Young driver car options

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I dread to think how much something like that would be to insure for a new driver especially a caged modified one
Small one's are more juicy

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I remember a number of years ago a chap bought his son a brand new Escort cossie - kiddy was 18 ... insurance was 44k !! .. lol.

Basically I'd search Autotrader for cars in the ins group 1 and 2 - they also normally have next to nothing with regards tax on them as the emissions are low.

Insurance group 1 - tax B
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Or a VW Fox
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Or how about a Lupo.
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cheers guys, as i will be picking up all the running cost of the car i can just about stomach up to a grand for insurance .

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Good luck with that Jas, when I had my mini (pre modifying) it was about

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Pug 306 TD.....I had one (1996 3dr) for many years as a daily driver/cheap runabout, it was also the first car that my wife drove when she passed her test.
It was a group 4 (not sure how the latest insurance tariffs work). It was cheap to insure, cheap to maintain, cheap to run (50mpg+). We sold it a couple of years ago to a work colleague with nearly 200k on the clock. Despite it's faded white paint and a few dents and scratches, it's still going strong
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all over it, and when it started up, the noise!!!, I could feel my teeth rattling!!!"

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It is a mine field Jase. We ended up getting my daughter a '98, 5 door (cheaper than the 3door) 1.1 saxo which costs a little over
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Post by RX7 »

Yep as said before put your wife on the insurance, it will make a huge difference.

But I guess with the scrappage scheme a few years ago its cleared out a load of the first driver cars :(
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