Someone's cashing in early..

[Lone Survivor]

Its actually quite simple.

First, get a dart board. Then the insurance agent has a few shots of neat Vodka followed by 6 pints of cider. Once said agent is well and truly plastered he throws three darts at the board as if its the face of his sworn enemy.

Add a 0 to the score.

Post to website.

:cheers:

But on a more serious note. Insurance really is befuddling. I've been quoted £485 for a Mustang GT and £1500 for the smaller, lighter, cheaper and less powerful 370Z.

:lol: at the broker description.

The 2+2 might make a difference over the Z, I've not started the insurance quote lottery yet for the Mustang, but my Z is only @ £300 and that's with my wife's SP30 (which upped it by £100!?!, stupid woman, should have SORNed it when I was in Afghan last year lol)

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[benanderson89]

:lol: at the broker description.

The 2+2 might make a difference over the Z, I've not started the insurance quote lottery yet for the Mustang, but my Z is only @ £300 and that's with my wife's SP30 (which upped it by £100!?!, stupid woman, should have SORNed it when I was in Afghan last year lol)

I'm already an esure customer, so my insurance is all good and sorted already Just need to say the word and they'll move my policy over to the new car... once it finally exists of course. ;)

Also, being a 2-seater doesn't really change anything. I was quoted less on a Porsche Cayman!

 

[McDoodle]

Here's why I'm selling mine ......

http://www.mustang6g.com/?p=7851

"After lunch, it's a Le Mans start from the restaurant booth, so I do the natural thing and run to the Ford. This Mustang is very much the track variant, squatting on suspiciously sticky rubber and what looks like three degrees of negative front camber. After the frenzied Ferrari, I'm hoping to catch my breath, to relax a bit behind the family-sedan-sized wheel of a nice, friendly big grand tourer. The clutch is comically light, like it's sourced from a Fiesta. That's good. But from the moment I start the engine …

Let me explain. The only way the team at Ford Performance could get 526 hp from 5.2 liters—the fabled 100 hp per liter and then some—was to reengineer the whole thing into a bit of an insane race motor. Flat-plane crankshaft. So I open the throttle, following Webster in his beloved Ferrari up a series of sharp hillside hairpins that seem designed to test second-gear acceleration and broken-asphalt traction at the same time, and the moment the tach hits about five grand, I hear The Sound ......

I firmly believe that when human civilization finally collapses and our descendants are nothing but hipster-bearded cavemen on a quest for fire, stories of The Sound will still be told every night, to frighten children and preserve all that is worth preserving of Western civilization. From generation to generation. "What an engine! What a noise!" says Chilton, in much the same way that human beings will ten, twenty, fifty thousand years from now.

They say that the government has special machines that can emit certain frequencies and make you throw up. I tell you that the Mustang emits certain frequencies that improve your humanity, that force you into a sympathetic resonance, your heart swelling as the needle twists to the final destination. Ahead of me, Webster is unable to pull away. It's Ford versus Ferrari all over again. ("I wasn't trying," he will later say, somewhat petulantly.) The Sound lashes me in waves from beneath the oddly shaped hood, all sperm-whale blunt-faced menace, and I'm reminded of Stubb, the second mate on the Pequod: "Hurrah! This whale carries the everlasting mail!"

AROUND NCM MOTORSPORTS PARK, the Ford Shelby GT350R feels very nearly as special as the Viper ACR. It has the same single-minded focus on high-speed balance and usable performance, and if it sometimes feels a bit like a taxicab compared with the Viper, it makes up for that with a simply magical V-8 that brings the caviar thrills of 8250-rpm performance to a beer-and-burgers demographic. If you could summon some sort of Lovecraftian dark magic to combine the best parts of the other seven cars in this test—the Bentley's on-road poise, the Cadillac's vivacious chassis, the Merc's bluff-nosed retro charm, the Cayman's accessible limits, the Ferrari's auditory drama, the Corvette's wide-hipped machismo, and the Viper's sense of purpose—then what would appear in the swirling mists would be, not Cthulhu the Great Old One, but Shelby the Baddest Mustang. Our winner by a runaway vote, the Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R is, quite deservedly, the Road & Track 2016 Performance Car of the Year."

 

[Actual]

...Anyhow the insurance companies charge extra if it's garaged anyway.

The online quote for Direct Line did not ask how the vehicle was stored which suits me because for any night of the week I could use any combination of on driveway, garage or on the road and I would not like to have any doubt over the insurance cover just because the vehicle was not in its designated place.

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