Revealed: The budget cars that are totalled in a minor bingle.
They might be safer than ever before but some of Australia’s cheapest new cars can be an insurance write-off in the most common type of crash: a bumper-to-bumper prang. The crash repair estimates come from NRMA Insurance analysis of low-speed impacts, which account for more than 70 per cent of all car insurance claims.
“These are safe cars but they shouldn’t be write-offs in jogging pace collisions,” says NRMA Insurance research manager Robert McDonald.
Improvements in technology have made small cars safer, but also more expensive to fix.
“There’s more technology to protect and, as a result, the repair costs can be quite high from a relatively small bump,”
NRMA Insurance calculates repair costs after ramming cars into a bumper-like barrier at 10km/h.
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