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Originally Posted by CountChoculitis
I thought for the longest time, that it was going to have a turbo, so when I read that it won't, I was a little bummed.
But, then it dawned on me, the biggest benefit of N/A....
LOWER INSURANCE
And with all my tickets, and living where I do, [ex. my bike insurance went up, $3,000 when I moved here...] every little thing that can lower my rate helps.
I was gonna buy a WRX, but I called my insurance company first and they said it was gonna be $5,000/year. It's was gonna cost more than the damn car! So I thought, 'hmm, what about a Legacy GT? That's gotta be cheaper to insure, cause it's not REALLY a sports car, it's a sedan with a nice motor...'
No. It was also $5,000/year.
So no complaints from me. I'd much rather add boost, than pay twice over for factory boost.  |
That's weird. Over the past 3 months I've gotten insurance quotes from my insurance provider for a new GTI, WRX, Mustang 6 and 8, Civic SI, Eclipse and Genesis Coupe and the Civic and Eclipse (both N/A) were the more expensive of the bunch to insure. Even more than the GTI and Mustang GT which both had a higher sticker price than the others. In my 10 years of car ownership, I've never known a vehicles induction type to have any affect on it's insurance costs. My new F150 is twin turbocharged, almost the same sticker price as my V8 Tundra that I owned before it... and the insurance is exactly the same.
I haven't paid 5grand a year for insurance since I was 18, how old are you?
Also, using saving money on insurance as a benefit of an N/A car over an FI car is just sad. lol