Many believe, not without reason, that the best car is a new car. It is fresh and shiny, the interior has not been overwritten and there is a smell of a new car in it. All mechanisms work like clockwork and you don’t expect any unpleasant surprises from him along the way. But it turned out that people interpret the concept of the word “new” in relation to a car in different ways.
Of course most of us are rational people and think logically – new means new – fresh from a car dealership, this is the chosen answer 65% readers. Those who look at life in a practical way believe that cars with a mileage of no more than 30 thousand km and up to a year old completely fall under the concept of new – there are many of them fifteen% and ten% respectively. The answers “under three years old” and with a mileage of no more than 60 thousand km accounted for a total of ten% to vote.
Expert Commentary
Ilya Pimenoveditor of “Behind the Wheel”:
— Like the majority of respondents, I believe that a car recently purchased from a car dealer and with minimum mileage can be considered new. But what is “recently bought” and “minimum mileage”? If the car left the showroom a year ago and has been in a dry garage all this time, it is new. But even if it has driven 30,000 km (more than the average) and thrown it away, it is relatively new, although during this period the car can be “abandoned” so that it becomes worse than the old one. Many examples.
And there are cars that, many years after release, look, drive and are experienced as new. Although of course they are very rare. And according to the documents, they cannot be considered new.
Officially, new cars in Russia are cars that are less than three years old (calculated from the date of issue). So, officials decided in the first half of the 90s (order of the State Customs Committee of Russia of 15.08.94 N 416). You may not agree, but this is enshrined in the laws of the Russian Federation.
Reference
“New vehicles – vehicles from the moment of release of which less than 3 years have passed, inclusive, regardless of the mileage” (State Customs Committee of the Russian Federation: Order No. 416 “On approval of the general rules for the movement of vehicles across the customs border of the Russian Federation by individuals”; paragraph 1, point 1.4).