<p>17 year old male. So how much will it cost me when I get a car?</p>
<p>a lot.</p>
<p>mines around $500 every six months I think... luckily my parents pay... but it's really crazy.</p>
<p>That depends.
New car, older car? Collsion is higher on a newer car.
Family multi-car discount?
Driver's ed discount?
Good student discount?</p>
<p>When my son took his car to Texas (new Solara), he had to have his own Texas policy. Had the good student and driver's ed discount, but we lost the multi-car discount. Have to pay $900 every six months, much higher than what we pay in MD. Our agent said Texas has a lot of bad drivers.</p>
<p>Check out the website of your parent's insurance. You might be able to get a rough quote.</p>
<p>Plan on about $1,000 a year for liability insurance. I have no idea how much comprehensive insurance would cost, but I imagine it's quite a bit. It's expensive to drive a car. Best bet is that if you will be buying a car for college, get an older used one that checks out okay by a mechanic. You can find used cars for very cheap compared to a new car, and i'm not just talking about the complete rubble heaps.</p>
<p>Used cars are simply the way to go, even if you aren't a low-on-cash college student. By the time you drive a new car off the lot, you've already lost a lot of money on it from depreciation. An average new car seems to lose about half of its value in the first 3-4 years, and when you're paying $20-30k for one, that's a heck of a lot of wasted money.</p>
<p><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=FtEp5yc-g3A%5B/url%5D">http://youtube.com/watch?v=FtEp5yc-g3A</a></p>
<p>WATCH IT. trust me.</p>
<p>On a 2001 Mitsubishi with 70,000, taking into account the GPA discount and drivers ed, and taking into account lower rates for females, I was shocked to learn our D's insurance would be $2200 a year (payable at 1100 every 6 mos) for comprehensive coverage. This includes a multicar discount, a multi-line discount (we have our home and cars with the same company), and a high deductible (1000.) She is still in high school. Rates will go down at age 25--gee thanks.</p>