First car

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First question: how old are you?
 
If you are young it will be very expensive to insure. im learning to drive and got my test next month and my first car is a clio. thats one of the cheapest cars to insure as its only a 1.2 and its £2500 a year so that would probabally be £4000 a year which is twice the value of the car!!!!
im 17 btw
 
Suppose your right Haha i never factored the insurance in when i was looking at it

ach well it will be a wee hatchback for me then!
 
plebbles said:
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i guess your asking because its a 2 litre?
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luke797 said:
If you are young it will be very expensive to insure. im learning to drive and got my test next month and my first car is a clio. thats one of the cheapest cars to insure as its only a 1.2 and its £2500 a year so that would probabally be £4000 a year which is twice the value of the car!!!!
im 17 btw
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Exactly why. Get a small car, don't crash, get a well-paid job and get a beast of a car :D
 
been in a galant and they like **** off a shovel my first car was a ford escort 1.4 if i was you i would give the galant a miss bit to powerful for a first car:'(
 
you will be lucky to get insured on that car lol, if you do you will be wasting your money. Would recomend doing pass plus as this was decrease you insurance a bit. Also you can can get a nipy car that is 1.4 litre. If i were you would look for a cheap car then drive it for a few years and then get an upgrade
 
Cheers for the help guys, its pretty conclusive evidence that i need to avoid the galant :L!
 
I only have a little 1.0 litre corsa, and that costs me £2700 a year to insure... No 1 would insure me for less than £5000 a year on my mums car (a 1.6 meriva)
 
There is a reason why cars of this size are cheap...no one can affrod to insure them. if you could you would get a better car.
 
I have a 1.1 clio, insurance for me is £1900 a year.
 
1.8 Focus, 2 years no claims and my insurance just went up from £1200 to £1500 :S

Just get a 1.0 for a few years to build up some no claims, then think about getting a proper good car
 
Rover 25 1.4 cost me £1600 to insure in my first year, was a decent car as well. Definetly do pass plus as well, should only take 4-5 lessons to pass and my instructor told me it could cut insurance costs by upto 20% Tesco reduces alot if you have pass plus, my mate had £400 off his insurance due to having pass plus.
 
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Umm, first car meganne 1.6 was 4 years old i was 22 £640 1 years no cliams as was named driver (love direct line)
second car 2 year old Astra 1.9 CTDI (special x pack model with in house tuning chip so up to 180 bhp) 23 £845. 2 years no cliams.
 
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1st Car 1.6 Vauxhall Cavalier when I was 18, £800 insurance but that was 10 years ago
2nd Car 1.8TD Ford Escort when I was 20, £1200 insurance
3rd Car 2.5 V6 Vauxhall Cavalier when I was 21, £2500 insurance went like **** off a shovel had it de-resticted and it did 158mph
since then I have had 2 more cavaliers, a Citroen Xsara, a BMW 520, a Nissan Bluebird, a Rernault Savana, a Peugeot 406 and a Vauxhall Omega 2.5TD
I also had a Vauxhall Vectra Sri 130 which I wrote off big style.
My current car is a Ford Mondeo 2.0 TD
 
First car: Audi A3 - Was insured in my dads name though
Secod: Audi S5: Same applies
Third: Jag Xf. Same applies
Should be getting a new car in January, want a Maserati but I need to insure this for myself and I am having trouble finding any quotes.
 
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