Small cars for tall drivers?
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Heads up - Smarts indeed are ideal for tall / long legged people - but they aren't cheap to insure, even for 30-odds like myself, so may be a bit of a shock for a youngster.
Remember it's a roll cage on wheels and anything it hits it will do *lots* of damage to. Presumably this has put up third party claims. If you go for a Smart then MSM insurance were the best when we owned one.
Alternatively, get a Clio of some sort and replace the drivers seat with a race seat and mount it further back, plenty of room for virtually any reasonably tall person.
Remember it's a roll cage on wheels and anything it hits it will do *lots* of damage to. Presumably this has put up third party claims. If you go for a Smart then MSM insurance were the best when we owned one.
Alternatively, get a Clio of some sort and replace the drivers seat with a race seat and mount it further back, plenty of room for virtually any reasonably tall person.
cyberface said:
Heads up - Smarts indeed are ideal for tall / long legged people - but they aren't cheap to insure, even for 30-odds like myself, so may be a bit of a shock for a youngster.
I found insurance quotes quite cheap for a basic, new, later 700cc smart after i test drove one last year (i was 19 at the time).
Cheers,
Rob.
Rob_F said:
Heads up - Smarts indeed are ideal for tall / long legged people - but they aren't cheap to insure, even for 30-odds like myself, so may be a bit of a shock for a youngster.
I found insurance quotes quite cheap for a basic, new, later 700cc smart after i test drove one last year (i was 19 at the time).
Cheers,
Rob.
Oh well, insurance is pretty random then. I tried a bunch of companies and they all said that crash claims were always big for collisions involving Smarts - they're roll cages on wheels and trash any car they hit. Try it - drive a Smart at town speed into a Volvo and see the state of the Volvo afterwards. Repair costs are huge. Also any reasonable impact in a Smart writes the car off as the special cage pushes all the impact energy under the chassis into the engine.
Then again, mine was a cabrio so perhaps that explained the high premiums? I'm talking relative here to, say, a Ford Ka or similar titchy town car. We were looking at £400 odd which I thought a bit much for a tiny 50 bhp station car, compared with the £700 which my supercharged 911 costs.
cyberface said:
Then again, mine was a cabrio so perhaps that explained the high premiums? I'm talking relative here to, say, a Ford Ka or similar titchy town car. We were looking at £400 odd which I thought a bit much for a tiny 50 bhp station car, compared with the £700 which my supercharged 911 costs.
Aye, Cabrios for me are insane insurance wise - i think it's the fact they're so easy to break into/steal/vandalise because of the roof.
Cheers,
Rob.
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