Morning! So our son recently passed his driving test. After forking out £84 for every 2 hour lesson and for his learner insurance, it's time to get him insured properly.
We would like to give him use of our car. It's worth about £4k and has a 1.6l engine.
To insure me and my husband, it's less than £300pa. To add him as a named driver, it's minimum £3k with a black box (for us all). £6k without a black box.
Now, we paid for our eldest's first year of insurance as a named driver. It cost us about £1.2k more than just insuring ourselves. This time, that's doubled.
I've looked at a cheap runaround £1k (ish) for a 1l polo or similar, with his own insurance and me as a named driver (clean licence) but the insurance prices are the same.
Any hints and tips that make this more affordable for our kids? We have other sons coming up through the ranks and I feel sick at the cost- but determined to give them all the same opportunities.
What are the cheapest cars to insure?
Thank you in advance.