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Old 04-20-2004, 03:00 PM   #1
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Default American car insurance?

Right, it is obvious that car insurance is cheaper over the pond, but how much cheaper?

So, if you are an American with car insurance, post your car with engine size and rough bhp along with your age e.t.c most importantly, what are you paying?

I am 21 on a 1.25 fiesta 2 years no claims bonus. Fully comp insurance with road side recovery:

£750
1,344.16 USD


In fact, sod the american bit, it would be interesting to see how insurance is different arrording to your country.

Here is a currency converter:
http://www.xe.com/ucc/
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Old 04-20-2004, 04:55 PM   #2
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20 years old, 1992 taurus SHO, 220bhp I live in Canada and pay $750 dollars per year including the 50 dollar discount for good driving.
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Old 04-20-2004, 04:59 PM   #3
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:shock: thats £420 OMG England is such a rip off
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Old 04-20-2004, 05:14 PM   #4
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01 GT Mustang 5 speed. $1,620.00 a year USD
Ohh yeah...29 years old
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No tickets no accidents.
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Old 04-20-2004, 06:02 PM   #5
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2000 Ferrari 360 Modena
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San Francisco
Clean driving record
About USD$1200 as my 2nd car
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Old 04-20-2004, 07:00 PM   #6
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im 18
citroen saxo VTR with 90hp
under my dads name and i pay £931 ($1660) a year
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Old 04-20-2004, 08:18 PM   #7
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1995 Ford Thunderbird 4.6L roughly 310hp (they think it's stock except radio) clean record male student good student discount, no claims, no tickets, $820 year
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Old 04-20-2004, 08:39 PM   #8
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98 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo 4x4 4.0 L (252 cid)
no tickets, no accidents attributed to me/ my insurance (in 99, a 99 chevy 1500 v8 broadsided me, and found to be speeding, not signaling, illegal passing, scene evasion)
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full coverage @ 1524$ usd/year
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Old 04-20-2004, 09:24 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by muffinman2002
20 years old, 1992 taurus SHO, 220bhp I live in Canada and pay $750 dollars per year including the 50 dollar discount for good driving.
What province are you in? Thats very cheap!
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Old 04-20-2004, 09:26 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by normy360
2000 Ferrari 360 Modena
400hp
San Francisco
Clean driving record
About USD$1200 as my 2nd car
In Canada Ontario Toronto Id be paying 30k for a 360...
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Old 04-20-2004, 09:46 PM   #11
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but in australia they don't look at engine size or hp rating. well not in great detail. they look at driving records, age, where you live, how its parked and the record history of the car. especailly the last detail.

one car with 2L may pay 500GDP and the other 2L car may pay double/triple if every other variable is the same.

thats why rexs are so expensive to insure because ppl steal them or stupidity overcomes common sense and crahes them.
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Old 04-20-2004, 09:51 PM   #12
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Oh and my boss pays 2400CDN thats 1800US per year for some 6000$ SUV. And that is a very cheap rate. He is 30 and this is his first car in Canada. Again this is a very cheap rate.

Another friend of my'n has a brand new jeep liberty he is 25 and pays around 7000$CDN a year.
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Old 04-20-2004, 10:15 PM   #13
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Well...I am only a secondary driver on my mom's Olds Alero (3.4 L V6...doesn't really matter), and I pay somewhere around 1100 CND/year. If I were to drive the car on my own ( I don't have any claims), it would be somewhere around 3300 CND/year=2,432.02 USD=1,366.02 GBP.

EDIT: I live in the GTA, Ontario, Canada. I wrote my insurance premium, even though I'm not American (or Canadian :shock: ), but I do live "across the pond".
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Old 04-21-2004, 02:28 AM   #14
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PL PD (property liability, property damage) is the lowest form of insurance you can get in the us.... well, at least michigan. on my previous 2 cars, it was 822$ per year, and 796$ per year usd.

i never want to have a car with such low coverage again :roll:
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Old 04-21-2004, 03:03 AM   #15
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385hp Z06, Houston TX - Full Comp/Collision/Rental etc etc
$1150 a year
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