The safety's in our cheap motor insurance numbers?
Most of us cheap motor insurers are quite taken with our cars, more often than not, the very reason we buy them in the first place. So therefore, it's pretty fair to assume that cheap motor insurers might wish to keep them. Where they can see them. For a while anyway. Until they've had a few go's of their cheaply insured motor anyway. Unless you won one in a raffle, or, worse still, something masquerading as something automotive you, as a cheap motor insurer, were awarded by a naff gameshow; when instead you wished you'd had the intelligence required to win a holiday to somewhere you'd actually heard of. Think Korean, and you'll get the picture. It's with this in mind that security must pray on the minds of cheap motor insurers from time to time, especially when it comes round to car purchasing.
According to people equipped with the necessary IQ to have answered the holiday-winning question with considerable ease, that will be those who've been promoted from reception duties at the Thatcham Research Centre then, vehicle nabbing is becoming increasingly difficult. Lump hammers and several twisted coat hangers not being as successful as they once were, prior to manufacturers getting with it. They were handing out gongs at the British Insurance Car Security Awards the other day, an event that surely you're gutted you missed out on, we know we were, and we work in the industry; anyhow, its all down to immobilisers and alarms making the life of the crime-etched that much more troublesome. In a move away from the traditional means of breaking and entering in the proximity of your motor, many of those who carry bags with the words SWAG emblazoned across their sack frontage, off set by a poor imitation of Zorro's mask, have turned their attentions to the gaining of the actual keys. Which is much simpler apparently. Well it is if you smash the owners face in with some loose masonry, by way of informing them of your intentions not being altogether honourable. And tow trucks. An ingenious method of confiscating your car, which surely no one with a molecule of cerebral-leaning would bat an eyelid at. Although to quell any irrational emotions in those who are slack with their keys, or oblivious to large, bright coloured recovery vehicles steered by shifty-looking sorts hitching their vehicles up, a spokesclarifier for Thatcham reassured them by adding, contrarily;" The theft of new vehicles without the key, or physically towing it away, is near nigh impossible. Now we would like to see further improvements on stopping criminals stealing valuables from vehicles." So would we. Perhaps by not leaving them on show may help? Or maybe that's why we concentrate on insuring cars instead. Still, you may well be interested to know which motors, won which figurines, in which category. If not, turn away now; and vehicle security-wise, it was this lot who had to hurriedly pen their acceptance speeches;
City car/supermini: Citroen C3 Exclusive. (safe as terraced houses)
Small family car: Citroen C4 Exclusive. (safe as Redrow starter homes)
Family car: Peugeot 407 Executive. (safe as middle-management new builds)
Compact executive car: Lexus IS. (safe as the golf clubhouse)
Compact MPV: Mazda 5. (safe as your birth control methods)
Large MPV: Renault Espace. (safe as your kid's bedroom extension)
Convertible/roadster: Volvo C70. (safe as your wine chiller)
Performance car: Peugeot 407 Coupe. (safe as your wife's mistress-not-noticing knowledge)
Compact 4x4: Nissan X-Trail. (safe as Jet-Ski box)
Large 4x4: Volkswagen Touareg. (safe as your mock-Tudor double garage)
Executive car: Audi A6 saloon. (safe as your hair weave)
Luxury Car: Mercedes-Benz S-Class. (safe as your offshore bank account)
Manufacturer: Audi. (safe as safe can be..)
If you're still with us, our cheap motor insurance is pretty much safe too. Safe in the knowledge it won't let you down, won't cost you an arm and a smashed kneecap, and is here to be enjoyed by all. So there you go.
Date - 21/09/2006
