as a 21 year old youd think my insurance would be sky high (and im not sayin it isnt ) but swinton insured me for 2227pound a year and thats befor i joined fcc may sound steep but dont be fooled tesco said no to evan insuing me and got quoted by others up to 7000 grang so for as little as ive looked i would say check out swinton. but again im a noob so look around first and see wat the other members say

i love my car i dont know how id evan work if i didnt have my little baby to keep me going

In July I was 22 with 1 year driving experience, 1 year NCB, I insured my 280 bhp coupe for £1200 with adrian flux. £2000+ still sounds too much to me.

£2200 is extortion unless you have loads of points!

i'm 25 and i am paying £1400 tpft on a modded 20vt and it's my first car i have driven on a full license!!!
my gt4 (380bhp) was £1200 tpft on L plates at the age of 22.
unless you have loads of points, have motor related convictions or your middle name is sucker, then your still paying over the odds in my book mate

have to agree with the others still seems alot to me

Why on earth would people have a car that costs nearly as much to insure for one year as it is worth?

Try Flux, Greenlight and Noel Dazely...oh and move to the Outer Hebrides for a low risk postcode

It's just not worth paying that sort of money to insure a coop.
I was glad when i got my full ncb at 22, just got fed up of paying stupid money for insurance.

you hafto remember guys ive had my full license for about three months so its not bad think about wat your sayin have you told them about all your mods

Yes indeed, they are.

Surely better to have an small car, build up some NCB. I'm not sure a 20vt coupe is sensible as a new driver

If you can afford it, fine as it's your money, but remember if, God forbid, you write off the car, you may well find yourself out of pocket!

because it's not worth as much as it should be worth for what it is

(in comparison to "top marques")

monetary value means nothing to me anyway

But is it not alarming to pay £2200 for insurance (and presumably even more in installments) from taxed income (so ~£3.5k or more of gross)

My first car cost me £2,000 to insure and that was an Orion 1.6 that cost me £2,500

As for a first car as a coupe, probably not the best, but my first car had 120 bhp, which for 14 years ago was alot, and I didn't crash that, it wasn't until I had half that power that I crashed

At 18, 19, 20 or whatever, all I remember was wanting to have the best car at School, college, work, etc - so owning a coop is spot on

£2200 is a lot, but for a while I thought I was going to have to pay £1800 which is not far off, before I got them down to £1200 which I was very happy with.

£2200 would be about £200 a month, I pay about £120 a month which is twice as much as I pay on fuel!

as fuel prices go up insurance will come down so I'll still be better off in the future.

Vickster, it's a bloke thing. He probably only has one pair of shoes!

Shoes aren't my thing, but I do like exotic holidays ... ~£1700 will pay for my 2 weeks in Thailand and I can also insure the coupe and have change from £2200

Really can't believe how much people will pay for insurance, £2200, OMG

I'm 28, 7 years full no claims, no points, fully comp i pay £336.00!!!!!

£336.00 - thats about one hundred less than I pay

I'm 52 full no claims and I think I pay about 450 fully comp for a std 20vt

Shop around is my advise, do the main insurance comparison sites. Don't take out their breakdown cover (usually around £80-90), and pay in one lump sum. Just paying one lump sum saves about £100.0 on interest.

I've had mine down from £519 to £336.00 this year

Another trick, take out a 0% credit Card, pay insuarance in full using this card, and then just pay the card off monthly..

My advice is don't waste your time with web-sites like Confused.com. My experience has been that they often give you a distorted picture of who's charging what.

Unfortunately there's no substitute for doing the leg work and getting quotes from as many places as possible.

All insurance companies want to insure somebody who is 30-60 with plenty of NCB, married with kids and a mortgage, driving a middle of the road family runaround and living in the leafy suburbs. The really big insurers have got the clout to take almost only those people and put their prices for everybody else high enough that they're not competitive. I'd be surprised if Swinton didn't fall in to that category.