Car insurance Range Rover

[justanotherparrot]

I've got a 2018 Evoque and my insurance this year has tripled. The insurer said they're not insuring them any more due to them being the number one most stolen car. Anyone else heard about this and who did you find to insure you most competitively?

Porsche Cayenne was awful to drive. Handed it back at the earliest opportunity. No one I know who had/has them is happy with them.

Everyone's car insurance has gone up massively this year.

Not everybody’s. Mine hardly changed on my day to day car. I have just renewed our Land Rover insurance and within a couple of pounds it has stayed the same it has been for the last ten years… £121. It doesn’t even have any locks.

May I ask who you insure with please?

May I ask who you insure with please?

LV for our day to day cars and Adrian Flux for the Land Rover.

All cars have declared modifications.

We insure three cars one of which is worth approx 25K after 4 years so they arent old bangers. I have a 1 year old top of the range small car. Insurance has indeed jumped up 30% for us with NO claims. I called them to be told off record that we are now paying for the scum bags who dont bother to insure themselves. And please dont say maybe they cannot afford it, live in the middle of nowhere, have 5 kids etc.

They are truly the dregs of society.

When I say everyone’s insurance perhaps I should have said it’s ‘very common for increased premiums at the moment’.

My old car was renewed for £20 more than the previous year, I changed my car to a Range Rover Sport and it only increased by £250.

However, you only need to look at money pages in any paper to see it’s an increasing issue, to lots of people driving very ordinary cars.

Just because you’ve not been affected doesn’t make it not so.

Be careful buying a Taycan, depreciation is awful just now.

Guy owes 77k on the £125k Taycan he bought last year, was offered 40k px.

There's issues with battery fires in evs depressing the market. Might well be conspiracy theories but still having an effect.

@HolidayHappy123 go for the Taycan. Absolutely amazing car, the acceleration is insane but yet its a pleasure to drive around sensibly too. As a full EV its a great compliment to my Defender, but it is very practical (we did go for the extended range/ ultra fast charge)

Be careful buying a Taycan, depreciation is awful just now.

Guy owes 77k on the £125k Taycan he bought last year, was offered 40k px.

This man?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7276jhD1o-w

I had a beautiful sports car but I couldn't drive it round my city because of the potholes and appalling road surfaces. Had damage to the sidewalls on two occasions at around 20mph due to the depth of the potholes and the ridiculously low profile tyres. Some of us do need a 4x4 in the city because of the roads.

I was quoted between £750 and £950 for a 22 plate Evoque which was shocking.

Is the Land Rover InControl tracker subscription thingy worth having? £340 for two years.

Interestingly I work with the “types” that steal RR’s ( amongst other things)
Most recently, one of whom stole 13 in 6 months and for no other reason other than to “ Lord it about” in a RR because that’s what dealers do…
Not even a jail sentence.

Your options are not restricted to either a beautiful sports car or a 4x4. Unless you're going to drip feed that the city you're living in is Aleppo a normal shaped saloon or hatchback will be able to cope with even pretty shit roads.

750-950 isn't that much (assuming it's per year not per month ), there are loads of RR owners paying in the thousands

I can get an amazing deal on a Taycan at the moment. £115k spec for £80k 3 months old. Turned it down because it didn’t have a heated steering wheel and that’s one of my must haves at this time of year.

My insurance expires on Saturday and the cheapest renewal was £13k! Thankfully I got an offer on my car this afternoon and it’s being collected tomorrow.

🤣

Nobody living in a city needs a 4x4 to cope with the state of the roads, not in the UK anyway. What city are we on about? You should see what I drive my 15 year old Skoda estate over (country lanes, leaves, mud-bath lay-bys, farm tracks etc) , and it manages absolutely fine. A bog standard car would take you from A to B and it's silly to insist your only options are a Range Rover or a beautiful sports car

I’m seriously thinking of switching to a 4x4 with big bouncy tyres after breaking a wheel on a pothole in my saloon car. I do live “rurally” though.

Any updates on companies that will insure a RR - having real problems finding someone. Thanks

Mine is insured with M&S.

mercedes owner here and mine has also trebled, had the car 4 years and it was £400 to insure, last year was £1500!

Mine’s with Tesco, was with the AA but they refused to quote this year. Maximum no claims, parked on a driveway in Hertfordshire and no business travelling.