{"id":598,"date":"2003-10-07T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-07T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bibik.org\/blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2003-10-07T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-07T22:24:00","slug":"598","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/2003\/10\/07\/598\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so in light of the <a href=\"\/CT\/archive\/2003_10_05_archive.php#106538888041636796\">car rental fiasco<\/a>, I decided to add car rental coverage to my insurance.  I got a bit curious as to what my insurance rates would have been had I purchased a different car.  I used Progressive&#8217;s online quote service and got some interesting numbers.   Note, the quote I got for my car was $1,439 while in all reality I pay about half of that.  For comparison purposes, I&#8217;m going to take $700 from each of the numbers I got.  That should be more realistic:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; width:400px\">\n<br \/>2003 Ford Focus ZX3<\/br><br \/>\n<br \/>2003 Ford Focus SVT<\/br><br \/>\n<br \/>2003 Subaru Impreza WRX Sedan<\/br><br \/>\n<br \/>2003 Subaru Impreza WRX Sport Wagon<\/br><br \/>\n<br \/>2004 Mazda RX-8<\/br><br \/>\n<br \/>2003 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution<\/br><br \/>\n<br \/>2003 Nissan 350z<\/br><br \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>$739<\/br><br \/>\n<br \/>$807<\/br><br \/>\n<br \/>$854<\/br><br \/>\n<br \/>$939<\/br><br \/>\n<br \/>$1,073<\/br><br \/>\n<br \/>$1,105<\/br><br \/>\n<br \/>$1,109<\/br><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/>So let&#8217;s see.  If I had actually purchased the Evo, my monthly payment and insurance cost per month would have totaled about $800.  In contrast, I&#8217;m spending about $520\/month for the Focus.  That is $280 savings per month on just basic costs, let alone the additional cost of premium fuel and speeding tickets had I chosen the Evo.  Since I started keeping track of how much fuel I use, I&#8217;ve gone through 126.23 gallons of the stuff.  That&#8217;s only a $25 difference if I was using premium instead of regular.   Maybe I should have gone with the Evo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so in light of the car rental fiasco, I decided to add car rental coverage to my insurance. I got a bit curious as to what my insurance rates would have been had I purchased a different car. I used Progressive&#8217;s online quote service and got some interesting numbers. Note, the quote I got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}