Hey folks, I wonder if you can help!
I am shortly going to be joining the Porsche family with a 944 turbo. I'm still searching for the right car and I think I'm pretty close...
I've just been on the phone to Adrian Flux who I've used for years on my Mk2 Golf Gti 16v and my Corrado VR6.
I've now tried two different registrations and am getting amazingly low quotes (£97 per annum, excluding breakdown or personal accident liability cover).
The weird thing was, with both registration numbers (taken from adverts on Pistonheads, of which one is the car I'm keen on, the other a random spot of same spec car), they *both* came up on their register as being "944 Lux" even though they are both 944 Turbo. One is 86/D and the other 87/E.
...for 1 car to be misregistered as a low spec lux is not a huge shock, but "OK" it needs rectifying if I buy. For both cars to be registered with the Insurance companies as "944 Lux" seemed really strange - that's when i started questioning my own sanity and my true understanding of Porsche 944 nomenclature!
Just to make sure I wasn't imagining something, I logged on to Confused.com to look up the car myself. I didn't expect the same low classic premium but I did expect to see the model and variant listed. In both cases the cars came up as "944 Lux" - no sign of the magic word "Turbo" anywhere.
Just to make sure I wasn't a complete fool, I chose the option on Confused.com saying "not the right car - pick from a list" - I looked through their dropdown list and found a variant called a "944 Lux Turbo".
Can someone enlighten me? What on earth is a "Lux Turbo", if it even exists? I have heard of car variants being incorrectly recorded by car dealerships making errors on initial car registration forms, so it may not even exist in reality - it's just a regular early 951.
...or, is it normal for non-S/SE (ie '86 and '87 model year) cars to be known as "Lux" from an insurance point of view?
NB: I didn't want to make a big song an dance about the model variant to the insurance broker's call centre person for fear of causing the current owners of both cars a problem, hence why I'm coning to you lovely knowledgeable people for some insider knowledge and guidance
Yours in confusion,
Chris
PS: I'm 35 years old, have 10 years no claims, a single SP30 from last October (3pts, £60) and will just be using the car for Social, Domestic & Pleasure, with a cap of 10k miles per year (I don't expect to get that high, but just in case).
