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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