Many people see car insurance as a necessary evil. It is essential if you want to remain legally able to drive your car on a public road and comes in handy if you have an accident, but it can cost a fortune. In fact, it can take a massive chunk out of your budget, depending on where you live, the make and model of the car, whether you have a garage, how old you are, how many years no claims you have and the list goes on!

There are some reasonable and affordable car insurance quotes available to you if you know where to look for them In fact, it can take only five minutes of your time to get one of the great deals out there. You could go to several car insurance companies directly, but you would probably miss out on the best policies at the cheapest prices. Going to a comparison site, or an aggregator site to give it the correct name, is much quicker and can work out to be a lot cheaper.

Take Steven Brown, for example. He went to the websites of Nationwide, HSBC, E-sure, Direct Line and Norwich Union for quotes. He did find a good deal at E-sure for his 2007 Ford Fiesta 1.4l Zetec Climate, but could have saved a further 109 had he gotten a quote from Churchill as well.

A few of the aggregator sites only have a handful of partners so they might not be the best ones to go to, but those that have a long list of partners can give you a huge range of car insurance quotes quickly on the basis of information that you give them via one form.

As such, you choose the policy with the features you want at the best price from the results returned. You only need to search once, which will save you time and effort as well as money.

One thing to bear in mind when searching for car insurance quotes, whether individually or collectively is that larger insurers tend to charge more. These insurers, like Norwich Union for example, may be reputable but they may charge more to cover their advertising budget to get new customers in!

Standard cars are easy to obtain car insurance policy quotes from and all of the above applies, but if you have a performance car then the stakes change dramatically.

The performance car insurance on offer from the top companies are much higher and sometimes not affordable so it is better to go to specialist companies directly to see what they can do for you. You will undoubtedly find the best cover and price from them.