Justin wrote:
>Then again, insurance on this car [a first gen MR2] would probably be
through the roof for
>me...
When we were looking into buying our second gen MR2 and debating turbo vs.
NA (we went NA because I am the world worst left foot braker, as we
discovered autoxing my Shelby Charger), we did a fair bit of talking to
Allstate. Neither the MR2 NA nor the MR2 Turbo were considered
"performance" or "hazardous" cars. I thought this was interesting, but just
yesterday, I got an offer from a different insurance company that "was able
to offer me their very best good driver rates" because I met a variety of
criteria including "not owning a high performance car."
I don't know whether to count my blessings (and insurance savings) or be
insulted for my car, but I thought it was useful information for anyone
thinking about picking up an MR2--I can't imagine the first gen would be
hazardous/performance if the second gen is not.
Of course, depending on your insurance company, YMMV. (Allstate also didn't
think the Shelby Charger was a performance model, which is why I switched
from State Farm.)
mlc
'91 MR2 NA
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