Demonstration car

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Typical demonstration cars at a dealership: Mazda2 and Mazda MX-5 with a Mazda dealer lettering

A demonstration vehicle is to be understood as a commercially used vehicle that is used or has served a new vehicle dealer primarily for the purpose of demonstration (inspection and test drive) and has not yet been approved for an end user. According to the BGH, the term demonstration car does not contain any information about the age of the vehicle.

Definition of terms

  • An order vehicle is configured and ordered at the customer's request. It has no previous owner and has a mileage of almost 0 km (a few km can be achieved through loading and the like). It can take several months for delivery.
  • In a day registration is a process in which a vehicle to be sold by a dealer for a single day allowed is. This is done with the intention of being able to sell this vehicle to end customers at a higher discount afterwards.
  • A used car is a vehicle that was registered for one or more end customers and has a mileage significantly greater than 0 km.

Individual evidence

  1. VIII ZR 61/09 judgment of the BGH on this topic from September 15, 2010 at www.openjur.de.