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

Dean Dark <ddrake@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.

That's an extreme example, though - most models only have a 4 year life
cycle before a major facelift.

More questionable would be the difference between a car made in 1998 and
one made in 2000. Because there's no specification difference between
the two, both could be registered on the same day and have the same
value. Happens all the time, even with the silly American 'model year'
crap.
 
> >'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.

<checks registration years of vehicles owned>

Looks like you're wrong there.
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