Ursus americanus: 'You got a pick-a-nick basket in that minivan?'

The press release says, "Yosemite black bears select minivan as 'Car of the Year'":

An article in the October 2009 issue of the Journal of Mammalogy examines the number of vehicles, by make and model, that black bears broke into from 2001 to 2007 in California's Yosemite National Park. In all years, minivans had the largest or second largest number of break-ins by bears.

Based on a survey of the types of vehicles visitors to the park drive, it was found that "only minivans were broken into at a rate higher than expected based on their availability."

According to the article, titled "Selective Foraging for Anthropogenic Resources by Black Bears: Minivans in Yosemite National Park":

Black bears forage selectively to balance energetic and nutritional gains with foraging costs. Selection of minivans by bears in Yosemite National Park was the likely consequence of efforts to maximize caloric gain and minimize costs by targeting vehicles with higher probabilities of payoff. Potential costs to bears came in the form of energy spent breaking into vehicles and considerable risk because park rangers were deployed nightly for surveillance and bears detected in or around campgrounds and parking lots received aggressive negative conditioning. The trade-off between food acquisition and penal actions by humans likely pressured bears to target vehicles with the highest probability of attaining food.

Cost-benefit analysis. Bears aren't so different from us.