4*4s costing more to insure

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Tommy - 06 Mar 2007 18:48 GMT

A shake-up in how vehicles are categorised for insurance purposes could well
mean that 4x4 drivers will pay more for their insurance.

For the first time, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) is taking into
account how much a car weighs to determine its insurance group.

It's not environmental reasons that are driving the changes, though -
instead, insurers reckon the heaviest models are the most likely to cause
severe third party damage in collisions.

http://www.whatcar.com/news-article.aspx?NA=224382

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Lurkio - 17 Mar 2007 13:18 GMT

Mr Gore (ex US vice-president) in his film on global warming was a little
biased - he stated there is a relationship between global warming and CO2 -
he forgot to say that if you don't just look at the last 25years but the
last 10,000 there is actually an inverse link between them and the "since
records began" for a lot of the GW figures are from the 1800s a time we had
very cold weather, If one goes back a couple more 100s of Years we had
vineyards in't north

And no 4*4s to blame then :-)

> A shake-up in how vehicles are categorised for insurance purposes
> could well mean that 4x4 drivers will pay more for their insurance.
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> http://www.whatcar.com/news-article.aspx?NA=224382

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