However, new and young drivers may still struggle to keep their annual bills below £1000, so we’ve rounded up the cheapest cars to insure from the hundreds of new models on sale.
It’s worth remembering that the cost of cover varies heavily for people of different ages and professions. So, to make all our quotes comparable, we’ve based each one on a 40-year-old male teacher who is married and living in Caerphilly, with 10 years’ no claims bonus and no driving convictions or accidents within the past five years, driving 10,000 miles per year.
Below we count down the 20 cheapest new cars to insure, revealing how much they will cost for our average driver.
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