Jaguar Land Rover has resorted to providing its personal insurance coverage to assist prospects shield themselves from the scourge of key cloning and keyless automobile theft and criminals focusing on its excessive worth automobiles to strip for elements or resale overseas.

The carmaker earlier this 12 months stated it had invested greater than £10 million in lessening the probabilities of the most recent Vary Rover fashions being stolen by creating superior electrical structure that options the most recent safety know-how.

Current DVLA knowledge exhibits that the Vary Rover was the second most stolen automobile of 2022, the Land Rover Discovery was the fifth most stolen. Yr-on-year the variety of stolen Vary Rovers elevated by 47% to five,533 since 2021.

The carmakers stated that since 2022, greater than 70,000 eligible Defender, Discovery, Vary Rover and Jaguar automobiles made since 2018 onwards have now acquired free safety updates to make sure the identical ranges of safety in opposition to theft as present, new fashions.

Police forces are nonetheless nonetheless advising house owners to suit mechanical safety units, comparable to pedal locks, wheel clamps and steering wheel locks, to extend the deterrent.

Now, in a transfer to assist prospects entry insurance coverage cowl, Vary Rover purchasers within the UK are actually being provided safety by Land Rover Insurance coverage. Cowl can also be accessible to house owners of Defender and Discovery automobiles, in addition to Jaguar automobiles by Jaguar Insurance coverage.

The totally complete insurance coverage ensures any repairs are accomplished by a JLR authorised bodyshop, utilizing solely real elements. The coverage is versatile with no deposits or curiosity prices and purchasers are in a position to amend or cancel their cowl with no charge. The value can also be assured for 12 months.

JLR stated the service has supplied quotes to greater than 4,000 purchasers since October, with a median month-to-month premium of lower than £200, including that it has shared its newest safety knowledge with main insurance coverage suppliers to assist improve the vary of insurance coverage choices on the open market. 

Patrick McGillycuddy, JLR UK managing director, stated: “Prospects of luxurious automobiles and different luxurious items are experiencing a rise in thefts resulting from organised felony exercise within the UK. The desirability of our luxurious automobiles, coupled with considerations round thefts, has lately led to challenges in acquiring insurance coverage cowl for some purchasers.

“We’re totally dedicated to doing every thing we will to handle this by adopting a multifaceted strategy: from our important funding in car safety, to now offering our personal insurance coverage. Whereas our new insurance coverage proposition is a key milestone, we wish to reassure purchasers that we’ll proceed monitoring and refining our service in order that much more purchasers can benefit from it.” 

JLR stated its newest automobiles are proving resilient to theft with UK police knowledge indicating that since January 2022, solely 9 of the 12,200 new Vary Rovers on the street have been stolen (0.07 per cent), whereas solely 13 of the 13,400 new Vary Rover Sports activities on the street have been affected (0.1 per cent).