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Car insurance at record high as average premium reaches \u00a3924<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nSome are being forced to scrap cars on the grounds that the cost to insure them per year is not far off the value of the actual vehicles. And that\u2019s madness.<\/p>\n
Other motorists are slapping Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN) restrictions on their much-loved cars, locking them away uninsured in secure, private, alarmed garages and perhaps hoping to wheel them out again when the UK\u2019s \u00a320billion-per-year insurance business is forced by politicians or market forces (or both) to charge more reasonable prices.<\/p>\n
Those who I consider to be the smartest real-world motorists are downgrading to more modestly priced and powered cars that sit in lower insurance groups.<\/p>\n
Sadly, others are having to admit their motoring days are over because they can no longer pay the prices charged by insurers. How is that \u2018progress\u2019?<\/p>\n
Another worrying by-product of the situation is the small but scary band of can\u2019t-pay\/won\u2019t-pay drivers taking the illegal route of driving on public roads uninsured.<\/p>\n
The above examples and other factors prove we\u2019re in a rotten, car insurance industry-inspired mess. It\u2019s motivated by sheer greed and designed to squeeze consumers until the pips squeak. Textbook stuff: an insurance sector pricing motorists out of the market and therefore reducing the size of its customer base. Firms are allowing once-loyal, lucrative clients to walk away and possibly never return. How dumb is that?<\/p>\n
And how ironic that the unfit-for-purpose insurance industry now needs to seriously consider insuring itself \u2013 against the inevitable loss of countless customers, a reduction in the number of policies sold and, in turn, possible lost profits of millions of pounds.<\/p>\n
Think I\u2019m exaggerating? In a period of just 12 inflation-shattering months, quoted motor insurance premiums have risen by an average 61 per cent, with drivers in London paying 69.5 per cent more, those in the West Midlands suffering a 64.4 per cent hike, and South Easterners enduring a 64.2 per cent leap. At the same time wage rises \u2013 for the lucky ones that got them \u2013 were nearer six per cent! You do the maths.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, one of Britain\u2019s best-known and most-respected national broadsheets reports that some Range Rovers have become \u201cvirtually impossible\u201d to insure in certain parts of London. The paper reckons a typical 35-year-old female resident with six years\u2019 driving experience is now being asked to pay \u00a322,515 for annual cover. Worst value for money in modern motoring history? Probably.<\/p>\n
Is car insurance too expensive? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section….<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nSource: Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Rutherford is stunned that car insurance premiums have risen by an average 61 per cent in the past 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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