How insurance groups affect your car insurance premium

If you're considering changing your car then it's well worth thinking beyond finance deals, part ex trade-in prices and dealer discounts. You may not realise it, but the car you choose to buy today could impact on your car insurance premiums for many more years to come.

Cars are assigned to one of twenty “insurance groups” by the Group Rating Panel, which bases groupings primarily on research conducted by the Motor Insurance Repair Research Centre (Thatcham). Not all car insurers choose to use the groups set by the panel - some opt to set their own groupings instead.

Whichever set of insurance groups an insurer works to, you'll typically find that cars in lower insurance groups attract a lower premium whilst cars in higher insurance groups attract a higher premium, usually because they are high performance models or prestige cars that have high repair or replacement costs. If you already own your car, or know which insurance group it falls under then why not get a quote now? Otherwise, choose a make to start researching insurance groups by model.

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