cheap group 1 cars

[turbojolt]

Alright guys and girls I'm looking for a cheap and even cheaper to insure car for my bird just needs some thing to get to town and stuff in cheers for any help


P.s was quoted 2.6k on a 1.2 nova so need something cheaper to insure then that I can go down as the main driver as I will be using it loads as well to save the nova when its finished

[Mike]

Corsa B 1.0 12v, insurance group 3 same as a Ka.

[turbojolt]

Do you know if them little fiat chinq are cheap the ones under 1ltr lol

[Alex J]

id go for a mercedes sl63 amg

[MattBrown]

Insurance has gone absolutely mental.

Dave on here paid £4800 for his 1.0 nova.

Loads of people are paying upwards of 2k.

[scott.parker]

How is this a project can i ask?

[turbojolt]

**** sorry guys I'm on my phone could have sworn I clicked insurance could this be moved? Please

[Alex J]

**** sorry guys I'm on my phone could have sworn I clicked insurance could this be moved? Pleaseonly if we can neg rep you:dlol

[John]

Citroën 2cv.

[turbojolt]

only if we can neg rep you:dlol

It's going to happen anyways I can sence it Lmao

[Jack]

How old is she?

Even with a top spec postcode and various other cheap options, the best I could get on a group 1 car (think it was a small engined Fiat or Toyota something iirc) was around £2k when I did a quote a while back as if I was 17. lol

[pie]

how long you been driving fella?

[turbojolt]

She is 19 and about to pass her test I'm 23 and been driving for 3 years but have no ncb due to cars never making it a year on the insurance breaking down ect but my insurance on small cars is alright now days as I have a work van ect it seems to have helped drop my premiums but now were living together I want a car to share more for the weekly shop then anything as she walks to work (its 5 mins dpwn the road) don't need to be fun just needs to be cheap to run

[Stuart]

I'd be less concerned about the insurance grouping of the car and more concerned with the 'type' of people that use them.

EG a group 1 car might initially attract yoofs who then smash them up driving the risk for 'that' car up....
Might be better to look for a group 5-10 (bear in mind groups have been shifted by 100-150% recently) car that is dirt cheap to buy and probably no more expensive to insure than the idea of a group 1

[turbojolt]

Forgot to add thanks to who ever moved the thread

[turbojolt]

So something like a 1.6 astra could be cheaper then a 1.2 nova as a example ?

[mowgli]

yes.

[turbojolt]

I never thought of that tbh but.I suppose it makes sence would all the knob jockeys smashing up novas in the 90's still affect the prices today then

[scott.parker]

Try a quote on a mk3 Astra 5 door 1.4ls or something, they must be pretty cheep to buy and cant imagine the insurance being silly, as it's not the normal everyday car of most anymore lol

[Adam]

Mk3 astras are proper expensive insure!
My old 1.4SPi mk3 (59bhp, slow as f**k) cost the same to insure as a 90hp Saxo vtr.
MK4's are cheaper to insure than mk3's, just dont buy a 2.0 eco ffs.

TD's are usually insurance friendly-ish.



Dave on here paid £4800 for his 1.0 nova.

SERIOUSLY?

[Stuart]

Mk3 astras are proper expensive insure!
My old 1.4SPi mk3 (59bhp, slow as f**k) cost the same to insure as a 90hp Saxo vtr.
MK4's are cheaper to insure than mk3's, just dont buy a 1.8/2.0/2.2 eco ffs.

TD's are usually insurance friendly-ish.


SERIOUSLY?


EFA lol

Seems spudders's 1.6 MK4 is about the best of the petrols :)

[Adam]

This is true, sure i remember him saying its on the way to the 200k mark too!!

[TeddyThom]

So something like a 1.6 astra could be cheaper then a 1.2 nova as a example ?

An almost perfect example... A friend of mine is running a 1600 Mk4... It's only a couple of hundred more than mine... And he is 18 and been driving less than me!

[Jack]

TD's are usually insurance friendly-ish.
I pay almost as much to insure the Cav as I do the GT4.

ROFLWTF:confused:

[scott.parker]

lol well i wouldn't thought the mk3 was more then the mk4! my 1.8 mk4 has been good to me tbh (touches wood) it's just she of 130k.

[Adam]

I pay almost as much to insure the Cav as I do the GT4.

ROFLWTF:confused:
My astra td was pretty much the same to insure as my 1.4 astra. :thumb:
Guess its just one of them things. When i say TD btw, i dont strictly mean GM, i know for a fact pug 306 td's are a low insurance group.

You are also comparing to two totally different motors....
I.e. would a similar spec petrol Cav be the same as your td?

Scott-Keep hold of that luck if i was you lol ;) Hopefully your engine stays reliable unlike mine (which has done less miles than yours)

Just checked on Parkers too, a mk4 1.6 16v is a lower insurance group than a 1.4 8v mk3 ;)

[turbojolt]

Wouldn't mind a nice mk4 astra

[turbojolt]

Just worked out insurance on me and her together on a 1.2 nova and it will only cost around the 1200 quid mark so that makes it a bit more affordable to get her on the road wich is all good hopefully I can find something even cheaper to insure together lol

[turbojolt]

I think stuarts point is proven here in a small way £1200 for a 1.2 nova or nearly £1400 for a 1.0ltr 12v corsa

[Bubba]

I pay almost as much to insure the Cav as I do the GT4.

ROFLWTF:confused:

they are either saying the GT4 is silly and you shouldnt be driving it....or that cav oooze awesomeness :p

ive never paid more than £1200. good old crime free cornwall hehehe


has she thought about a quad? not sure what they are like to insure though

[dannyb]

has she thought about a quad? not sure what they are like to insure though

looked into this - was the same to insure as my Audi, probably down to nowhere secure to store it and my lack of NCB for motorbikes!

[NovaBoi92]

one strange thing ive noticed, its not all down to insurance group. I mean take my nova for instance, insurance group 4? (i think) 1.2 and costs me £800 to insure. A 1.0 polo insurance group 1 is £1600, the same as a 1.6 vectra. a 2.0 ford sierra is £1200. Its confusing lol

[Jack]

they are either saying the GT4 is silly and you shouldnt be driving it....or that cav oooze awesomeness :p

ive never paid more than £1200. good old crime free cornwall hehehe
Or that the cav is ridiculously easy to steal. Which it is lol

And fook paying £1200, I was quoted that on an S14a once when I was 23 - I just laughed down the phone and asked them what the real price was lol Never paid more than half that to insure a car!

[Connor]

try a 1.6 or 1.8 8v mk3 golf, last time i checked they were dirt cheap for some reason.
And also a mk4 astra gsi is also very cheap for me lol