When you purchased your car, you probably selected the colorbecause it would stand out in the parking lot, look cool as youdrove it down the street or wouldn't show dirt if you didn't washit every week. But you probably didn't consider that the color youchose could make it a possible target for thieves.

CCC Information Services used data from its CCC ONE^TMValuation solution to identify the top five vehicle colors that aremost frequently involved in thefts. CCC has a database of morethan 3,700 dealerships across the country and collects itsinformation from a variety of sources.

Interestingly, Dupont (now Axalta) says that their top carcolors for the last decade have been white, black, silver and gray.Let's see how those colors figure into the top 5 most frequentlystolen cars.

Click through the following pages to see the colors, along withsome other facts about auto theft in the U.S.

#5 – Green

CCC doesn't specify in its report if it's lime green, dark greenor some other shade of green, but green is the fifth mostfrequently stolen car color.

According to the FBI, in 2012 a total of 721,053 cars werestolen nationwide, a .6% increase over the previous year. Where youlive also affects your car's chances of being stolen. The westernU.S. saw the largest number of car thefts with 266,707, followed bythe southern states with 250,603.

According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, nine of thetop 10 theft hotspots are in California:

1. Bakersfield, CA
2. Fresno, CA
3. Modesto, CA
4. San Francisco, CA
5. Stockton-Lodi, CA
6. Redding, CA
7. Spokane, WA
8. Vallejo, CA
9. San Jose, CA
10. Yuba City, CA

#4 – Gold

Coming in at number 4 are gold-colored cars. The Honda Accordwas the most frequently stolen car in 2013, but it was also themost frequently recovered.

According to the 2013 LoJack Vehicle Theft Recovery Report, thetop 5 cars stolen and recovered in 2013 were:

1. Honda Accord
2. Honda Civic
3. Toyota Camry
4. Toyota Corolla
5. Chevy Silverado

#3 – Black

According to LoJack Corporation, black model cars were also themost frequently stolen and recovered in 2013. The least commoncolor stolen and recovered? Turquoise.

The good news is that new car technology is making it harder tosteal cars, and if they are stolen the odds of recovery are better.The LoJack Vehicle Theft Recovery Report lists the 5 most stolenand recovered new 2013 models as:

1. Honda Accord
2. Toyota Corolla
3. Ford F250
4. Honda Civic
5. Toyota Tacoma and Ford F150

#2 – White

According to the FBI's 2012 Theft Statistics, a vehicle wasstolen every 44 seconds. In 2012, the FBI says the most frequentlystolen passenger vehicles were:

1. Honda Accord – 58,596
2. Honda Civic – 47,037
3. Ford Pickup (full size) – 26,770
4. Chevrolet Pickup (full size) – 23,745
5. Toyota Camry – 16,251
6. Dodge Caravan – 11,799
7. Dodge Pickup (full size) – 11,755
8. Acura Integra – 9,555
9. Nissan Altima – 9,169
10. Nissan Maxima – 6,947

#1 – Silver

There were more than $4.3 billion lost in motor vehicle theftsin 2012 according to the FBI. The average loss was $6,019.Fortunately, more than half of locally stolen vehicles wererecovered.

The states with the fewest motor vehicle thefts in 2012were:

1. Vermont
2. Wyoming
3. Maine
4. New Hampshire
5. South Dakota
6. North Dakota
7. Idaho
8. Delaware
9. Alaska
10. Montana