View Full Version : 1.4 Nova sri, good choice for a first motor?
Can't decide, had a friend had had a gsi and he woke up every winter morning hoping it'd start not sure if he was exaggerating but id appreciate suggestions and opinions.
yeah very good engines. suprisingly quick for a 1.4, if you can afford the insurance go for it
ianglanister
25-02-08, 11:13 PM
insurance will not be cheap matey i looked at it last yr for my first car, (was 17) im now 18 still on my dads with him on 9 yrs no claims not protected, ive been driving 1 yr just(22nd it was a yr) still on a 1.2 carb at 986 a yr third party fire and theft, all depends really if ur on your own (if you are will not over ?2k would imagen) also depends on your area if its a high risk area or not, the best website i found was www.moneysupermarket.com (http://www.moneysupermarket.com) for insurance quotes id try on there matey good but and if not a 1.4sri get a 1.2 carb they are not bad for a 1.2 and decent engines keep us posted matey. Ian
smcgsi16v
25-02-08, 11:13 PM
^^^^Mine was surprisingly quck. Wish I still had it, very good little car, much better than my previous 1.4 SR. Its the whole mk2 thing, better dash and better looks.
(waits for a tongue lashing from the mk1 lovers)
Break alot? I only have half a knowledge about motors and how they work.
If you can afford the insurance then yeah go for it. Nice cars and pretty quick for a new driver/first car.
Insurance group 7, compare that to 10 of the GSi and you have yourself a decent trade off of performance and cost.
Multipoint injection too so you shouldn't have carb icing and cold start problems. If you do have any problems then there's always people on hand here to give advice, and they're a pretty basic car anyway.
insurance will not be cheap matey i looked at it last yr for my first car, (was 17) im now 18 still on my dads with him on 9 yrs no claims not protected
Does you dad not have his own car? :confused:
Odd, I expected it to be higher I was willing to pay 3000+ (monthly). I just got quoted 2.5k under my own name third party fire theft, a mate pays 3.2k on his 1.4 quicksilver and it's a group lower than the nova.
edit: quoted by qwik-fit by the way, with a free mot, woop!
Already decided anyway, gunna buy one - when I find one. Thanks for the opinions chaps helped a bunch. ;)
Odd, I expected it to be higher I was willing to pay 3000+ (monthly). I just got quoted 2.5k under my own name third party fire theft, a mate pays 3.2k on his 1.4 quicksilver
:eek: :eek: :eek:
Where do you kids get your money from these days, I remember when I was 17 I paid ?600 to insure my first car and that was considered expensive! lol
Mental note to self: Start own business as insurance broker/underwriter specialising in young drivers. Clearly there's lots of money to be made :D
[edit] As an aside, you'll probably find the Quicksilver is more expensive because its a particularly desirable/common model for young drivers (in terms of Novas, the desirable/common models were 1.2s and 1.3SRs) so the claim rate is unusually high for them. I would assume the claim rate on a 1.4SRi nova is relatively low, hence the (relatively!) decent cost..
im now 18 still on my dads with him on 9 yrs no claims not protected,
"just frontin"... hope you dont need to claim and they void your policy for you being the main driver when you arent insured to be so.
Jim Mcrae
26-02-08, 12:39 PM
Did you have a CBT/scoot?? My mate had an astra Si for a first car (uses the same engine as the nova sri), and with with bike no claims and a pass plus he was paying about 800 on it, that was a bloody good price
craig green
26-02-08, 01:01 PM
I cant get over the insurance costs for younguns these days!
Like Jack said, where do you get the money from??
SRi would make a great car for anyone really, though I question why you need a sporty model/SRi as a first car.... learn to drive & master the roads in a shed (think Fiesta or Corsa) then buy a Nova when you have learnt some roadcraft & dinged up the Fiesta & got a years no claims.
TBh, on reflection my 1st car (1.2 Nova) is the most fun I've had in a car.
Matt2107
26-02-08, 01:10 PM
Like Jack said, where do you get the money from??
Thieving, boot legging stolen goods, "mild" drug sales, prostitution, selling downloaded dvds.... stealing from the parents.
:D
Insurance for young drivers I reckon has increased by at least 3 fold in the 7 years I've been driving.
My old 1.2 was ?700 a year or thereabouts with no experience and zero no claims.
chimp007_uk
26-02-08, 01:43 PM
i'm only 22, but i had a 1 litre nova as my first car, fully comp as a provisional driver it was ?600 :)
as craig said, your first ca ris always the best and most fun... why you need a "faster" car when you've just passed your test?
i had that car for a 2years and it never failed me. till it poor end when some ar$ehole shunted me from behind...
you've got many a year ahead of you to get faster cars... and i don't see how you can spend ?3k on insurance on a car thats not worth that lol
?600 was enough when i was learning, there is no way i could have afforded ?3k, you got generous parents??
My old 1.2 was ?700 a year or thereabouts with no experience and zero no claims.
My first car was a 903cc Fiat Uno which cost me ?650 to insure - I could have had a Nova (there was a 1.0 Mk1 for sale locally at the time iirc), but the insurance would have been too expensive (read: affordable, but more than I wanted to pay for a car of that value. Do people even think like that these days? Or is it just "I have to insure it whatever the cost" lol). Oh and Novas were for boy racers lol
....although my sister did have a B-reg red Nova Swing as a first car.... then a certain J-reg red Mk2... then moved onto a Saxo VTR. Hmm.
craig green
26-02-08, 03:13 PM
I was first on the road at 19 years old, Leaf Green, B reg 1.2L (rusted to feck). ?640 TPFT.
had so much fun in that car & learnt road craft & how to drive a Nova quickly, aswell as maintain & mod it subtly. I also stuffed it into a grass verge on my 1st night on the road. Not an accident but difficulty strting it on choke..... make of that what you will.
needing a modded car is just bred into teenagers nowadays. Feck knows why, its over rated this modding lark!
I cant get over the insurance costs for younguns these days!
Like Jack said, where do you get the money from??
SRi would make a great car for anyone really, though I question why you need a sporty model/SRi as a first car.... learn to drive & master the roads in a shed (think Fiesta or Corsa) then buy a Nova when you have learnt some roadcraft & dinged up the Fiesta & got a years no claims.
TBh, on reflection my 1st car (1.2 Nova) is the most fun I've had in a car.
Money from work, and for me wanting a sri I suppose I have a need for speed not that i'll be breaking any speed limits on public roads or anything, and there's alot of competition where I live on certain nights etc, if you know what I mean. :wtf:
raymond
26-02-08, 06:09 PM
id highly reccomend the sri i have one and i love it
the amount of people that keep telling me to put a valver in is unreal but i love the fuel consuption cheap ins etc etc on the sri lol
yeh its just getting one, very hard to find, any help appreciated!
lol damo put a valver in it haha...
raymond
26-02-08, 06:18 PM
yep your right there one on pistonheads a white one standard if thats any good to you
pends how far your willing to travel too
lol at carl
small block is the way forward carl
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