insurance rates on performance cars summary i recently posted an article asking what kind of rates single male drivers under yrs old were paying on performance cars here s a summary of the replies i received i m not under anymore but is close enough dodge stealth rt twin turbo hp model no tickets no accidents own a house have taken defensive driving airbag abs security alarm single year decut state farm insurance this includes the additional for the umbrella policy over my car and house the base policy is the standard policy required in de after nd defensive driving course it will be less i bought the car in september the company i was with never had and accident or ticket in years quoted me hope this helps steve flynn university of delaware kevin hope i remembered your name correctly you asked about insurance for performance cars well last year i was in a similar situation before i bought my car and made the same inquiry as you age then and now car eagle talon tsi awd driving record clean state illinois cost mos i turn in may and the insurance goes down to mos also i m single and that incurs a higher rate with my company i ve got a couple other friends w awds and they pay more than i do different ins companies also so maybe i m just lucky hope the info helps dan dans jdc gss mot com motorola cellular subscriber group usa cc i m live in norman oklahoma drive an thunderbird sc have never made a claim against my insurance though i have been hit several times by negligent drivers who couldn t see stop signs or were fiddling with their radios and i have had three moving violations in the last months one for going in a one for failure to clear an intersection i still say the damn light was yellow and one for going in a which didn t go on my record my rates from state farm with a passive restraint deduction on liability deductible comprehensive and deductible collision are roughly year i was paying just over year for a escort lx james james p callison microcomputer coordinator u of oklahoma law center callison uokmax ecn uoknor edu callison aardvark ucs uoknor edu disclaimer i m not an engineer but i play one at work the forecast calls for thunder t bird sc it s a hell of a thing killing a man you take away all he has and all he s ever gonna have will munny unforgiven i am beyond the under age group but i have an experience a few years ago that might be interesting to you i owned a toyota celica gt i decided to buy myself a gift a more exotic car front runners included the toyota supra turbo and the porsche model years i narrowed it down to those two i liked the simplicity and handling and snob appeal too of driving a porsche the supra turbo was less money and had more features and performance almost a personal luxury car it had better acceleration and a higher top speed than the i was almost ready to give in to a buying impulse for the but i decided to stop by my insurance agent s office on the way i asked about what would happen to my rate with either car if you buy the supra your rate classification will be the same as the celica the celica was considered a subcompact and for that year was rated as one of the safest cars with a slight increase because the car will be years newer our lower risk division will continue to handle your account if you buy the porsche we ll have to change you to the standard higher rate company and your rate will double and if you go with a it s another story again we ll cover the rest of this year but cancel you after that but the supra is much faster than the and the is actually faster than the standard that doens t make sense that s what the book says we don t insure corvettes either for some reason the underwriters consider supras and their drivers as very traditional and conservative i eventually went with the supra for a number of reasons the porsche dealer had a nice salesman to get me interested but a tough high pressure guy in the back room at equal monthly payments it would have taken a year longer to pay for the porsche plus its higher insurance i concluded that the high insurance was related to probability of auto theft everyone s entitled to my opinion goldberg oasys dt navy mil imagination is more important than knowledge albert einstein i live in idaho when i was many years ago years i bought a trans am new insurance was about year when i turned it immediately dropped to year i had not had any accidents before or after this was strictly an age change that same rate stayed pretty much the same until i sold the car years ago my f pickup is about year less the real amazing thing is that when i woke up at age i felt so much more responsible than i was before wes for your information california male single under no moving violation alfa spider year what a bargain let s see i m single male clean driving record i have a vw corrado vr i live in san jose california i pay a year through allstate a good deal if you ask me i was thinking about getting a talon but i think the insurance is higher for a turbo sports car vs a v w honda crx si clean record in a small new mexico town was around per year age nearby city rates were x x higher than where i ve got mine insured robert robert stack institute of transportation studies univ of california irvine stack translab its uci edu mazda protege lx per year saturn sc years old state new mexico insurance state farm here is my info car toyota celica st insurance co farmer s insurance yearly insurance age date of license oct residence mountain view california no moving violations for now atleast hope this helps please post a summary if possible vijay vijay anisetti email anisetti informix com apt off single years old eagle talon turbo awd full cover reasonable liability no tickets no violations no accidents knock on wood mass one thing that makes a huge difference in mass is the town you live in i m personally in one of the best towns within reasonable distance of boston if i moved to the absolute best it would go down to about if i moved to the worst it would be also one accident and a couple of tickets would probably add another rv i have a mitsubishi eclipse turbo awd am years old and have no tickets that went on my record i live in illinois just outside of chicago and pay a year with full coverage at state farm i did get a small discount because of my alarm system a year i only live miles from chicago but if i actually lived in the city the price would be about a year i m over but in case you re interested anyway i m insuring a sho for month thats k personal k total k property with deductible glass and towing state farm unless you are under or have been driving for less than years i think you are being seriously ripped off i don t have one of the performance cars you listed but if your record is clean then you should not be paying over k did you try calling all the insurance dealers you could find although rates are supposed to be standardized i ve found that most places i initially call give me some ridiculously high quote and finaly i hit one that is much lower also i have changed insurance companies when the rate went up at renewal no accidents tickets car gets older to maintain a low rate you always have to be careful when it comes to insurance companies good luck serge
