WOW, kids today man!! fair play aspiring to an Exige as your first car!!
Belive it or not my Exige is my first car!!!
But i’ve had a van for ten years
I had a Caterham, they are great fun, but mine was a bit stupid, and I couldn’t drive it for more than 30 mins without the onset of ‘stupid car fatigue syndrome’. The Exige is also good fun, but a bit more tame, and I drove it for 3hours the other day in 1 go, and felt ok-ish.
Although 95% of the time I also drive a white van.
I’ve got to agree with Soggster, my caterham was just barking mad. 0-100 in under 10secs. Its fun the first few times but when you’ve got used to it and realise how tiring it is being blown to bits by the wind…
They are good on track too but around normal bumpy country roads I’m much happier with the Exige, it doesn’t get phased by the bumps. The Caterhams de-dion rear can get really choppy.
I think the newer CSRs will be much better as they are more plush, lower revving gruntier engine and sorted handling but at well over �30K for such a basic car you’ve really got to want one. I think a good compromise would be a S2 Exige for regular use and an old roadsport/HPC to hoon on the track.
which is why the Midget is utterly out of the question, I had a look at what it would cost to insure, just for fun ( yes I know that�s sad ) it�s extortionate, I mean really and truly extortionate .
(By the way welcome to �lotus lad�)
David [/quote]
I checked out the insurance for a midget for a 17 yr old and the quote was �275. which is well cheaper than any modern shop/granny cars.
Are you sure, I got more like 5x that! And that�s with an advanced drivers course as well.
David
Try a ‘Classic Insurance’ for cars older than 10yrs. The older the cheaper, the fewer miles the better too. Probably need to join an owners club to demonstrate some committment. Try MG owners or the like. MG run their own insurance.
AON & Footman James do the classic policies too.
Quotes are normally based on a cars value, plus a premium for mileage use etc.
Tim.
I got the figure from Lancaster Classic car insurance, mind that was on a limited milage per year, but i’m guessing it wouldn’t make that much difference
Also depends a lot on where you live.
I live in the middle of the countryside, hardly the most dangerous place to have a car (plus I told them it would be garaged, and krooklocked), maybe they had a problem with the anticipated mileage, not that it was that high . Mind you the prices do go down quite considerably if you fit things like airbags, better brakes, ect�
David
You won’t find discount for airbags on a classic policy…
I’m willing to be proved wrong though
Tim.
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Speak to a guy called Chris (or maybe Craig, I can�t remember)
And prepare to eat thy hat
David
He sank your battleship