Car choices for 17 year olds

[STALLED]

Fiat Panda - new enough, surely must be on the cheap side to insure?

[lozz]

Fiat is not bad on insurance.

Seicento is slightly cheaper than the panda (both same engine's )

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Fiat is not bad on insurance.

Seicento is slightly cheaper than the panda (both same engine's )

I think a wheelbarrow has a better NCAP rating than a Scicento...

[trufflehunt]

strangest thing is ive got 17 years no claims bonus I`m currently driving a 53 plate mondeo ghia tdci and my insurance fully comp is £505 a year and I am struggling with that

Your profile says 'courier driver'......

Looks to me like that probably explains most of your high premium. You're in a risky business.

[trufflehunt]

Trem, we found the cheapest for my 17 year old was LV, my son is now 20 and the cheapest is still LV

He started off at £4,000 and is now down to £900.

Micra 1.0 at first, now a Grande Punto 1.2 petrol.

He just got a quote for a brand new Volvo, £1,100.

My first car, at age 21 cost me £95. It was a 14 year old Riley. I worked my student vacation, labouring, and bought and insured the car myself.
My second car, at 22, cost me £300. It was an 11 year old Triumph TR4. I earned the money as a bus driver in Glasgow.
My 3rd or 4th car, at 24, cost me £460. It was an 8 year old Triumph TR5. By then I had a job which was the basis of most of my working life.

For all of the above, in the early/mid 70's,, I had to hunt around for decent insurance quotes.

Someone barely out of his teens, talking about a brand new Volvo, attracts little sympathy from me about high insurance premiums.

What has happened in the last 20 or 30 years is that the relative cost of a new car has gone down. For example, a brand new
Vauxhall Astra in 1981 cost me £5,000. The roughly equivalent model today costs about £15,000.
In 1981 the average wage was round about £5,000 a year. Today it's about £25,000.

Insurance costs for young drivers, proportionatley, have increased.
Overall, in my opinion, young drivers aren't in any particularly bad place.

[lozz]

Fiat is not bad on insurance.

Seicento is slightly cheaper than the panda (both same engine's )

I think a wheelbarrow has a better NCAP rating than a Scicento...

yeah true,the n'cap rating aint good on them,

panda is better but not much better. beats a 406 tho

[scotty73]

Took me a while but i found the perfect car for a lad his age.... Show him this.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WICKID-SICK-F ... 5965595%26

[jasper5]

Trem, we found the cheapest for my 17 year old was LV, my son is now 20 and the cheapest is still LV

He started off at £4,000 and is now down to £900.

Micra 1.0 at first, now a Grande Punto 1.2 petrol.

He just got a quote for a brand new Volvo, £1,100.

My first car, at age 21 cost me £95. It was a 14 year old Riley. I worked my student vacation, labouring, and bought and insured the car myself.
My second car, at 22, cost me £300. It was an 11 year old Triumph TR4. I earned the money as a bus driver in Glasgow.
My 3rd or 4th car, at 24, cost me £460. It was an 8 year old Triumph TR5. By then I had a job which was the basis of most of my working life.

For all of the above, in the early/mid 70's,, I had to hunt around for decent insurance quotes.

Someone barely out of his teens, talking about a brand new Volvo, attracts little sympathy from me about high insurance premiums.

What has happened in the last 20 or 30 years is that the relative cost of a new car has gone down. For example, a brand new
Vauxhall Astra in 1981 cost me £5,000. The roughly equivalent model today costs about £15,000.
In 1981 the average wage was round about £5,000 a year. Today it's about £25,000.

Insurance costs for young drivers, proportionatley, have increased.
Overall, in my opinion, young drivers aren't in any particularly bad place.

My first car bought with money I saved working as an apprentice mechanic on £5 per week at age 17 in 1971, was a 1966 Triumph Herald which cost me £40.

You misunderstood what my son was doing quoting for a brand new Volvo! He was comparing what it would cost to insure the Volvo to his 2007 Fiat Punto, the result being that it costs almost the same to insure a New Volvo as it does a 2007 Fiat Punto....very odd, don't you think?

The cost of insurance nowadays with all the scammers around, especially in our post code area, is directly related to post code.

I have been refused a motor trade policy because of my post code more than once

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Took me a while but i found the perfect car for a lad his age.... Show him this.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WICKID-SICK-F ... 5965595%26

Brilliant!

[GingerMagic]

Took me a while but i found the perfect car for a lad his age.... Show him this.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WICKID-SICK-F ... 5965595%26

Brilliant!

I think I might by this car for myself - might put some hairs on my chest........

[lozz]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WICKID-SICK-F ... 5965595%26

oh ffs someone burn it olde stinky chav bus.

ialways thought sick meant like sick as in puke ..these hippies heads are mashed these days.

[lozz]

heres something better.

http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-moto ... to-content

[lozz]

w.t.f ?

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[trem1]

bear in mind he is funding this totally on his own so it's kinda got to be a £500 car

[OllieNZ]

How about an older yaris? They seem to be cheap enough and being a toyota should be bomb proof (well mechanicaly any way)