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I just don't really understand why we gave them that in the first place.
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I just don't really understand why we gave them that in the first place.
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You couldn't be more wrong
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Not every country has the age of the car in the plate, they still sell new cars. The UK are amongst the shortest keepers of new cars though.
I'd be happier without, there would be more choice of personalised plates without having to stick to the formats and not make a car look newer. Mine would have been a 2001 plate.
I'd be happier without, there would be more choice of personalised plates without having to stick to the formats and not make a car look newer. Mine would have been a 2001 plate.
Right, but we're talking about the attitudes and culture of the UK. If age based plates help increase new car sales, why scrap them? What's the justification?
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To readjust peoples attitudes and make them understand that financing a brand new Audi with £10 worth a fuel in the tank and only £500 in savings is perhaps the wrong thing to do?
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I hope they keep it. Lots of cheap second hand motors. Prices on the continent for used cars are a hell of lot firmer because of it.
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Because it is those kinds of people that get themselves heavily in debt which we the tax payer end up paying for.
Can confirm this. If my car were LHD I could sell it for around €13000....
It is...insane. Utterly, insane.
It actually seems like (here in Portugal at least) it's actually better to go and get a deal from a stealer.
Surely not?
Is this why there is an influx of Eastern Europens buying clapped out German whips over here and then shipping them back to Romania etc?
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My mother has retired to Poland. They were looking for a second car for tip runs etc. A 2005 Audi C5 2.4 petrol was 4k. Albeit top spec and low mileage. That's a 1500 car tops on these shores.
*forgets about thread for a few days. comes back to people still going on about him leaving the year in the plate*
You lot aren't half a bunch of princesses. It's got nothing to do with "showing off" (it's a Golf!) or anything like that, it's so people know what revision it is. As you know, models change from time to time. I'd have done the same if it was any plate.
You lot aren't half a bunch of princesses. It's got nothing to do with "showing off" (it's a Golf!) or anything like that, it's so people know what revision it is. As you know, models change from time to time. I'd have done the same if it was any plate.
It's the production date that shows that not the registration date. There are both mk7 and mk7.5 models on 17 plate.
I knew you'd be in to pick holes, you did really well to last 22 minutes! Just get over it and move on.
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1) Most people don't care what "revision" a car is
2) If they do care, they can tell by the look of the thing, not the number plate
Bit of a princess caring over the most insignificant of things
