It's busy work bringing you the best value insurance on the market. Here's what Tesco Compare has been up to.

21st May 2008

Tescocompare.com tops Defaqto table for the second time running Tescocompare.com has defended its top place as Defaqto’s best car insurance comparison site. Defaqto, an independent financial research company, carried out an analysis of 41 motor insurance comparison sites, assessing them for functionality and usability features. Tescocompare.com, which topped the tables in Defaqto’s previous analysis in October 2007, scored a rating of 77% this time, once again the highest score of all tested sites.

21st May 2008

South West hosts Sexy Green Car Show at Eden Project - and tops the table for green drivers. The Sexy Green Car Show at the Eden Project in Devon should attract its fair share of visitors from around the country. The South West is not only home to the Sexy Green Car Show but also to some of the UK’s greenest drivers, according to Tescocompare.com.

9th May 2008

The Tescocompare car map of the UK Tescocompare.com, the car insurance comparison site, reveals the car map of the UK – based on car insurance quotes for over half a million cars. The car map reveals that where you live really does have an influence on what car you drive. Just some of the stereotypes the analysis done for the car map, supports or debunks include:

7th May 2008

New Government driving test Paul Baxter, Director of Commercial and Partnerships at Tescocompare.com, comments on the Government’s plans to introduce increased driving tests.

30th April 2008

Carrot not the stick will persuade motorists to go green New research by Tescocompare.com, the car insurance comparison site, reveals that 2.0 million motorists claim to drive an environmentally friendly car – but that over 21 million would consider converting to a ’green’ or low-emission car if the price was more competitive and the government offered incentives for doing so.

1st April 2008

Men are behind the wheel on car insurance. When it comes to understanding what they are purchasing it appears that women are much better buyers than men. Research published today by Tescocompare.com, reveals that women are much more likely to have read the descriptions and details of what they buy than men, apart from when it comes to those traditionally male items – cars and technology.

12th March 2008

TescoCompare.com responds to moneysupermarket.com’s claim that is the cheapest car insurance comparison site: Paul Baxter, Director of Partnerships and Commercial at TescoCompare.com, comments: "The announcement by moneysupermarket.com is based on biased research commissioned by moneysupermarket.com for their own ends – it is not independent as claimed and it is based on only 100 different risk scenarios."

5th March 2008

Admiral, Diamond and Endsleigh brands join Tescocompare.com Tescocompare.com announces today the addition of three new car insurance brands to its car insurance comparison service. Admiral, Diamond and Endsleigh are the latest additions to Tescocompare.com, further strengthening its unique panel and increasing the number of car insurance brands to choose from to 33.

4th March 2008

Tescocompare.com – A car insurance comparison site for the loyal customer Research published today by Tescocompare.com provides an insight into the 7.8 million loyal car insurance customers who haven't switched insurers in the last five years. The primary motivation for these consumers to remain loyal is the level of cover their policy provides, not the 'no claims bonus' or the price of the policy. In fact, the price they pay for their car insurance becomes increasingly less important the more loyal the customer is.

3rd March 2008

TescoCompare.com supports the Thoresen Review Commenting on today’s Thoresen Review, Paul Baxter, Director of Commercial and Partnerships at TescoCompare.com, says: "TescoCompare.com is fully supportive of the Thoresen Review and its recommendations for the role a fully impartial comparison site could play in the Money Guidance scheme."

26th February 2008

It pays to move in together Co-habiting or married couples could be wasting money on their car insurance premiums by failing to take out joint policies, new research from Tescocompare.com warns. Tescocompare.com highlights that co-habiting couples could be saving an average of over £100 by adding their partner as an additional driver to their existing car insurance policies.

4th February 2008

Tescocompare.com comes out on top again Tescocompare.com has been rated the cheapest price comparison site for car insurance by independent research agency Consumer Intelligence. The research compared the top five car insurance aggregator sites and looked at how often each of them delivered the cheapest quote on 2000 consumer risk profiles. For the second month in a row, Tescocompare.com came out on top, with the cheapest quote on over 39% of the risk profiles in December 2007.

23rd January 2008

Ensuring consumers fully understand the costs of a policy It is not surprising that some consumers are finding it difficult to fully understand the different cover levels on insurance polices offered via some comparison sites. Every single insurance policy will vary in its exact details from other policies and some aggregator sites are not helping consumers to compare policies on a like for like basis.

4th December 2007

TescoCompare.com gets off to a flying start Commenting on Consumer Intelligence Motor Insurance Market study, Peter Dingle, Managing Director at Tesco Compare.com said: "This report further confirms that TescoCompare.com’s unique car insurance comparison proposition has been a success with consumers. We have worked very hard to make our service as user friendly as possible, focusing on not just a simple price comparison function but also including additional factors that are important to the consumer.

30th November 2007

Motorists have yet to learn the switching game While it has been widely reported that Britons have been proving that they are keen switchers when it comes to utilities and telecoms providers, new research by TescoCompare.com reveals that British motorists are playing catch-up, with only a third of the nation's car owners (32%) stating that they have switched their car insurance provider in the last 12 months.

14th November 2007

The cost of not being Mr. or Mrs. Buy Right Research out today from Tesco Compare.com reveals that Brits believe they have lost out to the tune of £750 million in the last 12 months because they have not been able to claim on a car, home or travel insurance policy even though they thought they were covered.

29th October 2007

TescoCompare.com gets thumbs up from Defaqto Tescocompare.com has been rated best car insurance comparison site by Defaqto, an independent product research company. Defaqto carried out an analysis of 17 motor insurance comparison sites, assessing them for functionality and usability features.

12th September 2007

Tesco brings supermarketing to the financial services industry by launching a motor insurance comparison site Tesco Personal Finance announces the launch of TescoCompare.com, a new car insurance comparison site. The site will be an extension of Tesco’s successful joint venture with RBS. This is the first time a UK supermarket will be offering personal finance products from a variety of different brands.