If you wanted to buy a brand new car this weekend, could you?

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22. I might be able to buy a new car that's not officially a new car

In Japan, new cars that have been sitting on the lot for a few months are often downgraded to "used car" status even if the odometer reading is essentially zero. The reason has to do with the inspection system. A new car is inspected when it leaves the factory, and its 3-year inspection is effective starting at that point. The 3-year effective inspection period is a selling point for new cars, because they have to be rigorously inspected every two years after the initial 3-year inspection expires. So dealers will often deeply discount cars that have been wasting their inspection period sitting on the lot. That means if I could scrape up the cash, I could probably get a "new but used" sub-subcompact with a 3-cylinder motorcycle engine and 2 to 2 1/2 years of inspection for around $9,000.