Re: Mini Petrol Powered Corvette 'Go-Kart' For Sale (7ft Long) On UK Ebay

"Dean Dark" <ddrake@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Let's use 1995 and 2005 as examples.  If you were to use a year to
>>> refer to that car, what would it be.
>>
>>Something like MkV Escort, registered 2005.
>
> I see.  So its age could be anywhere in a range of, what, six years or
> so?  You have to be honest, that's not really a very helpful
> description of the car, is it?  Might it not be much more helpful and
> honest to call it a 1995 Escort, registered 2005?
>
> Think of it this way:  How old is the car?  One year old?  Something
> plus or minus three years old?  Or eleven years old?  What age
> information would you be happy to accept about this car in the
> unlikely event that you were thinking of buying it?

Yet more ****ing ****e spouted from the Brit with the mind of a yank.

Let's say a "1995 model year Ford Escort" stayed in production until 2000.

By referring to it as a "1995 Ford Escort" you're still none the wiser as
to 
what year it was actually produced in....

-- 
"For want of the price of tea and a slice, the old man died."