|
Kid driver - what car ?
The Covid/Ukraine/inflation thing has totally changed what I thought I knew about the used car market... The $3000-5000 used cars I had in mind seem to be 7-10K now. Nope. My original idea always was merc 300D - slow tank, but wife wants Airbags and ABS.
Need a cheap car for the kid to learn on and pass the test with, and drive for a year before he gets better and buys something else, by himself. The Ins Co said each person at home gets assigned one car for risk and premium valuation, so it's best for the student driver to actually get a cheap car and be assigned to that, vs none at all and being on the parent's pricier cars ! Interesting !
What can you think of that will have an airbag/ABS, not get him too ridiculed at school but around $5000 ? I'm more asking what to avoid - some of you may have had bad surprises buying random such cars that proved to be HIGH premiums (because insurance rules are weird)... For example my wife's car is valued EXACTLY the same as mine, and yet the premium on it was 2x as much because presumably of cost of repair or insurance charts!!! Weird.
|