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Old Nov 9, 2011 | 02:56 PM
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Was going through Yahoo! and found the page.
Cars with the highest theft rates
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Old Nov 9, 2011 | 06:15 PM
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The S2000 is not a high theft vehicle. The MY09 only had 357 cars produced of which 2 were stolen so yes when you do the math it looks like a high theft rate (2 cars stolen divided by 357 produced times a 1000 theoretical vehicles on the road equals 5.6). If you add up all of the model years produced and all of the thefts of each model year as a total it works out to about 2 of 1000 S2K's (of all model years) are stolen which is far below most other cars. Im no mathlete so please interject if Im missing something here.
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Old Nov 13, 2011 | 08:04 AM
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I feel better now, I think.
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Old Nov 13, 2011 | 09:12 AM
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Or maybe go hardtop for more security? LOL
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Old Nov 13, 2011 | 11:46 AM
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good info.
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Old Nov 13, 2011 | 12:03 PM
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Two years ago I was robbed at gunpoint and tied up in my own home. They took my keys and tried stealing the S but honest to God, they guy came back in after 10 minutes and said he couldn't figure out how to start the damn thing. So they left it. Lucky for the Start button sometimes I guess...
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Old Nov 13, 2011 | 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by kimimila
It gets real scary when you do the math - assuming there are 30,000 S's left in the U.S. - 5.6 per thousand equals 168 S2000s are stolen each year - yikes!
I dont think that is all that scary... If there are millions of cars and THOUSANDS of civics get stolen
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Old Nov 14, 2011 | 09:39 AM
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Originally Posted by kimimila
but never have made the "Most Stolen" car lists.
You must be new here.
http://www.autoinsurancetips.com/ame...st-stolen-cars
http://autozonews.wordpress.com/2011...d-states-2009/
https://www.s2ki.com/s2000/topic/685...olen-vehicles/

http://www.crimepreventiontips.org/s...-vehicles.html
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Old Nov 14, 2011 | 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by ian02s2k
Two years ago I was robbed at gunpoint and tied up in my own home. They took my keys and tried stealing the S but honest to God, they guy came back in after 10 minutes and said he couldn't figure out how to start the damn thing. So they left it. Lucky for the Start button sometimes I guess...
Wow. What were they after? If someone had broken into my house with a gun while I was home they only thing being tied up would be their body bags.
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