Car buying gone bonkers

A new survey of 2,000 people in the UK has revealed that five per cent of men took longer to find a new car than they spent choosing their wife.

The Netcars.com survey, also found that more than one in ten males took longer deciding what make and model of car to have than what they should call their children or what house they should buy.

Apparently, the over-55s are the easiest to please when it comes to buying cars as 70 percent of this age group said they took less than three months to make a purchase.

Meanwhile, drivers aged 25-34 are more deliberate and more protracted in making their purchase – four percent of this age group owned up to taking more than 12 months to make a decision.

Netcars.com marketing director Liz Rix said, "We conducted our survey because we were keen to establish just how important car purchasing was for our customers.

"I have to admit we were very surprised by the results; who would have thought that people would spend more time looking for a new car than they did for a wife? Or that buying a car was more important than giving your child a name?”

However, here at CoverGirl, as specialist providers of car insurance for women, we know that it only takes a few minutes to decide where to get your motor cover from &ndash: because you’ve already done it by finding CoverGirl.

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