Kanetix® auto insurance tips, information and articles

Your guide to Ontario’s auto insurance reforms: 2010

• Ontario auto insurance reforms: a background
• What is not changing?
• What options are now available?
• Frequently Asked Questions

About auto insurance

• Mind the (car) modifications
• To lend, or not to lend your car?
• Moving? Where you live affects how much you pay in insurance
• The greatest myths about auto insurance
• Cross-border driving - Make sure you and your insurance are ready for the drive
• Using a trailer this summer? Make sure your insurance is in tow
• Why you need property insurance for your car
• Major conviction, minor conviction ... what's the diff?
• "No fault" and "no blame" not the same!
• Car insurance rates: a "CLEAR" picture
• Accident forgiveness: The “new” approach to winning your business.
• Car colour and your car insurance
• Most popular car colours and how they impact your insurance rate.
• How one accident can affect your auto insurance rate
• Tips on filing an insurance claim after an accident
• Your insurance never takes a holiday - even if you do.
• Insurance risks higher during the holidays - be prepared!

Car insurance in the news

• Insurance and Taxes: The HST in Ontario and British Columbia
• Are car insurance rates on the rise?
• Drive into auto show season without overpaying for your auto insurance
• Keeping car buyers in Canada: Auto prices set to drop
• Six of the oddest, most bizarre insurance claims
• Fantastic Four: Fall of the auto insurance premium
• Hurricanes in Canada? When they happen (and they do), will you be covered?
• Driven to distraction: The impact of distractions on the Canadian driver
• Today's auto insurance market   As featured in the Globe and Mail.
• "They" say car insurance prices are dropping. What can you expect?

Car insurance trends

• Fighting rising car insurance rates
• Are auto insurance premiums on the rise?
• A good 4-letter word

Hybrid car trends, fuel-efficiency and auto insurance

• Hot hybrids: The 10 most popular hybrids
• Top 10 most popular hybrids in 2008
• Tips on buying a fuel-efficient vehicle
• Is a hybrid in your future? Probably
• Rebated or Taxed: It’s all in what you buy
• Hybrid insurance rates 24 per cent lower than last year
• Hybrid popularity soars, but will your auto insurance?
• Fact, fiction, rumour or reality? The scoop on hybrids
• Hybrid cars in Canada: Will going green save you money?
• Gas prices driving you to walk? You don’t have to park the car yet.
• Gas prices affecting your choice of vehicle for your next purchase?
• Autos that save you money: In gas and in your auto insurance premiums

New to Canada? Moving provinces? Auto insurance tips

• A Letter of Experience - helping you get the lowest rate possible
• New to the country? How to get car insurance in Canada
• How to get car insurance in a new province

Teen car insurance tips and info

• Auto insurance tips for first time buyers
• Car insurance for your teen
• Are teens becoming better drivers?
• Going away to school? Make sure your insurance follows you
• To lend, or not to lend your car?

Car insurance rates compared

• A money-saving reason for going topless all year long
• The cost to insure a $100,000 car—Not as much as you might think
• Make it a long weekend NOT to remember by avoiding tickets and accidents
• One size does not fit all: Auto insurance and your driving experience
• How your choice of vehicle impacts your auto insurance rate
• Traffic tickets and fender-benders: How they impact your insurance rate
• Car insurance for your teen

Drinking and driving and your auto insurance

• Pirates of the road
• ‘Tis the season to eat, drink and be merry; just don’t drive home
• Boating and boozing: Bad behaviour that’ll cost you
• Paris Hilton’s drunk driving will cost her
• The sobering facts about driving impaired
• Drinking, driving and your insurance.

Car and driving safety

• Winter driving misconceptions
• Winter weather car kit checklist
• Tips for winter driving
• Winter car tune-up checklist
• Accident prone: When accidents happen
• Seat belt use and how it can affect your car insurance premium
• Fall back to standard time & safety: An auto checklist
• Car theft - the most costly crime in Canada?

Car insurance quotes: a look at drivers in Canada

• A “crash” course for drivers in Canada
• So you think you can drive?
• Women are better drivers

How you can save on car insurance

• Are car insurance rates on the rise?
• A lifetime of car insurance savings
• Helping you save: The value of deductibles and discounts
• Year-in-review: 2008’s tips that helped Canadians save on auto insurance
• Lower your insurance costs. Top tips to save
• Auto insurance savings tips for 2009
• How to get an immediate 5 to 10 per cent savings on your auto insurance
• The top 10 secrets to cheaper auto insurance
• Switch now. Save now?
• Gas prices driving you to walk? You don’t have to park the car yet.
• Gas prices affecting your choice of vehicle for your next purchase?
• Autos that save you money: In gas and in your auto insurance premiums

Top tens, lists and tidbits on car insurance

Most popular cars on the road

Hot hybrids: The 10 most popular hybrids

2008’s all-time favourite car brands

Top 10 most popular hybrids in 2008

A three year review of the most popular car brands

Ten Commandments for Drivers?

The 10 MOST stolen cars in Canada

The 10 LEAST stolen cars in Canada

What drives a 16 and 65-year old around the bend?

Top 10 MOST expensive cars to insure

Top 10 LEAST expensive cars to insure

The top 10 secrets to cheaper auto insurance

Top five botched insurance frauds of 2005

Car buying tips and your insurance

• Is your clunker almost down for the count?
• The safest cars on the road
• Tips on buying a fuel-efficient vehicle
• Buying a used car? Tips to help you avoid buyer’s remorse

Province-specific auto insurance news and articles

Alberta car insurance

• Canada’s top 10 best-selling cars. These cars are tops with Albertans, but which cost less (or more) to insure?
• Alberta: Rebates are great for Alberta drivers! Now what about the cost of insurance?
• Alberta's 2004 auto insurance reforms: How will you be affected?
• Alberta's 2004 auto insurance reforms: What is the premium grid and how does it work?
• Alberta's 2004 auto insurance reforms: A grid guide to your compulsory insurance premiums

Ontario car insurance

• Steer clear of cell phones: How taking a call while driving could raise your rates
• One month in and 36 drivers a day lose their cars and licenses
• 30 drivers a day lose their cars and licenses under new legislation
• Extreme speeding, will extremely cost you
• Canada’s top 10 best-selling cars. These cars are tops with Ontario drivers, but which cost less (or more) to insure?
• Ontario: Rebates are great for Ontario drivers! Now what about the cost of insurance?
• Ontario car insurance in 2003 - what to expect after the rate freeze

New Brunswick car insurance

• Canada’s top 10 best-selling cars. These cars are tops with New Brunswick drivers, but which cost less (or more) to insure?
• New Brunswick: Rebates are great for New Brunswick drivers! Now what about the cost of insurance?

Nova Scotia car insurance

• Canada’s top 10 best-selling cars. These cars are tops with drivers in Nova Scotia, but which cost less (or more) to insure?
• Nova Scotia: Rebates are great for Nova Scotia drivers! Now what about the cost of insurance?

Recent Kanetix news bytes on auto insurance

2010

• Ontario auto insurance consumers could save an average of $500 by comparison shopping at Kanetix.ca
• Kanetix introduces commentary feature to its library of articles
• Save more than just your quotes at Kanetix.ca; manage your subscriptions too
• Car insurance increased 15.2% in Ontario but declined in Quebec, Alberta
• Alberta car insurance rates decrease an average of 1.3 per cent
• Quebec car insurance rates decrease an average of 9.8 per cent

2009

• Alberta car insurance rates decrease by 0.9 per cent
• The average auto insurance rate quoted in Quebec at Kanetix.ca declines by 6.9% in Q3 2009
• Canadian insurance and mortgage forum launched at www.kanetixforum.ca
• Quarterly car insurance study by Kanetix.ca shows Alberta rates increased 5.9%
• Quarterly car insurance study by Kanetix.ca shows Quebec rates decreased 7%
• Car insurance in Alberta costing 6.4 per cent more according to Kanetix.ca study
• Alberta sees 8.8 per cent increase in auto insurance rate quotes in year-end study

2008

• Almost 74 per cent of Canadians consider buying a fuel-efficient car
• Alberta auto insurance premiums increase according to Kanetix.ca study
• Alberta auto insurance premiums increase 6.7 per cent according to Kanetix.ca study
• Top 10 most popular hybrids quoted for 2008 as announced by Kanetix.ca
• Kanetix.ca announces the 10 most popular hybrids in 2007
• Hybrid car insurance quotes up 65 per cent
• Kanetix.ca study uncovers reason why auto insurance premiums are increasing in Alberta
• Survey says, 16 per cent of drivers try to hide a car accident from a family member
• Kanetix.ca study sees increase in auto insurance premiums - again

2007

• For first time, Kanetix study sees increase in auto insurance premiums in Q3 2007
• Survey says, almost 20 per cent of spouses hide speeding tickets from partner
• Top 10 most popular hybrids quoted online for auto insurance through Kanetix.ca
• Hybrid popularity soars. Auto insurance quotes up 77 per cent
• Kanetix study shows auto insurance premiums dropped almost 17% in Q2 2007
• Kanetix study suggests Canadians need a “crash” course on driving”
• Kanetix study asks Canadians “So you think you can drive?”
• Kanetix study suggests women are better drivers then men
• Kanetix Q1 2007 study shows auto insurance premiums dropped 21%
• The top quoted cars of 2006

2006

• The top 10 list of stolen cars is hot off the press!
• Latest study shows auto insurance premiums dropped by over 25%
• When insurance companies compete, you save.
• Stolen car recovery is on the decline. How safe is your car?
• Are Mp3 players putting you and everyone around you in danger when you're behind the wheel?
• OPP safety blitz nabs thousands of drivers
• Caught speeding? Don’t get caught paying high auto insurance rates.
• Top 10 most popular hybrid cars quoted online for auto insurance through Kanetix
• Think you know what the average 18-24 year-old wants to drive? Guess again.

2005

• Is your vehicle one of the top 10 most stolen in Canada? How it affects your auto insurance rate.
• 83 per cent of Canadians reconsider their choice of vehicle because of gas prices.
• Are you driven to distraction?

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