The Least Expensive Car to Insure

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The Least Expensive Car to Insure

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The expense of a new or slightly used car has risen so much that people find themselves priced out of the market. Maybe this is why the average American car has been on the road for over 12 years now. Car payments only represent a portion of ownership costs. Gasoline prices are historically high, and insurance costs can be oppressive. Inexpensive cars tend to be the least expensive to insure. This year, the car with the lowest annual insurance cost is the extremely cheap Fiat at $1,511, compared to an industry average of $1,633. The Fiat is also one of the worst cars Americans can buy.
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Insurify issues an annual report on car insurance. The primary reasons insurance prices vary are the car model insured, where the car is driven, the track record of the driver, any discounts an insurance company offers and what kinds of accidents are covered. Another recent factor is that more Americans drive aggressively: “44% of drivers reported witnessing more aggressive driving on the roads in 2021 than before the pandemic.”
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Along with the Fiat, the cheapest cars to insure are Buicks ($1,533) and Subarus ($1,597). Each of these brands has relatively low prices for their new cars.

The most expensive are the Alfa Romeo ($3,058), Maserati ($2,922) and Tesla ($2,908). Each has models priced well into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Fiat is among the most popular cars in Europe. Sales in the United States are poor at only a few thousand per month, a figure that has fallen most years recently. One reason Fiat sales are poor at this point is that it only sells one model, the 500x, which has a base price of $27,965.
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Fiat quality’s quality ratings are at the bottom of the J.D. Power and Consumer Reports rankings. Since these are important tools for consumers, it is no wonder Fiat sales are low. Fiat vehicles are cheap to insure, but few people want them.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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