Polo’s hot but not bothered

A good friend works at a front-line office of one of the country’s major insurance companies, and she told me that a recurring problem is parents calling in to secure a quote for their recently-qualified-to-drive children.

Normally, this is not problematic as most parents are sensible about the cars they buy for their children, but a small few are clueless and are free with their money.

In such cases, the children might have persuaded the parents to purchase, say, a Subaru WRX for them, and the parents are quite taken aback when told that the insurance company has no interest in covering an 18-year-old in such a car.