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Foreign breakdown cover

We are taking my wife's 6 year old VW Beetle cabriolet touring through France this summer.

From your experience, which company gives the best breakdown cover - just in case?

Asked on 3 June 2011 by j r e

Answered by Honest John
Britannia Rescue and the RAC.
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