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Denne "fiktive" historien er en del år gammel (Første Bondevik regjeringen). Jeg sendte den til Amcar og de trykket den. Men reglene er de samme i dag. så,,, for de som ikke har lest den.. Here you go.
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Bil bransjen må være Norges underligste bransje å jobbe i. Se bare på rammebetingelsene våre. De må være kokt ihop av byråkrater med ødelagt langtidsminne og kommunikasjonssvikt. Se bare hva som skjer når den nyinnflyttete amerikaneren Mr Texas strener inn i butikken….
Historien er forfattet av en daglig leder firma som selger Toyota i Stavanger.

Mr. Texas ville ha åtte seter…..

Mr Texas strener inn i butikken der de store varebilene, kombibilene og minibussene står rundt salgskonsulent Olsen. Sånne teite samtaler foregår jo alltid på engelsk.
Mr Texas sier: ”I want a new van , a big one , not a minivan ”
Olsen forstår han mener et kjøretøy med mer enn 6 seter. Han aner hva som kommer, og begynner klok av skade meget forsiktig: How many seats do you want ?
Mr Texas: Oh, my wife will be driving kids around let me have 8 seats.
Mr Olsen: we don`t have that. Mr Texas kikker inn i en av bilene og sier noe indignert: But this car has 10 seats in it! Just take out two, and I will take it.
Mr Olsen: You see, Mr Texas, this car is a minibus, and to be a minibus, it has to have at least 10 seats. If you take out two seats, it becomes a personcar, and the price will be more than the double. Besides, if you want to drive the minibus, you need to take a special driving licence. But you have two folding seats in the van, so in reality you have only eight seats. Mr Texas looks around: So you are telling me that me and my wife must have new driving licence to drive a 10 seater car with space for 8 people.
Mr Olsen: Yes. But we have other solutions: You could buy a kombi Mr Texas, a kombi is a van with 5 or six seats, and a wall, and it costs nothing more than a bus!
Mr Texas: But I want 8 seats. Can you move that wall back so I can have two rows of seats?
Mr Olsen: You see, Mr Texas, this is actually a commercial van taxed lower than a personcar, but for it to kombi, it needs to have space behind the wall for a box 1.70 meters long, in more than 50% of the length of the cargo area. So if you want an eight seater kombi you will have to settle for extremely small seats, or find a car about 7meters long.
Mr Texas: My Cadillac Limo in Houston is a little shorter than that. But hey, what about that camping car?
It looks nice, with a seating arangement that could seat 8 persons in there.
Mr Olsen: Well you see, it is only a four seater, because the number of seats you can register a camping van for, is dependent on how many people that can sleep in it. So this camper sleeps 4 people, so you can only be four persons. But remember that it is forbidden to stay in the beds while you are driving.
Mr Texas: So the number of seats in this car is dependent on the number of beds. Sounds weirder than King Crimson to me….. Do you have a price list on this van?
Mr Olsen: Yes, but I have to explain…The van X with turbodiesel and two seats cost 220.000 kr. The same van X as a kombi 5 seater costs 280.000kr. The same van X as a 8 seater personcar costs about 500.000kr. Then you can have the 4 seater camper for about 330.000kr and of course you can have the minibus 10 seater for 270.000kr + the 4000kr for two driving licenses.
Mr Texas: So ten seats are cheaper than 5 seats, and 8 seats is twice as expensive as 5 seats, and the basic van costs 220.000kr witch is about 30.000 USD and for that I could buy a brand new Cadillac Eldorado back home. I thought you had a Christian prime minister in Norway, but these prices must have been made in hell….Can I buy a van and 6 seats and put them in when I need them?
Mr Olsen: No then we would have to register the car as a personcar, and the price would be 500.000kr.
Mr texas: And what is the purpose of these tax rules?
Mr Olsen : I wish I knew…. It has something to do with the fact that having a car in Norway is a luxury and it pollutes so the taxes should be high….
Mr Texas: Oh really???

Sinnsyke regler, spør du meg. Sinnsyke regler, sier kundene. Vi har ikke laget dem, sier Biltilsynet. Nå vi skal se på dem, sier politikerene.
Ha en god tur og kos deg med bilen din. Her i Norge har du i hvert fall ikke betalt for lite for den…..

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Min far sin suburban har 8 seter, dog den ble tatt inn fra statene når vi flyttet derfra. Lurer på om Suburban solgt fra Chevrolet forhandlerene kom med 8 seter? har ikke sett en eneste 95-99 8 seter enda

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