Motor warranty and insurance specialist Car Care Plan (CCP) moved into overdrive last year and va-va-voomed past the one million policies sold in one year mark.

It is the first time the company has sold that many contracts in a single year since it was founded back in the flared-trouser, cheesecloth shirt days of 1976.

Managing director of CCP, Paul Newton, revealed figures showing there had been a ten per cent increase in sales over 2006 - itself a record year.

The impressive results show that the product range, which now includes paintwork and upholstery protection alongside its core warranty policies, is starting to discard its niche market tag and is starting to become more attractive to a wider motoring public.

Mr Newton, speaking to the Insurance Times magazine, said: "It took us well over ten years to sell our first million products after being founded in 1976, and now we have achieved that figure in one year alone.

Mr Newton has said that although CAP was looking to expand on its product range its "fundamental core skill is and will continue to be motor warranties".

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