considering trading my Nismo for this 5.0

mick

thanks, shadoquad.

People say the insurance premium on the WRX is pretty high.
the insurance on the Beetle is lower than my 370z nismo's insurance rate at 2,000 miles a year cap.

At the time when I got the Beetle, it was meant to serve as a daily driver and because there's no space in the garage (and the car had to be parked outside), I figured a Beetle would be good because nobody would do anything to it (Turns out to be true, so far).

Now there's space in the garage, I went for a better (faster) car

shadoquad

Yeah, I got an STI to replace my daily driver. I love it. It's pricey to insure, but it sure is fun and practical!

Red__Zed

The WRX insurance is pretty high, but it's worth it in my mind. Fantastic car--you should love it.

mick

Thanks, Red__Zed.
The insurance premium for the Camaro is less than the 370z
I thought 6.2L V-8 and 426 HP would cost more but I was wrong.

Baer383

The cost of insurance has allot of variables one of them being cost of parts when it needs to be repaired.

And Japanese are more expensive parts vs American car parts.

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Red__Zed

There's a lot that goes into premiums, buying demographic does not help the WRX.

for perspective, the wrx was about 60% more than the Z, while my mustang is less than half what I paid for the Z.

shadoquad

In my case, the Z is more expensive to insure than the STI.

I had also toyed with the idea of buying a Z06 over the summer, and it was still cheaper to insure than the Z.

Red__Zed

I'm sure age and location have a lot to do with it. I'm obviously younger and would be irresponsible in a Subaru, and there's very little practical need for AWD south of the mason Dixon

UNKNOWN_370

Premiums for this car keep going up and really don't understand why... I find the Z, with VDC on to be extremely stable, sport brakes alone, should be reason enough to discount the insurance. Power is strong but comes on smooth. The Z doesn't even truly feel like a sports car till you're cruising around in the 3500-4000rpm range in 3/4th gears. Which i do for extra fun but it sucks my car clean of gas. I'm sure most people don't do this... We don't seem to be in any extraordinary ratio of accidents.
The days of 24/7 aggressive sports cars are nearly gone. Most of these cars are bi polar. Tame when light on the pedal and wake up when all the right formulas are engaged.

I remember 80's camaro's mustangs and such. Those cars in v8 sport form were hard to drive. Even the v6's had an aggressive pedal. They were just aggressive all day long. The majority of sports cars today are more docile and all this insurance shyt is crap.