Quote:
Originally posted by Za Ha
Well lookin for a car for the winter (nothin special cause I gotta put down a lot for my mortgage in a bit over a year) and was looking at insurance and its fuckin nuts!
Was lookin here btw
I cannot get anything insured under $8,000 a year. I am 19, with no experience but that is fuckin insane!! For something a bit niceer (a G35 lets say) I am lookin at over $12k!! 
Is it as bad for you guys?
* all prices in Canadian dollars.
|
They're fucking you over... because they can.
I'm 20, insurance due in December will be the equivalent of $1200. That's with full no claims discount, clean license, no tickets/offences, travelling 15000 miles per year (what with my university being in the next city)...
I was once going to buy an SLK230 but was quoted over £16k (around $25k) for 1 year insurance by CIS. If I want insurance for a CL600, 911, Caterham 7, etc... they will not give it to me until I'm 25.
I'm all for regular testing and practical driving assessments, in a range of places (e.g, city centre & rush hour & motorway & open country), to drive down insurance costs. It should at least flush out the overly timid drivers that cause a shitload of accidents (like those people -- mostly women and the elderly -- who try to merge into motorway traffic by driving 30MPH, ahaha). Terrible consequences.