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Age of vehicles.
I am amazed while reading the forum and looking at your garages, just how many "old" cars and trucks there are listed on here.
In the UK the vehicle registration plates have "age identifier" numbering (even to what half of the year it was first registered). Finding vehicles prior to 2001 are like hunting for hens teeth, with most vehicles less than 10 years old. About the only vehicles fitted with pre-2001 plates are, like mine, "vanity plates" (you can fit older plates to a newer car but not newer plates to an old car).
On the site here I see tons of 90's vehicles, some even older. Perhaps that is because the owners of new cars can afford not to be too concerned about their fuel costs!
In the UK there has been a huge increase in personal lease hire recently, so people are leasing brand new vehicles then after 4 years they are sold on the secondhand market. This depresses the prices of older cars and they become less attractive to keep running. The less enlightened think, why spend £200 to fix it when for another £200 I can replace it with something a good bit newer. So the old cars go to the scrap metal brokers.
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