Can you get car insurance before you get a car?

Answer 1

Yes. There are basically two ways to do this:

You can talk to an insurance company and get insurance on yourself as a driver to cover your personal liability when driving. This may not cover damage to the car you're driving, but will cover damage to other people and their property (and that's the kind of insurance states that require insurance care about).

The other option would be, as soon as you know what the make/model/VIN of the car you're going to be getting is, to call an insurance company and get it covered immediately. If you already have insurance on some other vehicle, they can just add the new one to your policy. If not it may be a little more complicated ... but not much.