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What year ?
Probably a stupid question to ask you guys but I am new to buying a pe-owned/used/secondhand car in the USA.
I go to Kelly's Blue Book or Edmunds to get the price and they ask me for the "year".
What is the "year" ?
Is it :
1 Year of manufacture as printed on the little sticker on the driver's door frame ?
2 Year of registration by first buyer as reported on Carfax ?
3 Model year ?
I can't believe it's 3 because local dealers here are selling "2014 models" which, as we are only in March, could have been built in 2012.
On another tack, I trotted along to my local car auction site hoping to bid there for a good used car. To my astonishment I was more or less thrown out by a guy who said "it's dealers only, we have to get a profit from the public somehow". I've bought many cars in the UK at auctions where dealers and Joe Public mix happily. Is this a Massaachusetts thing or US wide ? Seems to smack very much of a restrictive practice in the Land of the Free.
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