{"id":2025170,"date":"2023-09-07T20:16:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T00:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/car-stealing-tiktok-trend-launches-kia-and-hyundai-into-top-10-most-stolen-cars\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T20:18:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T00:18:30","slug":"car-stealing-tiktok-trend-launches-kia-and-hyundai-into-top-10-most-stolen-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/car-stealing-tiktok-trend-launches-kia-and-hyundai-into-top-10-most-stolen-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Kia and Hyundai soar in car theft rankings due to TikTok trend."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcar-stealing-tiktok-trend-launches-kia-and-hyundai-into-top-10-most-stolen-cars%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2025170&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Rise of Kia\u2062 and Hyundai on \u200bthe Most-Stolen Cars List<\/h2>\n<p>For the first time \u2064ever, the Kia\u200b Optima, Hyundai Sonata,\u200b and Hyundai Elantra have made it onto the top 10 most-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/professors-car-stolen-as-soros-prosecutor-gives-lecture-on-rising-crime\/\" title=\"Professor\u2019s Car Stolen as Soros Prosecutor Gives Lecture on Rising Crime\">stolen cars<\/a> list. According to the National\u2063 Insurance Crime Bureau, the Optima claimed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rachel-maddow-considering-leaving-msnbc-report\/\" title=\"Rachel Maddow Considering Leaving MSNBC: Report\">fourth spot<\/a>, the Sonata came in at sixth, and \u200cthe Elantra secured the \u2063seventh position.\u2063 This is \u200ca \u2063significant achievement for \u200cthese vehicles, considering they have never appeared on the list before.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>TikTok Videos Unveil a Disturbing \u2062Trend<\/h3>\n<p>Recently, \u2062TikTok videos have\u2064 shed light on a concerning trend involving Kia \u200dand Hyundai vehicles. These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-pumped-youtuber-j-p-sears-career-and-he-hasnt-peaked-yet\/\" title=\"Covid Pumped YouTuber J.P. Sears\u2019 Career, And He Hasn\u2019t Peaked Yet\">videos demonstrate<\/a> how thieves \u2064manipulate the steering\u2063 console and ignition of older models (between 2010 \u2063and 2021) to start the car without a key. Unfortunately, this method\u2062 has inspired numerous copycats across \u200cthe country, leading to a surge in car thefts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Los Angeles\u2062 Police Department reported that \u2064Kia and Hyundai vehicles accounted for less than 13% of all car thefts in\u200c the city last year. \u200bHowever, this \u200dyear, they make up almost 20% of the total thefts. Similarly, the St. Petersburg Police Department\u200b has already recorded 222 car thefts this year, with approximately half of\u2062 them involving the TikTok method. The Chicago Police Department has also witnessed a staggering increase in \u200dthefts, \u2063with \u200ba 767% rise compared to \u200dthe same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the alarming rise in thefts, there is some good news. The \u2062recovery\u200c rates \u2062for stolen Hyundais and Kias have been higher than average, ranging between 87% and\u2062 95%. This means that\u2062 there is a greater chance of getting these vehicles back compared to \u200cother stolen cars.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Kia\u200c and Hyundai\u200b Settle Lawsuit, Offering Compensation to Owners<\/h3>\n<p>In response to\u200c the widespread issue, Kia and Hyundai settled a lawsuit by allocating $200 million to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/car-stealing-tiktok-trend-launches-kia-and-hyundai-into-top-10-most-stolen-cars\/\" title=\"Kia and Hyundai soar in car theft rankings due to TikTok trend.\">compensate affected vehicle \u200bowners<\/a>. This settlement covered a total\u200c of 9 million vehicles,\u2062 including 4.5 million Hyundais and 4.5 million Kias. Owners were eligible to receive up to $6,125 \u200dfor\u200b the loss of their\u200d vehicle, \u200cup to $3,375 for damages,\u2062 and \u200cadditional costs \u2062related to insurance and transportation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u200b is important to note that car theft is a nationwide \u2063problem. \u2062In 2022 alone,\u200d over a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-germans-abandoning-their-vehicles-in-protest-of-fuel-price-increases\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show Germans Abandoning Their Vehicles In Protest Of Fuel Price Increases?\">million cars<\/a> were\u2064 stolen across\u200c the\u2064 country. As Kia and Hyundai work to address the vulnerabilities in their vehicles, it is crucial for owners to \u2062remain \u2062vigilant and\u2063 take necessary precautions to protect their cars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read\u200b more from the Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the list, the Honda Civic and Accord remained the most stolen cars. However, the inclusion of the Kia Optima, Hyundai Sonata, and Hyundai Elantra marks their debut in the top 10 rankings of the National Insurance Crime Bureau&#8217;s list of most stolen cars. Optima ranked fourth, Sonata sixth, and Elantra seventh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2025172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2025172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}