HELP!! CAR FOR NEW DRIVER 17y/o

HELP!! CAR FOR NEW DRIVER 17y/o

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Foliage

3,861 posts

121 months

Friday 28th August 2015
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I always suggest the jap/Korean 'granny' cars, they seem rarer and are driven by well grannies so the crash/break in stats should be lower so cheaper insurance. Not exactly the sexist cars though, but its yours first car.

Alto, Swift, Matiz, Sirion, Yaris, Picanto, Amica.

If you have your heart set on a german car, have a look at the lupo/polo and the seat equivalents.





Edited by Foliage on Friday 28th August 15:46

0llie

3,006 posts

195 months

Friday 28th August 2015
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Slow said:
Seen a few adverts for brand new Adam with a years insurance for £129 a month or something stupid.

That monthly fee is less than you would pay per month on insurance alone on most cars.
Few other cars are coming with free insurance too.
Sadly the free insurance usually applies to over 18s or 21s

Slow

6,973 posts

136 months

Friday 28th August 2015
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0llie said:
Sadly the free insurance usually applies to over 18s or 21s
Was age 17-21 had a £20 admin fee on the offer I saw as I showed my brother.

shake n bake

2,221 posts

206 months

Friday 28th August 2015
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Peugeot 107/Toyota aygo/ Citroen c1 seem to be the cheapest to insure based on what we sell to who. They're not that bad to drive either really.

smileymikey

1,445 posts

225 months

Friday 28th August 2015
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See about having a black box fitted for the first year or two. Might be worth nipping into a High St insurance broker and asking the staff what cars they know to be good news for a young driver

williamp

19,217 posts

272 months

Friday 28th August 2015
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Classic is the way to go...


http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Here is me at 17



paranoid airbag

2,679 posts

158 months

Friday 28th August 2015
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HustleRussell said:
I'm 26 so it's irrelevant anyway but I recently bought a 1.1 Citroen Saxo as a stop gap car while my BMW is being done up and was astounded to find that it's more costly to insure than my 190bhp 5-series. Clearly a lot of these cars have been wrapped around street furniture by yoofs.

Don't get too fixated on engine sizes or insurance groups, get quotes on a variety of cars.

Newer cars are often cheaper to insure than their older equivalents, so consider upping your car budget.
This. Well, in all honesty a M3 isn't going to cut it (even old), but the logic of "tin can with sewing machine motor = cheap" really doesn't seem to hold up. Small cars are plenty fast enough to turn the strumpet in the passenger seat into a paraplegic, or write off an Aston, and are no more benign handling than anything else with a sane amount of power.

Davel

8,982 posts

257 months

Friday 28th August 2015
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Just insured my 17 year old son who passed his test two weeks ago.

Fiesta 1.4 Zetec for £1,850 and the car and policy are in his name.

Used 'We are Marmalade' after getting lots of horrendous quotes elsewhere.

Oh and despite taking his test in a manual car, he chose an auto....