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First car advise (cheap car with cheap insurance?)

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  • 21-09-2014 1:31am
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    xXGhostFartXx
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭


    Hi, I am wondering if anyone has any advise on what is a good first car (that's pretty cheap... with cheap insurance also :P ) Any tips or advise welcome :)

    Looking for a car with a pretty small engine size that is also cheap to run ( maybe 1.6 or less ) preferably a hatchback.
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    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    Daewoo Matiz.

    Insurance is never specific.

    I got a BMW 320ci as my first car and it was cheaper to insure than a Bora 1.4 because fcuk logic.


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    xXGhostFartXx
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭xXGhostFartXx


    Sobanek wrote: »
    Daewoo Matiz.

    Insurance is never specific.

    I got a BMW 320ci as my first car and it was cheaper to insure than a Bora 1.4 because fcuk logic.

    looks like a nice car :) but it is a 2.2 so i probably wont be able to afford to keep it running :'(


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    bazz26
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    What sort of budget do you have?


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    xXGhostFartXx
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭xXGhostFartXx


    Its not set in stone but id say about 1500 max for the car alone


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    fmcg_scribe
    Registered Users Posts: 564 ✭✭✭fmcg_scribe


    xXGhostFartXx wrote: »
    looks like a nice car :) but it is a 2.2 so i probably wont be able to afford to keep it running :'(

    My first car was a BMW 316. I was in my mid-thirties and the first year of car insurance was rough because I was on a provisional licence and had no NCB built up on other cars. Obviously, if I had bought a 1,000 cc or less car, life would have been easier. I was advised by brokers that engine size rather than make and model was the cause of my high premium.


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    Martinet76
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    xXGhostFartXx wrote: »
    Hi, I am wondering if anyone has any advise on what is a good first car (that's pretty cheap... with cheap insurance also :P ) Any tips or advise welcome :)

    Looking for a car with a pretty small engine size that is also cheap to run ( maybe 1.6 or less ) preferably a hatchback.

    Anything over a 08 cheap to run ford fousc


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    Mycroft H
    Registered Users Posts: 9,316 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Ford Fiesta, Renault Clio, Toyota Yaris, Nissan Micra etc. You won't really go far wrong with any of them.


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