Car for Older Learner driver

[sagt550]

Just a after a few ideas for a car for my other half who is learning to drive at the age of 37.

I'm after the something circa £2k ish second hand and reasonably compact in size, but am just wondering if there are any models to avoid from an insurance perspective. I know sometimes there can be some bizarre insurance quotes on models that you would assume would be coming in cheap.

Anyway, ideas much appreciated.

[MorganP104]

The Kia Rio is dirt cheap to insure.

If your OH is a badge snob, forget it, though. I've given up convincing people that Korean cars these days are really quite good! Either people get it, or they don't.

[sagt550]

No issues with snobbery, exactly the type of info I was after

[Henno196]

My missus had a Peugeot 107 that got written off, and replaced it with an identical Citroen C1. Both cheap to insure, no road tax, compact and great on fuel. Easy to drive and slow enough to avoid getting into real trouble, but nippy enough around town. Both have been super reliable, there's very little to go wrong. We drove the C1 on a 520 mile round trip (i did one half) and it wasn't as bad on the motorway as i thought. Not very refined though, so i wouldn't recommend it if you regularly do long trips however my other half has no qualms doing 400 miles a week for work in hers (trips from client to client throughout the day).

Edited by Henno196 on Friday 19th May 15:12