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Dorion’s 2015 Kia Optima was stolen overnight Feb. 16 outside of his home near 31st Street South and Seneca. A 19-year-old Wichita man was arrested driving the car at 3 p.m. three days later.
Kia Challenge. The Kia Challenge is a viral TikTok trend to which a series of motor vehicle thefts is attributed, targeting Kia and Hyundai vehicles in the United States manufactured between 2011 and 2021. The trend, which began in October 2022, has led to eight fatalities, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Certain Hyundai and Kia models saw a 10-fold increase in thefts in just the past three years, a wildly dramatic increase in the wake of a series of social media posts showing people how to steal ...
In September, the Highway Loss Data Institute, a unit of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, found that Hyundai and Kia cars without immobilizers had a vehicle theft claim rate of 2.18 per ...
A car with one of its windows broken. Motor vehicle theft or car theft (also known as a grand theft auto in the United States) is the criminal act of stealing or attempting to steal a motor vehicle. In 2020, there were 810,400 vehicles reported stolen in the United States, up from 724,872 in 2019. [1] Property losses due to motor vehicle theft ...
Kia entered the MPV market in 1999 with the Sedona. On its launch, it was the lowest-priced, full-size people carrier on sale in the United Kingdom. With the range expanded by 1999, sales for that year reached almost 6,400 – more than double the previous year's total.
GMC pick-up truck (full size) 2005. 16,622. 10. Honda CRV. 2001. 13,832. This is the condition a stolen Kia was left in after being taken in Wauwatosa. Many vehicle thieves ditch the cars after ...
Lexington joins a growing number of cities that have sued the automakers over a lack of anti-theft features and a boom in stolen vehicles. ... the rate of theft for Kias and Hyundais has ...