Offer Document Posted

Aviva PLC
23 March 2005



News release



NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN, INTO OR FROM THE UNITED STATES,
                           AUSTRALIA, CANADA OR JAPAN



23 March 2005



                                   Aviva plc

                Recommended Cash Offer for RAC plc (the 'Offer')



                           Posting of Offer Document



Aviva plc ('Aviva') announces that an Offer Document formally making the Offer
for the whole of the issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of RAC plc
('RAC'), together with the associated Forms of Acceptance, are today being
posted to RAC shareholders. The Offer Document will be available for viewing via
Aviva's website*, although the Offer may only be accepted by returning a Form of
Acceptance or (in the case of uncertificated RAC Shares) through CREST. The
Offer Document is not available for viewing via Aviva's website by certain
overseas shareholders.



Goldman Sachs International and JPMorgan Cazenove Limited, which are authorised
and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority, are
acting exclusively for Aviva and no one else in connection with the Offer and
this announcement and will not be responsible to anyone other than Aviva for
providing the protections afforded to their clients nor for providing advice in
connection with the Offer or this announcement or any matter referred to herein.



Lazard & Co., Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom
by the Financial Services Authority, is acting exclusively for RAC and no one
else in connection with the Offer and this announcement and will not be
responsible to anyone other than RAC for providing the protections afforded to
its clients nor for providing advice in connection with the Offer or this
announcement or any matter referred to herein.

* TUTUhttp://w3.cantos.com/05/Aviva-RAC/UUTT



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