original price of minis...

probably something like this:

FWIW, Theo van den Bogaard

wowsers... that's incredible!

Thanks Theo :)

snipped-for-privacy@uvt.nl wrote:

Wow...the old mini cost more than the new mini.

hehe - I've just noticed that those are dutch prices :) guess my study might be along the lines of "mini demand in Holland" :)

.. either that or if you're studying economy: the exchange rate of the GBP to DFL over the years the Mini was produced ..

(It's all in DFL and not Euro's, so theoretically you would only need the exchange rate of each year to convert to GBP)

the first line in the graph:

In message , chris snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com writes

One of the selling points of the original Mini was that it should be under £500, so the first ones were £497 including purchase tax. A heater and carpets were extra, rubber mats were standard (just as well because they leaked like sieves). The first vans were £340 (no purchase tax) I think, passenger seat extra. You need to adjust the prices to take account of inflation. This site

Try contacting the Heritage Motor Centre because their sure to have records there, but I'm sure the prices and other information has been published in lots of Mini Books over the years too.

Taffy

Thanks for all your help guys - I'll have a dig at the heritage motor centre to try to get the equivalent prices because, like you say David, I need to adjust for inflation and it's proving incredibly difficult to find the dutch inflation rates (at least on the internet...)!

Cheers!

Chris

Taffy wrote:

Would this help?

Import from the UK , to the UK?

Don't snip the post to which you have replied then you may have a better comprehension.

But there may have been VAT in lieu of other duty. Maybe it stayed the same value.

No...dick head...I fully comprehend the question. Again...why are you saying it was imported from the UK, to the UK? Sounds like the government is giving you a f*ck job.

apart from VAT (BTW in Dutch) we have BPM - extra tax on cars because they are considered 'luxury goods' .. can't remember when that was first introduced .. VAT rates may have changed over the years of production of the Mini of course ..

(see also:

FWIW, Theo van den Bogaard

But are they British produced Mini's or models constructed in Italy, Spain, Belguim, Portugal etc?

Taffy

Well not a clue as usual - which YOU snipped BTW - now where are the prices being quoted from???????? Pot Kettle Black

No...I'm black. Don't you know how to read previous posts? You would then see what was snipped, prices from UK to UK.

could be any of the above, and even CKD assembly in Holland itself .. Italy - the (or at least part of the) innocenti range was on sale here Spain - the dutch Jubilee model was produced in spain Belgium - the 1100 special's came from there Portugal - moke's of course

FWIW, Theo van den Bogaard