I pay about $167 a month. Two cars, two drives, see below.
I am required by the lienholder of the newer vehicle to carry full coverage, so my ordinarily $60 or so bill is and will remain $100 higher.
The older vehicle only requires state minimum and that is all I pay considering it's 20 years old.
My insurance carrier is great because they covered a total loss of a vehicle due to water damage in 2016. That and GAP coverage paid off the car loan and we were able to get a second, one year newer model.
Note, I have blanked out sensitive data. And for some reason the insurance carrier always wants to label the second car as an 'S' when it's actually an 'SR'.
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I bought mine when I was 16. Then I paid about £600 for the car, and about the same for insurance when I was 17.
My parents bought a 1980 Datsun 210 hatchback in 1983. I was 12. When I turned 16, that car was 16 years old and they let me have it - although my dad's name was still on the title.
In 1996 my parents bought the '97 Accord that I have listed above brand new. They gave me (with title) the 1985 Honda Accord that they had bought used in 1989. My dad sold the '80 210 to my wife (then my girlfriend) for $1.
Since then, because of need at various points, my parents bought us a '97 Toyota Tacoma, later sold and a 1994 Nissan Sentra, later sold.
Somewhere in there was a 1987 Nissan Sentra that never ran right after a mechanic messed it up. My dad had bought it for my sister to learn to drive on but she freaked out over stick when doing her driving test and the DMV person administering the test had to drive it back to the DMV. My sister did not pass that day.
Sold that POS Sentra for $300.
In 2008, I finally got the 1997 Accord that my parents had bought new. For the first time in 2015 my wife and I actually had decent enough credit to buy a new (used) 2012 Sentra. One year later and water damage totaled it so now we're driving a 2013 Sentra.
The 2012 and 2013 are the only cars I've ever owned where I actually had to pay money for. I've been very lucky that my parents have always gifted me their old, but paid for vehicles.
I suppose that might be their guilt since they've replaced all the cars my sister has consistently wrecked over the years because she's an agressive driver.
