stationtone wrote:
" LTI Vehicles suggests that a typical WAV costs £25,000 new"
http://www.lti.co.uk/home.php 
"Allied Vehicles argues that a national standard for WAVs will stimulate market competition and innovation."they would
Hardly sitting on the fence on this one are they...
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(a) the assumption that saloon car drivers buy used cars, but WAV-drivers buy new vehicles is incorrect, as the factors behind the purchase decision are unchanged regardless of vehicle choice. On the basis of revised assumptions, LTI Vehicles calculates that the overall costs to drivers of replacing 35,000 saloon cars over 12 years would reduce by £70m to £97m if all drivers bought used vehicles.
(b) more used WAVs are sold each year than new, so the used vehicle market is vibrant and costs to drivers are lower. LTI Vehicles suggests that a typical WAV costs £25,000 new but £9,000 when six years old.
(c) the basis of these revised assumptions is flawed. LTI Vehicles calculates that the overall costs to drivers of replacing 35,000 saloon cars over 12 years would reduce by £70m to £97m if all drivers bought used vehicles.
in that document it trys to play down the real costs involved by suggesting that the trade wont suffer so badly because contrary to the assumption that the trade will not all be buying brand new vehicles to conform or comply and that many more will buying used vehicles so it needent be expensive at all....FFs..just where are all these 2nd hand Specification meeting WAVs going to appear from? out of the ether maybe!...are their current owners going to happily sell them off to those in the trade that are a tad short on the greenbacks to buy new ones..I doubt it.
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