Late registration madness

[forbeslongden]

Another 207 outstaying it’s welcome....

[stuboy]

Another 207 outstaying it’s welcome....

can u leave a note to say they need to bridge it

[adw1977]

 

Yes, Ledbury and Apple Maestros can be found right up to 51 plate, but they are usually registered as Rovers, or something odd like PPG or TETRover.

This one, however:

 

 

Is this the latest registered AUSTIN out there?  A whole decade after the Austin name was officially dropped.

[sierraman]

It's just nice to see a Mk.2 which looks like someone gives a shit about it.

Mines on a Y plate.

[holbeck]

The Ford overlapping model thing is quite logical really. The new Fiesta launched 96 MY at Dagenham and Cologne. But Valencia continued with the old model badged as classic for one year simply as they needed to produce something until they were ready to make the Ka from 97 MY.

 

Similarly Escorts at Halewood until they were ready to start X type production.

[sierraman]

Heres mine. The red Y plate ones MOT has just run out, probably heading for the local banger circuit.

[HMC]

Was almost rendered incapable of taking a pic when I saw this...

 

[Pillock]

The other thing manufacturers do is up-spec the old model - electric windows, air-con etc etc to keep them selling.

Unless you're Vauxhall in which case you gradually remove features from the model as the years go on.

 

I know Ford got bitten by the Sierra, and I can kind of see that in the Escort and Focus selling side by side. But the MK3 and MK4 Fiesta weren't a whole lot different so that smacks more of "somebody forgot to read a fax about stopping production" and there was an accidental field full of them. "Quick, order up some Classic badges".

 

Renault did the same with the Clio. Moved the numberplate to the bumper and called it the Campus when the next model came out, even though it wasn't a massive step. Again, I can understand why they did it 5->Clio but not once the Clio was established.

[GeordieInExile]

Was almost rendered incapable of taking a pic when I saw this...

 

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Vanden Plas, too!

[brownnova]

Was almost rendered incapable of taking a pic when I saw this...

 

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What the actual....

 

How has that happened!!

[bezzabsa]

Was almost rendered incapable of taking a pic when I saw this...

 

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Initial Report for D654EES

 

Registration D654EES

Manufacturer

Vanden Plas

Vehicle Image

Not Available

Stolen No

Exported No

MOT MOT Status Expires: 30 Aug 2019 Days Left 124 days left

Road Tax Road Tax Status Expires: 01 Oct 2019 Days Left 156 days left

Vehicle Details Manufacturer Vanden Plas Model 1500 Colour Grey Vehicle Type Not Available Fuel Type Petrol Engine Size 1748cc BHP Not Available Vehicle Age 31 years 10 months Registered Date 01 June 1987 Year 1987 Insurance Details Insurance Status Check if it's insured

[bezzabsa]

Model 1500......but 1750 engine????  Brand new shell perhaps???

[bezzabsa]

Jeez....it's popular...

even has a complete page of Google results LOL

https://www.google.com/search?q=d654ees&oq=d654ees&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.1911j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

 

AAAANNND 

Mystery solved!!!

https://picclick.co.uk/1979-Austin-Vanden-Plas-Allegro1750cc-42052-miles-Huge-132784835097.html

[brownnova]

Wow, how fascinating! It’s amazing how it sat around for 7 years. Can you imagine a 2012 Renault Laguna (say for example) sitting around and being registered as a 19 plate today!

[GeordieInExile]

I want to know what the good doctor paid for it when he bought it new, and what sort of discount he managed to get.

[AnthonyG]

I saw a 58 plate Peugeot 607 at the weekend. I sort of assumed they sold them on the Continent until about 2010, but I did think they stopped trying to sell them here about 2005.

 

I strongly suspect Peugeot UK were the first registered owner....and the discount to whoever did end-up owning it was probably about 50% of the list price.

[GeordieInExile]

I would really like a 607 at some point. Handsome things.

[Conan]

Wow, how fascinating! It’s amazing how it sat around for 7 years. Can you imagine a 2012 Renault Laguna (say for example) sitting around and being registered as a 19 plate today!

 

Last year over here a closing dealer was selling a 2010 Proton Savvy, brand new, delivery miles. Another was selling a 2003 Alfa Romeo 156, again, brand new, delivery miles. They were both ex-showroom floor demonstrator.

 

Due to the registration system, we don't do late registration madness as such and so they would be completely unremarkable on the road, which is a shame.

[Iamgroot]

How about this one? Not much into campers but it should be a mk 6 transit age wise

 

[brownnova]

W reg Maestro van!! 

[Iamgroot]

Phwoar

[eifion]

7 hours ago, brownnova said:

W reg Maestro van!! 

I spotted that last weekend as well, presumably on its way to Llandudno for the show. I knew about the Ledbury and Apple 2000 hatchbacks but I've never seen a van that late.

[brownnova]

I was walking towards it thinking it must be M reg... but no! 

[Pillock]

So what countries were building those that late?

MOT checker says the mileage is in a mix of KM and miles, and it's Manufacturer: unknown, Model: unknown which suggests it's an import and the work experience lad at the DVLA tapped it in.

[brownnova]

1 hour ago, Pillock said:

So what countries were building those that late?

MOT checker says the mileage is in a mix of KM and miles, and it's Manufacturer: unknown, Model: unknown which suggests it's an import and the work experience lad at the DVLA tapped it in.

It had something weird on the tax disc (which it was still proudly displaying)... but after several gins this evening I can’t remember what it said:.. 

[martc]

On 5/2/2019 at 1:02 PM, Iamgroot said:

How about this one? Not much into campers but it should be a mk 6 transit age wise

 

1948 Ford - now that is bloody late registration madness. It should look more like this (with a mattress on the floor) -

[quicksilver]

WTF happened here then? KW52 YZY, date of first registration 1st December 2015 and year of manufacture 2002!

 

As I was pondering the owner appeared so I asked him. Apparently it's actually a 1977 car but because the Italian logbook was issued in 2002 that got put down as the year of manufacture and it's too much hassle to get it changed now.

[Pillock]

I wonder if that will eventually bite him on the bum with emissions and tax being based on a 2002 car rather than a 1977 car? He's got to wait another 25 years for historic tax surely?

[quicksilver]

That's a very good point and surely he's already paying out far more than he needs to. As a 2002 car it'll be on emissions-based tax which I guess will be pretty high as it was built to 1970s emissions standards (although there's no CO2 figure on its DVLA record) but getting it correctly registered as a 1977 car would put it straight into tax and MOT exempt territory. He's Italian so maybe he isn't familiar with the intricacies of the UK licensing system and doesn't realise how much money he could save by getting the error corrected.

[quicksilver]

More Italian import weirdness. Looks like some goon at the DVLA issued a D-prefix instead of a D-suffix.