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Smart car insurance

sweetswing · 2017-03-05 11:18:51

chatting to a friend of mine about smart cars lastnight and he said its almost impossible to get them insured , is he right ? i cant see any reason for that to be true , can anyone shed some light on it for me ?

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05-03-2017 12:18pm

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sweetswing

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chatting to a friend of mine about smart cars lastnight and he said its almost impossible to get them insured , is he right ?
i cant see any reason for that to be true , can anyone shed some light on it for me ?

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#2 05-03-2017 1:03pm
kavanada

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Probably has something to do with higher personal injury claims from crashes when they're involved.

Or lower returns on the stock market. Or shareholders wanting year-on-year growth. Or Sean Quinn's failed gamble we're all paying for. Or the westerly prevailing wind Ireland experiences.

I jest OP but at the same time, there would be a bit of truth to the above.

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#3 05-03-2017 1:19pm
Del2005

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Stick this into some online insurance quotes to see if you were getting pub talk or proper information

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/smart-car-passion/14853791

Then we can speculate.

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#4 05-03-2017 2:56pm
737max

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reports from this forum in 2010 were that it wasn't cheap to insure a Smart car.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055890133

You can insure a smart car in the german smart club for 200 euro per year and many can source cheaper insurnace than that outside the club.

There is no intrinsic reason why a smart should be expensive to insure.

They are very desirable cars to have in urban locations. In my city there are half sized parking spaces with outlines of a smart car drawn on the ground or on a sign beside the parking spaces.

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