Hybrid Cars & Car Insurance

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Hey guys, I have had a lot of emails asking how hybrid cars actually work so I thought i would post this quick video i found on youtube the other day that covers all the basics. I would love to hear your opinions so please feel free to either send me an email or drop them in the comment box below!

I also found a site that claims to help young drivers get insurance for under £1000, it’s probably something worth checking out, their blog is pretty good (not as good as mine though) :)

There have also been a lot of questions about car insurance for women going up which i am going to be covering in a post soon so stay tuned!

Finding Car Insurance For Young Drivers

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To me finding car insurance was a nightmare as explained in my previous post but this was mainly due to the fact that i was actually silly enough to buy such a powerful car at a very young age. So now I am going to give you a few tips that I have learnt after attempting to find cheap insurance for 3 years now.

1) Each of the comparision sites also seem to display different prices on different days, which means one day may be cheaper than the other for the exact same quote. Most of the quotes supplied are vailed for 30 days so make sure you also keep a record of the cheapest one you find just incase you cannot find any cheaper ones.

2) Adding your parents onto your quote can heavily reduce it if they have a lot of no-claims under their belts. For my third year I actually got £320 off just by adding my mother onto the policy so it’s something you really need to look into.

3) Try ringing companies direct and tell them you have just got a better offer but want to sign up with them (for whatever reason). So if your cheapest quote is £1,000 just ring up that company and say “hey the cheapest quote I have been able to find is through ***** for £900 however i would rather have my policy through you. So can you match it?

Something along those lines can easily help you to knock %10 off, at the end of the day you have nothing to lose!

Car Insurance Is Getting Silly For Young Drivers!

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Being only 19 years old I have witnessed first hand how much car insurance can cost for us new drivers. When i first passed my test I brought a 1.4 corsa twin port, as like a classic young lad I wanted something fast that looked good. This was one of the worst mistakes I could have made.

The car cost me £3,995 from a local dealer near me in canterbury which left me with £1,000 for insurance, as It was my first year I expected it to cost around that amount meaning in total i would be spending £5,000. Now it’s a lot of money but not too bad so I wasn’t entirely concerned.

However when i went online to find cheap car insurance quotez i couldn’t believe my eyes, I started of using confused.com who came back with their cheapest quote of £6,432! It was just madness, I couldn’t understand how they could be there cheapest price. I of course started to panic as i realised there is no way I can afford anything close to that.

After using a few more comparison sites with about the same results i rang up quinn as many of my friends had claimed they were the cheapest. They gave me a quote of £3,100 which was a lot cheaper than the previous offers but still a bit of a joke.

After a couple of days ringing companies directly i started to realise that getting such a fast car for my first year was a big mistake and with no other choice i accepted quinns offer. I am still of course not happy about it but I didn’t really have a choice.

Hybrid Cars Are Cheaper To Insure

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Hybrid cars have always been cheaper to insure and tax for many reasons. The obvious one being that they don’t produce as much fossil fuels which in turn makes them more enviroment friendly. The problem with most hybrid cars is they are expensive and look like something out of the alien movies.