Major changes to the MOT test on 20th of May 2018

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Originally Posted by ThomasG

Pardon me for interrupting..
but having a 2003 V70 myself, I`m not that keen on calling a 2014 model "old"..

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I agree. A car registered in 2014 is not old. But I think the definition of 'old' is changing. There are so many cars on the road now that are pretty much brand new. A car over 10 now is increasingly considered to be ancient. We're entering a new era of motoring. Us owner drivers are in decline. More and more people are getting throw away cars on lease. Perhaps this will stimulate the economy, I don't know. But as an aside, I sometimes worry about the small independent garages that keep very good mechanics in work looking after our older cars, as more and more folks lease their disposable cars and have any maintenance done by the main dealer. I sometimes think maybe after the lease is up, someone will drive around in a cheap ex lease for a couple of years before scrapping it as uneconomical to repair (and probably too uninspiring to get passion about enough to want to save it).