Boston’s car thieves are setting themselves apart from the rest of the country with their preferred targets, going after Hondas and the traditionally targeted pickups while their peers shift to Hyundais and Kias.

Data from the Boston Police Department shows Honda as Boston’s highest-risk car brand, with 113 Hondas stolen since the beginning of 2024.

Almost half of those have been Honda Accords, far and away the most popular target for car thieves at 47 thefts. The second highest make at 26 thefts was still a Honda, the Honda CR-V.

That’s a marked departure from national trends, where data from the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) suggests full size pickups have been almost kicked off the 2023 leaderboards in the scramble for cars from Hyundai and Kia.

Viral social media posts showing security flaws in those brands saw crimes involving them skyrocket 10,000% since 2020. Hyundai Elantras and Sonatas took first and second place respectively, followed by the Kia Optima.

Pickups didn’t make the list until the Chevrolet Silverado in fourth and made up only two of the top ten spots.

Here in Boston, however, car thieves aren’t so quick to change their ways. Toyotas have been the second most stolen cars this year with 91 thefts. Ford took third at 49, beating out both Hyundai and Kia by three thefts.

Compared to the rest of the country, Boston is remarkably safe when it comes to car thefts. While Massachusetts got fifth place in the growth of its car theft totals during the post-pandemic surge with a 16% increase, that’s well behind Maryland’s 63% and Washington, D.C.’s 64%.

Boston doesn’t show up at all in the top 10 metro areas by total thefts. Thus far in 2024 the city has seen just over 600 car thefts, almost nothing compared to L.A.’s 72,000 thefts or San Francisco’s 40,000 last year.

That’s not to say Boston’s car thieves don’t have any claims to fame when competing with other metro areas. Tucked away at the bottom of the year’s model theft rankings are both Freightliner and Shuttle Bus, suggesting at some point this year enterprising thieves made off with both a freight truck and one of the city’s buses.

Bostonians concerned about their car can still take preventative measures. Theft can be discouraged by keeping valuables out of sight, checking whether your car model has any well-known security flaws, installing a tracking device in your car and immediately reporting any thefts to the police.