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Cheapest cars to insure
We look at the 15 cheapest cars to insure in the UK.
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With the new number plates now available, you might be thinking of paying a visit to your local car dealer. If so, we can tell you which cars are generally the cheapest to cover.
Insurers will usually focus on the following factors when they're deciding how to categorise a car: repair costs, price of the car, engine size and security features. Using these factors, cars are then split into 50 categories, with category one being the cheapest.
Now let's look at the 15 cheapest cars to insure. We'll start with five cars in the cheapest 'group one' section. Then we'll look at the 10 cars in group two. Within the groups, we'll order the cars alphabetically.
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19/02/2012 21:52
25/02/2012 23:44
As someone who works in the insurance industry it is interesting to observe the level of ignorance on this board. Premiums are high for young drivers because they drive like idiots and crash, everyone else is paying extra to fund uninsured drivers and those parasites who live the "where there is blame there is a claim."
For every £100 you pay for your premium, £60 will go on claims, £20 in commission to the broker, £18 to run the office and about £2 will be profit. There is no rip off Britain here - just a lot of bad drivers and a culture of over-claiming.
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20/02/2012 17:21
i drive a mercedes c220 and ended up with a fiesta as a courtesy car after storm damage to mine.. all i can say is it was like driving around in an underpowered lawnmower. slow cheaply built and worst of all uncomfortable on long journeys. My insurance for a large mercedes is around £350 which i think is reasonable enough. so if you want a cheap garbage car buy one shown on here. if not buy something decent and comfortable. lets face it you shouldn't be getting cheap road tax because it has a small engine your still using the road it should be on the price of fuel. that way the more miles you do the more you pay simple really.
20/02/2012 15:35
Fiesta is best of all i have 1.6 tdci zetec s great mpg 70+, Motorways 70-80 mph returns 58 mpg great to drive round town and on motorways loads of power great road holding and very sporty looking and only £20 road tax a year and very cheap insurance on a 1.6 no wonder it was top selling car in its class 10 out of 10
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20/02/2012 22:51
my car might be drab in the interior, but you can bling it up !! with chrome from korea, Chevy missed the market on this ? losing money there, plenty extra's have been added at nearly cost price on ebay and not the dealer stealer rates. belting car just wish they release a automatic for the UK market (town driving). and yep it's cheap as chips under £300 fully comp for a brand new 61 plate and free road tax as well. and she is comfortable to drive and is a town car, not a motorway cruiser, if i wanted one off them i would have kept my volvo T4 with all the toys, but it's about saving money and using the car as a tool not a toy.
27/02/2012 08:20
15/03/2012 06:34
2 years ago a certain insurance company put up our insurance from £235 fully comp to £670 the reason for this we had been hit, rear ended by another driver and therfore we had had an accident ?? what a crappy excuse so they went bye bye's were now with the AA for now.
like others there is now no point staying with the same insurer year after year as you get no loyalty discount, they just dont care anymore 
14/03/2012 22:40
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