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Old Mar 23, 2006 | 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by drft_wannabe
i just bought a 2001 jetta and my insurance dropped $350 a year from my 1996 sunfire.. pretty gay since i now have full coverage when my sunfire didnt have anything. anyway, for full coverage i my jetta is at $1558 a year and im 20. my sunfire was $1900 (more than my car is worth).

i also checked out the infiniti g20 and that was really cheap too. it will be in the same price range as the sentra SE-R spec v.
Im sooooo dissapointed in you choosing the Shetta over the G-dub .

If you where a real trooper you would buy a Metro.
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Old Mar 23, 2006 | 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by B18C5-EG
Im sooooo dissapointed in you choosing the Shetta over the G-dub .

If you where a real trooper you would buy a Metro.
So a Shetta is a Jetta w/ a Scirocco front end right!?! Because a Getta is a Jetta w/ a Golf front end. Must look sorta odd.
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Old Mar 23, 2006 | 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by boobs
i'm 21 and pay $88 per month on my evo. my insurance dropped over $1000 when i hit 21. i paid 4 times as much at 18 for my 03 civic si.
I hope that happens to me I turn 21 in august.... I pay around 1920 a year.. 160 a month...
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Old Mar 24, 2006 | 09:35 AM
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insurance companies use whats called an ISO symbol to rate your car. wich means an outside companie does the ratings, and insurance companies pay them to use the ratings. the four things they look at are the liability rating, comprehensive rating, collision rating, and injury rating. liability rating = how much damage it will do to another car if it hits it, usually based on wieght/construction/size, this is the reason SUV's are high on insurance. Comp rating = how often the car is stolen, which is the reason honda's are so high. coll rating = how expensive is it to fix the car. injury rating = how safe is your car for the occupants.

in my experience, saturns are the cheapest. they dont do alot of damage to other cars, they are not stolen often, they are cheap to fix, and they do well in crash tests.
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Originally Posted by Troux
This is the internet. You're just supposed to talk up whatever you do know as if you're a salesman for it. i.e. I drive a Supra and a Corolla therefore 2JZ is the greatest and so is the 4A and I don't care about anything else because it's all crap since I don't have it. I also have a stack of $20 bills in front of me, therefore 20>50 and 20>100 and 20>1000. $20 bill FTW.
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Old Mar 24, 2006 | 09:36 AM
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Originally Posted by myltwon
some honda fanboy will jump in and say the only reason civics cost more to insure is because geico knows about vtec
haha, no, its because of the theft rating on them.
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Originally Posted by Troux
This is the internet. You're just supposed to talk up whatever you do know as if you're a salesman for it. i.e. I drive a Supra and a Corolla therefore 2JZ is the greatest and so is the 4A and I don't care about anything else because it's all crap since I don't have it. I also have a stack of $20 bills in front of me, therefore 20>50 and 20>100 and 20>1000. $20 bill FTW.
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Old Mar 24, 2006 | 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by myltwon
it pays to buy american I guess, but oh well some honda fanboy will jump in and say the only reason civics cost more to insure is because geico knows about vtec

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Old Mar 25, 2006 | 04:35 AM
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Originally Posted by boobs
i'm 21 and pay $88 per month on my evo. my insurance dropped over $1000 when i hit 21. i paid 4 times as much at 18 for my 03 civic si.
Is this on liability? $88.00 a month seems ridiculous at the age of 21 for even an evo. Even with a clean driving record at that age there's no way. I was paying $113 a month at the age of 18 for a 1994 Mitsubishi Mirage and had a clean record. If your paying $88.00 it must be under your mom or dads insurance policy. I pay $207 on my Eclipse and that covers everything... full coverage, any modifications to the car, etc and I'm 21 and have Progressive. So I don't know about an 2003 Evo owner paying $88.00 for Full Coverage at the age of 21. Either you went to one of those mom and pops insurance shacks that aren't well know, or the car is actually under your parents name and under their insurance policy.
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Old Mar 25, 2006 | 05:44 AM
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Originally Posted by JDMevo
Is this on liability? $88.00 a month seems ridiculous at the age of 21 for even an evo. Even with a clean driving record at that age there's no way. I was paying $113 a month at the age of 18 for a 1994 Mitsubishi Mirage and had a clean record. If your paying $88.00 it must be under your mom or dads insurance policy. I pay $207 on my Eclipse and that covers everything... full coverage, any modifications to the car, etc and I'm 21 and have Progressive. So I don't know about an 2003 Evo owner paying $88.00 for Full Coverage at the age of 21. Either you went to one of those mom and pops insurance shacks that aren't well know, or the car is actually under your parents name and under their insurance policy.
+1....There is no way, that is way to cheap. Even if it is under your parents policy it still would be more than that cause your a listed driver for that vehicle.

I've never heard of insurance going down $1000 when you turn 21 usually the age is 25 and I don't think it would be $1000.

I work for a insurance company I know how it works.
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Old Mar 25, 2006 | 06:35 PM
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The cheapest car to insurue is a Saturn!
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