Choose Safety

Buying a car? Make sure you put safety first. It could help save your life, and will definitely help you save on auto insurance when you get a quote from Esurance!

Getting Started

When you’re buying a car, it pays to consider all the information available before making such a sizable investment. You’ll be more likely to save money, and information from a diverse array of sources will help ensure that you get the safest vehicle available. Fortunately, a wide variety of consumer information is available online at Web sites like Yahoo! Autos. You can find all the information you need in minutes!

You can also see available safety features and select other custom features when you get hassle-free new or used car quotes online. Yahoo! Autos makes comparison shopping easy, without any obligation to buy!

Crash Test Performance

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and many other safety authorities run crash tests every year to determine how well vehicles protect occupants in frontal and side collisions. When you're car shopping, ask how well the vehicle you're interested in holds up in frontal and side collision simulations. Good performance in these crash tests is typically a prominent selling feature. If the seller doesn't know, or if you want to know more, you can research specific models and years on NHTSA's Web site.

Safety Features that Help You Save on Auto Insurance

• Seat belts— On average, seat belts save more than 10,000 lives each year. (Because of this, you’re typically given an auto insurance discount for certain kinds of automatic seat belts when you buy auto insurance.)
  
  
• Air bags— When used with seat belts, air bags increase safety for most adult passengers. Concerned about reports on air bag safety? Learn how to use air bags safely with Esurance’s extensive vehicle information.
  
  
• Head injury protection— Head injury protection helps lighten the blow should your head strike the interior roof of the vehicle and has become standard protection in recent model years. Headrests minimize neck trauma in an accident.

Auto insurance discounts for these safety features are typically applied automatically in your auto insurance quote from companies like Esurance.

Tough Traction

There are a lot of safety features that help you better control your vehicle, such as anti-lock brake systems, traction control, and all-wheel drive. See if the car that interests you has any of these features and then get a quote from Esurance to find out auto insurance costs. (Many of these features result in lower auto insurance rates and/or auto insurance discounts.)

Better Auto Insurance Prices Help Offset Car Purchase Costs

A higher purchase price due to safety features is often offset by lower auto insurance rates. Many of the car safety features listed above result in a lower auto insurance premium and/or auto insurance discounts. Driving a car that has performed well in crash tests can also result in a lower auto insurance premium.

If you'd like to find out what the premium might be for a car you're interested in, get an online auto insurance quote for that car. With Esurance, you can get as many quotes for as many different cars as you like, allowing you to save on auto insurance when you're buying a new car.