Can You Identify The Age Of A Car By Its Registration?

Wednesday, 10. September 2008

Maybe we need the RAC to spell out the obvious when a third of the country doesn’t know what APR is and according to www.honestjohn.co.uk and British Car Auctions (BCA) a third of the public don’t know how to tell the age of a car by its number plate. Well strangely I can’t tell the age of a car by its number plate either. And I don’t consider myself to be as daft as a brick! For example, if you saw a ‘57’ plate what year was it registered? It could have been 2007 or up to the end of February 2008, so is it really that obvious? ‘08’ clearly means a 2008 car but what about ‘58’. It would definitely be a 2008 car until the start of 2009, then if you see a ‘58’ car it could be 2008 or 2009. See perfectly straightforward. The question they should have asked is ‘do you give a damn’ to which I’m sure the vast majority would say ‘No!’ By Graham Hill