I found out why the Abarth and ‘esseesse’ have such a high insurance grouping – no alarm!
Every hot hatch on the market comes with a factory fitted alarm – except one.. the Abarth.
It’s not cos it costs a fortune to repair after an accident the rest of the range have very low insurance groupings, the T-jet is 6 for heaven sake! It has a 5-star EuroNCAP rating, so the passengers won’t get hurt much.
Notice the Thatcham theft ratings for the Grande Punto compared to its competitors here http://www.thatcham.org/nvsr/index.jsp?page=199
If you do a search on the link below you can see what cars have an alarm, or just an immobiliser. Look for T2 for immobiliser, T1 for alarm and immobiliser.
http://www.thatcham.org/abigrouprati…searchtype=car
Also look at the ‘group type’ -
# A = Meets security requirement for this group.
# D = Does not meet the security requirement for a car of this type and the group rating has therefore been increased. (e.g. A group 9 car where the security requirement is not up to Thatcham’s minimum standard for that group will be listed as a 10D.)
# E = Exceeds security requirement for a car of this type and the group rating has therefore been reduced. (e.g. A group 9 car where the security requirement exceeds Thatcham’s minimum standard for that group will be listed as an 8E.)
(It will be seen from the above that the level of security on a vehicle could result in a two group differential between otherwise identical models.)
# P = Provisional – This is used in cases where the data for group rating was incomplete at time of launch.
# U = Cases where the level of security for the model concerned is regarded as Unacceptable. This does not mean that the car will be uninsurable but consumers should be aware that individual insurers may insist on the security being upgraded before providing cover.
Notice the D ‘group type’ for the Abarth and ‘esseesse’
This is simply not good enough Fiat – you’d better be listening!
