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

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:20:46 +0000, steve@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (SteveH)
wrote:

>Why would it be a 2000 model? - there's no difference (in most cases)
>between a 1995 and 2000 model, so it doesn't really help.

Because that's the way it works.  A 1995 (model) may be identical to a
2000 (model) in all respects except for the date coded in to the VIN.
But one is a 1995 and the other is a 2000.  The difference in the
prices of the two might help you to understand it better.  There *is*
a difference in price, before you ask.

>'Model Years' are just a marketing ploy - a manufacturer in the **** may
>well have a whole stockpile of 2007 models and are now producing 2008
>models.....

Well, what you're getting at is what was originally called "planned
obsolescence" when the car makers first started doing it back in the
1930s, I believe, as a way to make people want to replace the
perfectly serviceable car they already owned.  In general, the Brits
have always been just as much victims of it as the merkins have been.
It just manifests itself in a slightly different form there, though it
seems to have *you* fooled.