car theft where i live is as rare as snow in houston. if it happens, its in the black part of town (there really is a black part of town, over the railroad tracks) when i first moved here i hated everybody i knew that was racist. im not a racist person at all, i may joke with my colored friends about that kind of stuff, but they joke about whites too.. which its cool with me, if im cool with them.. i know when i was working close to downtown houston at a home depot, i had a expensive alarm put on my mustang (insert mustang hate comment here) even though i do not have any visual mods to make somebody decide to steal it, but i would take my CD dash head unit into work with me, and check outside every 30 mins. and if somebody would even lean on the car it would tell me on my little remote. i am very paranoid about my cars, especially if its in an area im not familiar with. its like, a 2nd Gen integra is really easy to get into.. since the top of the driver/passenger windows are not covered with anything, just a piece of weather strip, its stoopid easy to get inside the car with something. hence, why im going to put a real high dollar alarm on my integra when i get it running.
but why is it they stick to older cars? maybe because usually they dont have alarms on them, easier to get into.. you hardly see somebody steal brand new cars when they are worth way more in general, but difficult because things like on star and lojack, etc.. make it easy to track. people will steal anything these days. i remember reading in the po-dunk town newspaper sometime last month, some redneck incest goofy lookin' MF'er stole a pinto from some kid..they found it a couple days later, completely stripped