nefarious characters who simply admit nan awesome capacity of 1 of nan coolest all-terrain trucks you tin bargain from nan factory. So possibly it's that? (It's astir apt not that.)

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Finally! We were getting a small disappointment pinch that HLDI feline we quoted backmost successful nan Durango section, who promised musculus cars earlier providing thing but pickup trucks and an Acura sedan ever since — until now. The (since discontinued) Chevy Camaro marks a displacement into capacity territory, pinch a look and consciousness yet worthy of Grand Theft Auto opening nan doorway to, good ... expansive theft auto.

So why a Camaro and not a Mustang, aliases possibly 1 of those Challengers pinch nan articulator defender still connected nan beforehand splitter? It's that cardinal fob vulnerability again. GM issued a callback (sorry, we mean "customer restitution program") connected this one, offering a assemblage power module update aft immoderate areas reported Camaro thefts spiking much than 1,000%, straight attributable to cardinal fob cloning, sometimes perpetrated by literal children. 

Except this time, alternatively of snatching signals retired of nan aerial aliases gaining entree to an existent fob, thieves are managing to propulsion cardinal codes straight from nan OBD-II port, taking advantage of a diagnostic interface that really astir apt shouldn't see entree to that benignant of thing. So since we're not judge if nan Camaro will ever travel back arsenic a Chevy offering, you mightiness want to spell retired of your measurement to support yours safe if you person one.

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You didn't suffer your place. It's a somewhat different TLX. The Acura TLX 4WD has doubled up Acura adjacent nan apical of our database here, and it's frankly benignant of annoying that nan HLDI made this favoritism betwixt nan 2 drivetrains. There are nary evident information exploits aliases physics vulnerabilities that use to nan 4WD arsenic compared to nan 2WD and really nan communicative present is that group want these Acura sedans severely capable to bargain them, yet not capable to acquisition them successful capable volumes to support them successful nan lineup. All that said, we did put immoderate thought into what mightiness beryllium astatine slightest a contributing facet for what's going connected present and didn't travel up wholly empty-handed.

This introduction successful nan information would see nan Type S. The Acura TLX Type S is simply a different benignant of AWD athletics sedan. It has capacity that's Machines With Souls compared to "a four-door NSX," and if that doesn't astatine slightest put it into nan sports car speech pinch a guidelines exemplary Camaro, we're not judge what does. 

But importantly, each Type S is all-wheel drive, meaning that if (big, large if, to beryllium clear) would-be car thieves are looking for a high-performance bully time, possibly pinch immoderate legendary Japanese reliability, past they mightiness opt for a TLX Type S, and successful doing truthful boost nan theft complaint reflected successful nan "Acura TLX 4WD" data. It's a theory, anyway. Call america adjacent clip you want to excavation into nan communicative down nan story, HLDI.

(Boss euphony plays.) Putting a satisfying front connected this full data-driven exercise, it's nan Camaro ZL1. It's precisely nan benignant of conveyance that gets overlooked successful nan accustomed "most stolen cars" lists because location simply aren't that galore of them, and frankly it's a small spot nosy to ideate Nicolas Cage doing a "Gone successful 60 Seconds" reboot that includes tearing disconnected successful a 650-horsepower supercharged V8 leader car pinch a manual transmission for those speedy cinematic shots from wrong nan pedal box.

The ZL1 has each of nan aforesaid information vulnerabilities arsenic nan guidelines exemplary Camaro we covered earlier, positive nan fierce looks and exceptional capacity that make it an icon worthy of risking jailhouse time. Taken together, nan consequence is that the Chevy Camaro ZL1 is 39 times much apt to beryllium stolen than nan mean car and gaps nan title successful taking its spot astatine nan apical of this list. Well done, Chevy. If only you'd support making 'em.