MR2 advice?

[phi1]

Hi there,

I am currently coming up to my first years no claims; I have been looking at changing my current car to something a bit faster. At first I was looking at getting an Audi A3 1.8T but all of them I was looking at was ruff. I have always had a soft spot for Toyota MR2 and I never thought I would be able to insure one. I ran a few quotes through and me as the main driver and my dad and mum as named drivers was bringing quotes at around £1400TPFT this was with bell, admiral, elephant. Other companies are around £2000. Does this seem right for other companys to be way off? I was surprised to find out the turbo was the same price. I have been looking at getting the turbo. I have a budget set around £3000 which seems I can get a mint one for that price.

http://pistonheads.co.uk/sales/1666601.htm I have been looking at that one possibly was going to contact the guy. I just wondered what to check on them usual problems etc.

Anyway thanks for any advice!

Cheers Phil

 

[phi1]

Rember that I will only have 1 year no claims, 18yr male, good area. I was supprised how cheap it was! Well it's not cheap but when I have friends paying 3k odd for corsas etc.

 

[phi1]

Not a good car choice for an 18 year old with limited driving experience.

I have had quite an experience with rwd cars, I used to live in florida and used a range of diffrent rwd cars, borrowed step mums z3, been on skid pan day (was great experience). The MR2 are not that bad anyway as they have the weight over the rear wheels.Anyway here is a pic with the quotes fully comp was only 100 or so more and if I went on a 10 month policy even better!

 

[phi1]

Have you checked on Admiral or Elephants website with that to make sure it is a turbo?

Yeah I phoned them up to confirm and they said it was correct. I was confused a normal GT 2L is the same price.

 

[phi1]

I've had lots of experience with powerful cars, FWD,RWD and AWD and trust me, the MR2 isn't as easy to drive as you seem to think, especially the turbo version.

Take it easy if you do get it, that paintwork looks like it's been well looked after, would be a shame to bend it.

Yeah I do understand where you and fox are coming from, my dad said he was going to get some kind of further training and show how to drive one properly what todo if the rear does step out etc.

 

[phi1]

I have just been putting the numberplate in, I just did do like you said so it showed turbo and it's jumped to around 2700 ( I refuse to pay that much!) yet when I phoned them up I did say it was a turbo and the guy just asked the reg and said it was same. There is something strange going on somewhere. I may just get the non turbo they are still quite fast. So the rev 3 is the best to get. What trim is the best to get in that version then?

 

[phi1]

Yeah it looks like they/me made a mess up and it was over £2k for a turbo for for a normal N/a it's around the £1500 mark.

 

[phi1]

I don't think I am going to get a turbo any more after spending best part of an hour on bell, admrial, elephant the cheapest I can insure a turbo is £2100 on a 10 month policy. A normal GT tbar rev 3 is £1700. I am just going to get one of those just need to wait for the mint one to come along!