Range Rover owners living in large cities are expected to pay more than those in rural areas with some motorists quoted five-figure car insurance sums.
Confused.com showed the cheapest quote for an £80,000 Range Rover Sport PHEV Autobiography was £3,351 in Land’s End, Cornwall.
However, fees jumped to a staggering £13,721 for a location in Central Manchester, according to analysis from This is Money. Just 18 miles away in Prestbury, motorists can insure the model for £8,303 meaning location does make a difference.
The investigation found that each mile away from the city could help a Range Rover owner save £301 in their annual premiums.
It comes after Range Rover owners have struggled to afford cover as customers are hit with the effects of soaring crime rates.
One motorist received a whopping £14,000 bill to take out car insurance on a four-year-old Range Rover machine. 52-year-old Mark Perring revealed two firms quoted him over £10,000 to insure his model as he called out the popular SUV brand.
Land Rover’s own insurance scheme, introduced after it emerged that firms were refusing to cover some owners, even failed to give him an estimation.
The owner claimed second-hand valuations had also dropped meaning he would not be able to recuperate anywhere near the £90,000 he spent on the car.
He told The Daily Mail: “People have bought these cars, which are not bloody cheap, and when you come to insure it you can’t, and now people are selling them for pennies in the pound. Jaguar Land Rover need to be named and shamed.”
It comes as a couple were forced to sell their brand new Range Rover for a £14,000 loss after insurance firms cancelled their agreement.
40-year-old stay-at-home mum Hannah Platts and her husband Kareem Chester were told their firm “could no longer provide cover” for their Land Rover Defender.
New quotes were a staggering £11,000 forcing the family to part ways with their car at a considerably lower valuation.
DVLA figures showed the Range Rover was one of the “most stolen cars in 2023” in a major blow. Land Rover thefts were up a staggering 80 percent in 2022 with Range Rover models accounting for three-quarters, according to data from Axa.
The major brand recently invested a massive £10million to boost security in a bid to protect its customers. New data from the DVLA in January showed a massive improvement with Range Rover Sport thefts down 28.6 percent.
In January, Patrick McGillycuddy, JLR UK Managing Director, said: “The rapid decline in Range Rover thefts in the last year, demonstrates the strength of our latest vehicle security measures.
“These significant reductions are a result of engineering our new vehicles to be robust against all known theft methods through the latest anti-theft technology, endorsed by third-party experts like Thatcham. In fact, our latest data shows that only ten out of 12,200 of the latest model of Range Rovers have been stolen since January 2022.”
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