Car Insurance Zone

Young car insurance policyholders in London are benefiting from a new training centre, which opened this week, funded by the elite motor manufacturer Porsche.

The SKIDZ project in Hillingdon aims to enable hundreds of young people across the borough to develop their passion for vehicle maintenance and safer road use as drivers, riders or pedestrians.

Based at West Drayton Young People’s Centre, demand for the courses is already growing, with more than 120 students expected to enrol this year.

Steve Godfrey, director of the initiative, said: “We are passionate about teaching young people about motor vehicle maintenance and when Porsche approached us with some generous funding, Hillingdon was the obvious choice to develop with the SKIDZ project.”

Courses give young people aged 13 to 19 a chance to gain vocational skills in an adult work-style environment and improve their future opportunities.

Meanwhile, driving workshops offered to help motorists caught speeding in Wiltshire increase their awareness of road safety will soon increase in price from £20 to £80 ? t

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Keith Baxter : What do you excatly mean when you say apples to apples when you compare auto insurance quotes or review car insurance coverage. Is it not that we need to get only the low auto insurance rate? Why should you bother with anything else.

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Response : Keith unfortunately, most of us tend to forget the main purpose of auto insurance which is to have the car insurance coverage so that we are covered for an unfortunate incident which can cause a major loss. We forget this main objective and wholeheartedly focus on getting low auto insurance rates – even $1/- difference seems right. W

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Car maker Skoda has been awarded the top prize at the 2010 Which? awards, being named Best Car Manufacturer.

The accolade was handed to the firm in recognition of its products’ quality, value for money and the high standard of after-sale service offered by the brand.

Peter Vicary-Smith, chief executive of Which?, said that Skoda is a car maker “ideally suited” to the times, as consumers demand more for less.

Editor of Which?

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Top Safety Ratings May Help Reduce Low Car Insurance

The 2010 Volkswagen Passat has earned itself the honor of being named a “Top Safety Pick” in the midsize car class by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The Passat procured the title by receiving the highest rating of “Good” in each category and overall in the frontal offset crash tests. The Passat sedan, wagon, and CC models were all included in this rating.

Earning this title should be no surprise given the abundance of safety and insurance features that exist on the Passat. Four wheel anti-lock brakes with electronic stability and traction control work in conjunction with an electronic brake-pressure distribution, a feature that distributes the correct amount of braking power to each tire as needed. The tir

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Motor insurance holders who are looking to stay safe while on wet roads can now get their hands on a new tyre.

Uniroyal has launched a new rubber that provides extra grip in the wet, which could be of benefit to drivers at this time of the year and also in the winter months.

David White, customer services director at Kwik-Fit, said that many drivers have experienced a loss of traction on wet roads when braking sharply or cornering.

“However, most motorists are unaware that some tyres are especially designed for wet weather performance.

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