Civic VTEC insurance Cheaper then 16v

tobiasnugent · Post by **tobiasnugent** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:09 pm

Insurance the faster car is cheaper ?

£1600 for VTEC

£1850 for 16v ?

WTF???

Post by **NickD** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:44 am

Not a lot faster - 0.1 of a second difference to 60 iirc

m@rk · Post by **m@rk** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:20 am

NickD wrote:Not a lot faster - 0.1 of a second difference to 60 iirc

sounds nicer though....

Post by **nominous** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:40 am

16V's are probably crashed more than VT's.
There are more of them around and they are a cheaper car to buy.

It's much the same for when CRX insurance rocketted, once they became cheap enough that kids with fresh licenses could afford them all the premiums went upwards.

Now happening to tegs.

tobiasnugent · Post by **tobiasnugent** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 11:08 am

Just find it very strange

Rich4thGen · Post by **Rich4thGen** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:21 pm

another plus for the vtec

tobiasnugent · Post by **tobiasnugent** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 1:32 pm

Rich4thGen wrote:another plus for the vtec

out of price range ATM to much fuel/enitial purchase cost

91civic_VT · Post by **91civic_VT** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:08 pm

Surely the fuel consumption can't be much different?

EE9 CVC · Post by **EE9 CVC** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:37 pm

91civic_VT wrote:Surely the fuel consumption can't be much different?

I wouldn't think it, Mine gets on Average 31mpg, thats mostly stop start driving and not really trying to get good mpg either. On the motorway I get over 40mpg easily.

Can't see a 16v getting much better mpg than that.

Rich4thGen · Post by **Rich4thGen** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 7:22 pm

yeah, my mates 16v rex is better on fuel than my vtec civic. Think its cos i go over 5500rpm a bit too much.