06-01-14, 07:34 PM
Rustyrider a lot of what you say was true in my case trying to get insured on a car but there was a middle point that took loads of research to find the balance. Too big of an engine etc or a car that is seen as perhaps large or unreliable, maybe expensive in the event of a claim made the insurance more expensive. I also found that diesels were more expensive to insure than petrol. I started trying to insure clio's, fiestas etc and it was stupid. So I went the other way, old volvo diesel estates and stuff like that which would be reliable and could carry my drums to gigs. Expensive. I then found the middle ground were things like very very common 1.4-1.6 litre petrol estates such as the ford focus 1.4 lx (most basic model), peugeot 306 estate and the Vauxhall astra estate. I didnt get a car in the end but would have gone for a focus estate and probably will do in the future although I wanted a big ass blacked out volvo just to pretend I was in the Swedish mafia :lol . Weirdly, the cheapest car I could insure was actually a land rover defender 110 which would have been awesome but they are often expensive to buy.