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Q: How can you tell the age of cars on the road here?

  As I recall, in England you can tell by the last letter on the number-plate. Not sure if it still operates that way and i'm not a car or bike enthusiast myself but I did buy my first car about 25 years ago when I was 20, which by my reckoning means i've been driving longer than about 99 percent of the population here. I'd just be interested to know when most cars I see being driven around badly came off the lot. Looks to me like most of them are about three years old. Never seem to see an old junker at all. Seems a defining factor in answering the question of why drivers here suck so badly. Because it's all novices being trained by novices.

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never thought about.. makes sense though.  so when does the vicious cycle of novices training novices stop?

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You can't the license plates are just <city><5 characters> no system as such apart from that. 

 

You can tell by looking at the wind screen, a surprising amount of people leave their insurance stickers there.

 

Maintenance with Chinese characteristics means that some cars look old really fast. 

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Take the number of dents, scrapes and scratches and divide by 20 to get the cars age.

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I have noticed a lack of older cars on the roads.  I've even asked about buying a 2nd hand car but have been warned that they've likely been involved in an accident and repaired shoddily.  And used cars are expensive here.  Perhaps locally built cars have a limited life span..

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Difficult to tell apart from looking at the windscreen, there are not that many second hand car's on the road because the only car's that make it that long are the expensive, luxury ones which can be picked up for around 50-100k.

 

 

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