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Originally Posted by svxistentialist
Regards your point on non-US SVXes having different production years and registration years with the delay between production date and eventual registration, there is a difficulty there all right. This difficulty does also apply to the US though; a lot of SVXes sold as '92 models, the year of biggest sales I think, were actually manufactured in Gunma in the latter half of 1991. How many of those owners will be happy to have their cars now re-classified as '91 Model Year cars?
One of my silver UK cars is first registered in 1995 but I know it was actually manufactured in 1993. I think using the year of first registration as the only preferred differentiator has the benefit of simplicity. It is not feasible to be taking account of the [normal] stockpiling by manufacturers, distributors and dealers when looking at mileage this far down the road.
Joe  |
I think the US system tied to the actual year of production is the obvious best method to track vehicles.
I say this because as owners and collectors we are most interested in how a vehicle is equipped and does it have manufacturing engineering improvements done over time. For example--later models had transmission modifications. Change from OBDI to OBDII. Parts interchangeability and applicability. Parts manuals are based on manufacture date.
Its a truly screwed up system that would classify a model year based on first year of registration. That essentially tells you nothing pertinent about the vehicle.
Lee