Are Range Rovers now uninsurable in London?

I was speaking to a friend who lives near me in North London and wanted to change his car from a BMW to a Land or Range Rover and was quoted £8000 for insurance. He decided to buy an Audi Q5 instead. My...

What would be a good first car for a new driver?

Can you suggest make and model for a first car for a newly qualified 18 year old driver? Low cost please, including insurance (say less than £5k).

My car was damaged by a hit-and-run driver - should I repair it or just sell it?

My 2013 BMW 520d Touring has done 101,000 miles. But recently I saw that someone had driven into the side of the car and hadn’t stopped or left their details. Both near side doors are scratched and dented,...

Will electric car insurance prices increase?

Given that many electric cars have fantastic power and performance gains over internal combustion engine vehicles, are insurance prices going up to reflect this?

Can thieves easily locate a factory-fitted tracker?

Earlier this year I bought a new Porsche Cayenne and paid to activate the inbuilt tracker system. It occurs to me that, being a factory-fitted item, they are possibly all the same, enabling thieves to...

Poor paint finish after accident repair

My Mazda 6 was damaged by another vehicle in late-2017. This required a respray and the wing re-attached to the body correctly. Recently I was jet washing my car and noticed that a circular section of...

Why does the start date of insurance affect the price of the premium?

I am moving back to the UK and have my car waiting for me, I am looking at the insurance comparison websites and tried different dates (to suit family getting it MOTd etc before I return). Each time I...

Is an automatic car more expensive to insure than a manual?

I'm looking at buying a car but when I put the details on the insurance website it states it's an automatic but it's a manual. Will it affect my insurance?

Is there a 'warm' hatch for an 18 year old that won't be ruinously costly to insure?

Our 18-year-old daughter is angling for her own car and would like something 'more interesting' (i.e. faster) than her mother's three-cylinder 1.0 litre Hyundai i10, in which she's to date been a secondary...

Who counts as the main driver of a vehicle - the person who does the most miles or the most single journeys?

I was reading about the five most insurance "fibs" and one of them is fronting when, say a parent, puts their name first and the son/daughter as an additional driver to save money. We all know that the...