"Aidan Stanger" wrote in message
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Dave Liney wrote:

If you actually read what I had posted you would have realised that I
said
that the car industry does not want the changeover at 12 months or 6
months,
they would rather have a continuous series.

I don't believe you. Surely the motor industry loves the fact that so
many people buy a new car just because the year identifier on the number
plates has changed?

Most industries would prefer, for the same number of sales annually, to have
them level across the year rather than have a significant dip and peak once
or twice a year.

I don't think the changeover makes people buy cars. It makes them buy a new
car, if they are going to buy one at all, just after the changeover rather
than in the month before but that is a different thing altogether.

Dave.

Dave Liney wrote:
"Aidan Stanger" wrote...
Dave Liney wrote:

If you actually read what I had posted you would have realised that I
said that the car industry does not want the changeover at 12 months
or 6 months, they would rather have a continuous series.

I don't believe you. Surely the motor industry loves the fact that so
many people buy a new car just because the year identifier on the number
plates has changed?

Most industries would prefer, for the same number of sales annually, to have
them level across the year rather than have a significant dip and peak once
or twice a year.

But most would give that up for more sales annually.

With a fluctuating demand, they have the opportunity to manipulate their
pricing policy to take advantage of it.

I don't think the changeover makes people buy cars. It makes them buy a new
car, if they are going to buy one at all, just after the changeover rather
than in the month before but that is a different thing altogether.

The changeover certainly made people buy cars when it was annual. Did
the change to every 6 months make people realise how silly that was?