Avi

From Evo:

>In article <a1fe2v$k92$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>, Richard
><richard@uten.co.uk>
>writes:
>>I am 17, and from the UK,
>>I am currently running a car, that serves me fine, but it lack's the
>badge,
>>it's a Ford Escort Cosworth,
>>
>>but.....the ferrari Badge is missing,
>>
>>I am a student, and do a few odd job's to earn a little cash, and my dad
>is
>>going to buy me a ferrari 355 i think it was, but i am worried about my
>>insurance, it is already £1000 a year,
>>
>>what insurance group is a Ferrari, and how much do you think my payments
>>will go up per annum ?
>>
>>Richard


[Edited by Avi - 3/17/2002 2:27:11 PM]

P1Fanatic

I think it would probably move up to Insurance Group Fu*k Off!

Edited to say: moving up from Insurance Group 17yr-Old-Paying-1k-On-A-Cossie-My-****!

[Edited by P1Fanatic - 3/17/2002 2:40:52 PM]

Brendan Hughes

If I was his dad, I wouldn't buy him a Ferrari until he knew how to use an apostrophe.



Mate of mine at university was given a 308 GTS for his 18th (mid-1980s). But he usually drove to Uni in his Porsche 911. Which he later traded in for a Porsche Turbo.

Absolutely rolling in it, and the funny thing was, he was one of the nicest people you could hope to meet - still wanted to pass his degree to get a good job, friendly, no chip etc etc. God works in mysterious ways.

BJH

Claudius

You could expect to pay something like £3,000...

But I have to say a F355 is:
1/ old
2/ slow (380 bhp for 1.7 tons or more), very slow for the money
3/ nice badge. If that's what you want it for, you are just like the old people driving them!

Katana

So how is it again that I'm paying 1150 quid for my scooby on 3rd party only???!

Avi

I don't know... email and ask him , If he even exists

alexf

I work in the IT department of a well known insurance company (the one with the tallest building in Manchester ) and a while ago our on-line motor quote system crashed. After studying the system logs for hours to find the cause, it was dicovered that someone had been trying to obtain a quote for an 18 year old male, who had just passed his driving test, for a brand new 911 Turbo. The quote system crashed because it can "only" handle a maximum premium of £9,999.99 One of the call-centre staff wanted to see how much he would be charged for his dream car if he ever won the lottery

Avi

I'm insured with them... and I've had a few daft quotes from your lot .

scoobyster

Don't be ridiculous!!
I'm 17 and drive a 1.6GL Impreza (group 10) that's registered and insured in my mum's name with me named on the policy. That's £1100! Lowest quote I had for my car in my name was £3500, group 10 remember and I did a lot of searching around, had some saying ~£6k and many saying "NO!".
I guess a Cossie is group 17ish like a Scooby turbo, and a 355 is group 20 without a doubt. You do the math

47 NAT

Sounds like it should end in....they all lived happily ever after!

Oh and Cossys are group 20.

Nath

Brendan Hughes

Hang on a sec...

Is this guy or what?

alexf

>>> I've had a few daft quotes from your lot

They refused to provide a quote for me, saying that I am the "wrong side of 30 for that type of car"

I cannot beleive that a lad that age can insure ANY car for around a grand, let alone a Cosworth, which is why so many don't bother with insurance [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Hos

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[Edited by Hos - 3/18/2002 3:38:50 AM]

dogmaul

i had a quote of 14k for a civic vti but a quote of only 1,200 for a r33 skyline gt-r thats for a 21 yearold with 2 years no claims the skyline quote was from tesco and the civic one was from some broker

[Edited by dogmaul - 3/18/2002 10:25:15 AM]

Dream Weaver

I have been quoted recently for an MR2 Turbo - £10,418 FC

Wouldn't mind but I am 29 this year, 5 years NCD, no claims,crashes,convictions etc and already drive an NA MR2. [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Takes the p1ss!!!

DW

NumptyScrub

WTF! I am 28, 5yrs NCB, and got quoted between 2k and 2.8k for fully comp insurance on a Vreg Evo 6 GSR. Needless to say I took the 2k...

Why would they quote you that for an MR2? How modded was it?

Derek

Seamus300

I had similar, £8,400 for an Evo7, full no claims, 29 no accidents or convictions, garaged with tracker.

Theres no feckin way a 17 year old will get 1K insurance on a Grp20 Cossie, not in a million. Blokes obviously bored and having a laugh..

Mark Jackson

I won a Golf GTI in 1988 (when I was 18) and they wanted 3.5 even then !
I won it in the Daily Mirror and they didnt provide insurance, in fact I shouldnt have been allowed to claim it as I wasnt quite 18, dont tell them they may want it back and my dad will be well pissed of about it as he still has it !

Now pay 427 for Volvo T5 estate with full ncd and 196 for pug 309, oh the benefits of being over 30.

DavidRB

Maybe that was how much it cost to be put as a named driver on daddy's insurance?

DavidBrown

1. A '99 355 isn't THAT old IMO (sure, was made from '94 onwards)
2. 0-60 in 4.6s isn't slow. The car actually weighs 1350kg
3. True, nice badge. I know quite a few sub-30yr olds with them.

Could you be more wrong ?

[Edited by DavidBrown - 3/18/2002 3:37:40 PM]

Dream Weaver

Derek - that is for a standard MR2 Turbo - Jap import of course.

For the similar engined Celica GT4, they quoted me £623 fc, just cos it is a UK model. They *only* want just over £700 for a UK Scoob Turbo.

DW

mattski2

I think the little tw@t is just winding you up ! £1000 for an Escort Cosworth @ 17? don't think so...