ken yeang said:
I think the insurance cost for the car will be more expensive than other model due to its popularity among car thieves.....
such thing doesnt happen in Malaysia. its different in UK for example where a popular car for theft will have higher premiums to insured.
young drivers, drivers with many sped trap fines or bad record also pay more to insure. fast cars incl hot hatch also need to pay more. cars with GTI badge for example also pay more - which is why many hot hatches are using/changing their badge to other than GTI like...
Civic Type R or Vauxhall Astra VXR (previously GTE). there's a reason to that.
other than that, cars with low security and safety aspect also rates low among insurance companies. that is why, proton cars have low sales figure in UK even though Proton tries hard to improve those factors including giving 4 airbags, ABS and traction control.