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What’s a bargain basement car that’s super cheap to insure? I really want to get something small and simple but really don’t give two hoots what it is, the main thing is cheap insurance. I’ll probably only do about 2000 miles a year in it.

So far

Ford focus £855
Ford fiesta £717
Skoda Fabian £689
VW polo £635
Smart for2 £585

I’m assuming it won’t be cheap, but how much is a MINI Clubman for comparison ?

My mito is cheap, but I don’t live anywhere near London.

My i3s is £161 to insure.

Off your list I really fancy a Smart For2 just to try. I am busting to park at 90' to the kerb

VW Fox, though the random way insurance goes it wouldn't surprise if you could insure a Passat or Phaeton for less.

Gavster wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2023 7:27 pm What’s a bargain basement car that’s super cheap to insure? I really want to get something small and simple but really don’t give two hoots what it is, the main thing is cheap insurance. I’ll probably only do about 2000 miles a year in it.

So far

Ford focus £855
Ford fiesta £717
Skoda Fabian £689
VW polo £635
Smart for2 £585

Fuck! My M135i is only £260 fully comp protected!

C1, Panda, i10, Aygo, Micra.

Thanks for the ideas! I’ll do a load of quote updates later

Something from this list of entries in today’s Rushmoor Targa.

My renaultsport twingo is pretty cheap

Gavster wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2023 7:27 pm What’s a bargain basement car that’s super cheap to insure? I really want to get something small and simple but really don’t give two hoots what it is, the main thing is cheap insurance. I’ll probably only do about 2000 miles a year in it.

So far

Ford focus £855
Ford fiesta £717
Skoda Fabian £689
VW polo £635
Smart for2 £585

MINI Clubman £777 (and that looks like your kind of MINI project!)

integrale_evo wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2023 7:38 pm My mito is cheap, but I don’t live anywhere near London.

Mito £845

nuttinnew wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2023 8:26 pm VW Fox, though the random way insurance goes it wouldn't surprise if you could insure a Passat or Phaeton for less.

Silver Fox £606
Passat £790

Zonda_ wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2023 9:29 pm

Gavster wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2023 7:27 pm What’s a bargain basement car that’s super cheap to insure? I really want to get something small and simple but really don’t give two hoots what it is, the main thing is cheap insurance. I’ll probably only do about 2000 miles a year in it.

So far

Ford focus £855
Ford fiesta £717
Skoda Fabian £689
VW polo £635
Smart for2 £585

Fuck! My M135i is only £260 fully comp protected!

M135i £1858

Mito Man wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2023 9:44 pm C1, Panda, i10, Aygo, Micra.

C1 £601

Panda £749

Clio GT £785

Suffice to say it looks like insurance bottoms out around £600 for a range of small, light, little runaround.

After reviewing all that lot, a Smart For2 does feel like one of the most appealing, just for a laugh. As long as I can get a bike onto it somehow...

And you'll give off Big Dick Alpha vibes

MINI 1.4?
Daihatsu Sirion or Charade 1.0?
A2?

I thought the 'trick' (sorry, it's 2023, 'hack') with insurance was to buy big old rare barges that didn't really have any accident history. All the small cars have been usually bounced around buy youngsters.

Tried Volvo's?

My parents neighbour kid imported some big old American thing when he was 18 which was far cheaper than anything else he could insure.