Cheapest Car for a 18 Year old Male to insure?

You can get SLIGHTLY better cars for insurance, but you will probably end up paying a lot for the car. For example the cheapest Citroen C1 on ebay is £2,550, whereas you can pick up a Corsa for under a grand. Easily. A '98 you can get for 500 if you look hard enough. I got my '02 1.0l last October for 800. I love it, a great little car. Insurance was 2700 for me (Elephant), but I had just passed. Next year it is 1200 for me personally Holding a license for a year really drives down the price, wish I'd realised before XD 1800 does seem decent for an 18 year old.

Make sure you look at different models when you choose which car too, as some Corsa 1.0l were over £3000, and mine, because its a 'Corsa Club' was the cheapest I could find. Even cheaper than the older cars.

By the way, I was 18 when I took out my insurance too.

In relation to the thread: OLD VW Beetles are DIRT cheap on insurance, but its not really worth it because they're either a pile of crap, or expensive.

A Reliant Robin ?

Cheers mate for the response, appreciated. I would go for the co-op, but dont want to be stalked, and we're young, wanna drive fast sometimes, not drive like old granny's. I might aswell wait til i am 2 years passed, then take out a quote of 1300, my dads current insurance policy is finishing in october, so im going to have to wait for him.

Til then im going to be on a mates traders policy as a named driver. I have an option to take out a year policy as a named drive on a motor trader policy, for any car under 2.0L, for £1000 the year . But if i get stopped by police, i have to say that im on business e.g. going to work etc. Seems all legit as i have two other mates that are already on the traders, and get stopped occasionally, show the plod the certificates, and off they go . What do you think?

Hello, i've had two good quotes so far, i have zero ncb, and been passed for 13 months.

Co-Op Young Driverz - Honda Civic 1.5 Vtec Sport - As a named driver - £1395. Just dont like the smart box thing controlling you premiums every 3 months

Elephant.co.uk - 98' Vauxhall Corsa 1.0L - Me As policy holder, and 3 named drivers - £1800

I dont like corsa's much, and want the quote to be cheaper atleast up to 1500, i know it can be done. As this time last week i was getting quotes of 21K, tried hard, and got one for 1800. What is an even cheaper car to insure than the corsa?

Thanks, how much did you pay for your first year of driving insurance? Is my quote of 1800 good? Thanks

Cheers mate for the response, appreciated. I would go for the co-op, but dont want to be stalked, and we're young, wanna drive fast sometimes, not drive like old granny's. I might aswell wait til i am 2 years passed, then take out a quote of 1300, my dads current insurance policy is finishing in october, so im going to have to wait for him.

Til then im going to be on a mates traders policy as a named driver. I have an option to take out a year policy as a named drive on a motor trader policy, for any car under 2.0L, for £1000 the year . But if i get stopped by police, i have to say that im on business e.g. going to work etc. Seems all legit as i have two other mates that are already on the traders, and get stopped occasionally, show the plod the certificates, and off they go . What do you think?

Cheers mate for the response, appreciated. I would go for the co-op, but dont want to be stalked, and we're young, wanna drive fast sometimes, not drive like old granny's. I might aswell wait til i am 2 years passed, then take out a quote of 1300, my dads current insurance policy is finishing in october, so im going to have to wait for him.

Til then im going to be on a mates traders policy as a named driver. I have an option to take out a year policy as a named drive on a motor trader policy, for any car under 2.0L, for £1000 the year . But if i get stopped by police, i have to say that im on business e.g. going to work etc. Seems all legit as i have two other mates that are already on the traders, and get stopped occasionally, show the plod the certificates, and off they go . What do you think?

Yeah, I drive safely, but the speed limit really isn't that neccessary (I mean, I can safely go 40-50mph in a 20mph near me, even police do haha) so I wouldn't want to get a box, seems really limiting. It would drive me mad. Yeah my mate is on his dad's business' insurance, cheap as chips for him, never had any problems. You could get a MUCH better car, performance-wise, if you don't have to get a 1.0! There are much bigger fish to fry compared to proving you don't work somewhere, they should just let you go. Would you be able to prove you were working in the event of an accident, though? What if you had a crash at like 2am for example, how would you prove you were making a business trip?

But yeah I'd definately go for that if I had the option. A no claims bonus is good but the main saver for our age is to just wait till we're older imo haha. Happy driving

1.2 Polo E's are quite cheap, cheaper than the 1.0 I found. I got a 1200 quote (fully comp) at 22, though I have only been passed two months.

IMO just try avoid cars driven by boy racers, I ended up getting a 1.6 307 and it costs me 1200 a year, where as entry level Saxos and the like were around 3,000 lol.

Young drivers speeding is why premiums are so high. What I dot like about those policies are they limit the time of day you can drive which worries me in case I need to drive somewhere as an emergency.

Also be careful with being a named driver, firstly because you aren't building your no claims on most policies so when you do become the main driver the price will shoot up dramatically, secondly insurance companies are clamping down on people fronting having some as a main driver who isn't the main driver just to make it cheaper.

It sucks but I am 3 years driving now and my insurance is around 600.

Just wait till you crash. They will grill every last detail and all of a sudden, you'll not only have crashed but they'll void their liability and you'll a) be faced with the costs and b) be done for DWI. Driving with falsified or inaccurate insurance is akin to driving with none at all, because as soon as you crash it'll all come out. Loads of people try to get around it but it makes no sense to try and save a few hundred quid by driving with false insurance when it's no different to having none.

It's because of people that lie to the police and try to get round it that insurance prices are so high.

But then again, it's because prices are so high that people try find cheaper ways, or not pay at all. What can you do?

I'm paying £1800 on my new Rio. It's 1.25 for goodness sakes but cos I'm 19 and male the price rockets.


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