First Italian Car?

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Some great tips on here. My daughter is 17 soon too. Not sure if it works for youngsters, but more off the radar cars tend to be cheaper. I was thinking a 1.6 C30 volvo, for cheapness, solidity and, I reckon, a fairly left field choice. Mito’s are good for extra style though.
 
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A friend is selling her 2013 Fiat 500 in that pale blue colour Matt with 28k on the clock £3200. It’s spotless as she hardly uses it. If it was a different colour I would have bought it for Dan and sat on it until he was 17 but it is a girly colour as he pointed out to me.
 
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Andyk said:
A friend is selling her 2013 Fiat 500 in that pale blue colour Matt with 28k on the clock £3200. It’s spotless as she hardly uses it. If it was a different colour I would have bought it for Dan and sat on it until he was 17 but it is a girly colour as he pointed out to me.
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That will be the same colour as Nicola's Abarth - I love it and am more than happy to drive it very regularly but my 17 year old self may not have been!

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Andyk said:
A friend is selling her 2013 Fiat 500 in that pale blue colour Matt with 28k on the clock £3200. It’s spotless as she hardly uses it. If it was a different colour I would have bought it for Dan and sat on it until he was 17 but it is a girly colour as he pointed out to me.
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Have it wrapped in Matt black or camo green!
Can’t cost much to wrap a Fiat 500
 
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safrane said:
Thought it was illegal to only offer insurance to one sex these days?..
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I think it was found to be discriminatory to offer different prices for the same product for boys and girls. I assume this is addressed legally by only offering a product for girls. I wonder how long before a product is launched for them and theirs or gender fluids!!
 
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cheshiremaserati said:
As a first car, you will be looking to a Black Box policy for the first year or two. I found Admiral as the best all-round policy for my daughter's first car. Google black box car insurance. I suspect AIB will not get a look-in for such a policy and always found them extremely expensive for the Porsche and the Gransport. (The 1st car I bought in 2014 for my daughter was a 2009 VW Polo - low insurance at £1200 with a £250 excess for accidental damage).
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My daughter has been driving a couple of years now and we decided that a black box policy was too restrictive. Back by a certain time and driving characteristics are monitored quite poorly. In a small engined car and inexperienced driver they can be a bit jerky which loses points. I had a Range Rover TD v8 with a black box (Insurance £250!) with Hastings for a couple of years and generally scored high 80s but it also had me doing 70mph through houses and across railways which they refused to delete.
Overall a non box policy only cost a few more quid, £200 I think and she decided against it.
BTW Toyota Yaris is a great starter car.
 
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conaero said:
A Mito would fit the bill.

Our loan Giulietta’s are brilliant, would like them to have that but think they are too powerful. 1.6 jtdm 105hp is the lowest engine. Not worth getting a quote?

Might have a chat to Darren at AIB Insurance.
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You might be surprised, not a common car for kids of that age to have so algorithms might be quite forgiving -
However my vote would be a Fiat 500 of some description. My youngest daughter loves hers and if you borrow it, you can still have a fun drive.
 
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and if your handy on the tools you can convert a standard 500 rear end in to an Abarth rear end, did that with my daughter's first 500, dead easy, secondhand hand Abarth bumper and Abarth exhaust, just needed an extra hanger for box welded to underside and hey presto, looked the nuts on a standard 500 sport and with that raspy exhaust note and the Abarth rims


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lifes2short said:
and if your handy on the tools you can convert a standard 500 rear end in to an Abarth rear end, did that with my daughter's first 500, dead easy, secondhand hand Abarth bumper and Abarth exhaust, just needed an extra hanger for box welded to underside and hey presto, looked the nuts on a standard 500 sport and with that raspy exhaust note and the Abarth rims


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That looks great L2S!......Not teaching you how to suck eggs but have you told the insurance company about the mods?
 
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That looks great L2S!......Not teaching you how to suck eggs but have you told the insurance company about the mods?
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i did and they only loaded it by £65, she sold the car about 3 years ago to another very happy farther for her daughter who had just passed her test

Shite: edit before wanderer picks up on it, just a typo, should read father
 
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started both my kids on fiat 500s spot on cheep to insure cheep to tax fill them up for £35 sale them for the same sort of money you buy them after 2 years and a 5ster safety rating
 
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gb-gta said:
Thread drift, but my first Italian car was one of my favourite cars ever!
A 3.0v6 manual
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I had one just like that - silver over grey plastic with blue velour interior. Great motor and fun with the manual box. Thread drift excused. Thanks for the memories.
 
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