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

Adrian wrote:
> Tom in Missouri (toomuch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) gurgled happily, sounding much like
> they were saying : 
> 
>> Model years are much more complicated than simply ways for
>> manufacturers to cheat you out of your money.
>>
>> Environmental issues -
>>
>> The EPA in the US issues regulations based on model years. Yes, they
>> could say all cars registered after 1/1/2000 must comply with ...,
> 
> Which is the way it's done here.
> 
> DVLA keep no manufacturing date information. The one exception is when a

> car is registered as a historic vehicle (free road tax), which requires
a 
> manufacturing date prior to 1/1/73. It's the owner's responsibility to 
> prove that date, usually by writing to the manufacturer.
> 
>> Should Chevrolet be punished for building a car built to 1978
>> standards that is first registered in 1984 or 1988, which of course
>> does not meet those 1984 or 1988 standards?
> 
> That's the way it works here. You find a new-unregistered MGB, you won't
be 
> able to register it as new. You can register it on an age-related plate,

> though, by proving the manufacture date.

Model years mean little in the U.K.  Configuration control and the 
concept of interchangeable parts within model years was never understood 
by those folk.

-- 
PJ