Skoda insurance quotes and insurance groups

Insurance group ratings take into account performance, security, damage and parts costs, new car values, availability of body shells and repair costs and times. What you'll typically find is that cars in lower insurance groups cost less to insure, whilst cars in higher insurance groups attract a higher premium - usually because they are high performance models or have high repair or replacement costs.

Skoda’s resurgence began in 1987 with the fantastically popular Favorit model. For many years before Skoda had been at the brunt of many jokes despite being a common sight on British roads. During the privatization of Czechoslovakian companies at the beginning of the 1990’s the Skoda marque was sold to Volkswagen Group.

In the early 2000s Skoda tackled its image problem head on with an ironic "It is a Skoda, honest" campaign. Behind this ambitious marketing campaign was the solid product base of the Skoda Fabia and Octavia. The campaign was so successful that Skoda actually developed a waiting list, something that had never occurred in the company’s 100 year+ history.

Today Skoda is enjoying much success with its Octavia model picking up awards year on year, with its most recent award being the 2009 What Car? Magazine Best Buy Estate under £15,000. The Octavia also won the same award a year earlier making the Skoda brand revival one of the greatest in automotive history.