BMW Car Insurance

BMW is a Munich based motor manufacturer, the name being the achronym for Barvarian Motor Works. As well as the BMW brand, they also own the Mini and Rolls Royce brands. BMW have a long history, founded by Karl Friedrich Rapp in 1913 as an aeroplane engine manufaturer (the round badge is supposed to be a stylised representation of a propellor flying through clouds and sky and in the post WW1 era they manufacturer a range of products from train brakes to motorbike engines. It was not until 1928 that they produced their first car.

The current BMW range is divded into what the company call Series, denoted by a single letter or number. This is often followed by a couple of numbers which usually denotes the engine size so a 325 is a 3 series with an 25 hundred cc engine.

1 series. Compact small car

3 series. Compact executive car

5 series mid size luxury car

6 series Large sports coupe.

7 series Large Luxury car

X Medium (X3) 4x4 and large (X5) 4x4

Z series Z4 Roadster

Below are the insurance groups for some popular BMW models. Note: Many insurers don't use the industry standard insurance groups quoted by the ABI (Association of British Insurers). The following insurance groups are for advisory purposes only so we cannot confirm that they are correct.