Car thieves are settling for older models, finding it's easier to get away with a two-decade old Honda than break into better-protected vehicles made in recent years.

About 100,000 Accords and Civic compact cars were stolen last year, the National Insurance Crime Bureau said in a report Wednesday. Less than 500 of the Accords were 2016 models, compared with about 7,500 from 1997.

"These cars remain popular among thieves because they were some of the last models built without the anti-theft technology that was introduced in the late 1990s," the NICB said in its report.