Tuesday, March 26, 2019

How Much Would Movie Cars Cost to Insure?

The following infographic should please film fans and car lovers.  It looks at six well known movie cars and determines how much it would actually cost to insure those vehicles.  I hope you find it informative and entertaining.  Note that all cost are in British pounds.

- Joanne

Ever wonder how much it would cost to insure some of the iconic movie cars in real life?  Price comparison experts at Quotezone.co.uk decided to find out for fun using modern day insurance quote criteria.

The Calculations
Quotezone.co.uk’s specialists looked at the usual queries asked when comparing car insurance quotes, such as the driver’s age, their profession and whether or not they have a No Claims Bonus. They also reviewed the unique features of each vehicle, such as its ability to time-travel or transform into a submarine.

Here’s the rounded up famous pop culture cars and with the calculation of their estimated insurance costs.*
 
Car Name
Car Type
Movie
Cost to Insure
Bumblebee
Chevrolet Camaro
Transformers
£400,000
DeLorean Time Machine
DMC-12 DeLorean
Back To The Future
£154,200
Lotus Esprit
Lotus Esprit
The Spy Who Loved Me
£64,400
Ecto 1
Cadillac Miller-Meteor
Ghostbusters
£56,000
Aston Martin DB5
Aston Martin DB5
Goldfinger
£40,000
Herbie
Volkswagen Beetle
The Love Bug
£1,800

  





Car name: Bumblebee
Car type: Chevrolet Camaro
Movie: Transformers
Driver: Sam Witwicky (played by Shia LaBeouf)
Age: 17                                                                                                                      
Occupation: Student                                                                            
Age of vehicle: 2009 = 8 years old
Mileage: 20,000 miles
Claims: One car crash
Speeding offences: Exceeding the statutory speed limit
Car modifications: Robot, plasma cannon and missiles

Cost to insure: £400,000





Car name: DeLorean Time Machine
Car type: DMC-12 DeLorean
Movie: Back to The Future
Driver: Emmett “Doc” Brown (played by Christopher Lloyd)
Age: 67
Occupation: Scientist
Age of vehicle: 1981 = 36 years old
Mileage: 20,000 miles
Claims: No claims made
Speeding offences: Multiple speeding offences
Car modifications: Flux Capacitor, Mr Fusion 

Cost to insure: £154,200




Car name: Lotus Esprit
Car type: Lotus Esprit
Movie: The Spy Who Loved Me
Driver: James Bond (played by Roger Moore)
Age: 37
Occupation: Spy
Age of vehicle: 1975 = 42 years old
Mileage: 6,000 miles
Claims: No claims made
Speeding offences: Exceeding the statutory speed limit
Car modifications: Cement sprayer, submersible mode, surface-to-air missiles, black dye slick, mines, and torpedoes
Cost to insure:  £64,400




Car type: Aston Martin DB5

Movie: Goldfinger

Driver: James Bond (played by Sean Connery)

Age: 37

Occupation: Spy

Age of vehicle: 1963 = 54 years old

Mileage: 12,000 miles

Claims: One crash

Speeding offences: Exceeding the statutory speed limit

Car modifications: Machine guns, tire-shredding blade, bullet screen, radar scanner and tracking screen, passenger ejector seat, oil slick, smoke screen, bullet-proof windscreen and revolving number plates

Cost to insure: £40,000




Car name: Ecto 1
Car type: Cadillac Miller-Meteor
Movie: Ghostbusters
Driver: Ray Stantz (played by Dan Aykroyd)
Age: 30
Occupation: Scientist
Age of vehicle: 1959 = 58 years old
Mileage: 20,000 miles
Claims: No claims made.
Speeding offences: Exceeding the statutory speed limit
Car modifications: Super Slammer Muon Trap
Cost to insure: £56,000






Car name: Herbie  
Car type: Volkswagen Beetle
Movie: Love Bug
Driver: Jim Douglas (played by Dean Jones)
Age: 35
Occupation: Race car driver
Age of vehicle: 1963 = 54 years old
Mileage: 20,000 miles
Claims: No claims made.
Speeding offences: N/A/. All speeding was done on a racetrack
Car modifications: Sentient anthropomorphic aka driverless and stickers on the bodywork
Cost to insure: £1,800

  

*All cars and drivers are fictional and feature in TV and film, so any insurance quotes given are guesstimates. While we have done our best to base them in a real-life context, we can’t guarantee this is how much you’ll actually pay if you own a time-travelling DeLorean or need to insure a real Transformer.


Sources:

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/Total-Recall-50-Most-Memorable-Movie-Cars/
http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Herbie
https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Lotus_Esprit_S1
https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Aston_Martin_DB5
http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/DeLorean_time_machine
http://michaelbaystransformers.wikia.com/wiki/Bumblebee
https://ghostbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Ecto-1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Brown
https://ghostbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Ray_Stantz
http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Jim_Douglas
https://www.driving.co.uk/news/driverless-cars-will-attract-hefty-insurance-premium/



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