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Old May 30, 2006 | 9:18 am
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Originally Posted by ollieinmelbourne
you need to compare apples with apples or maybe German cars?? vis a vis a nearly new BMW (QF) with a banged-up rusty 30 year old VW bug/beetle that desperately needs some money invested in it (UA).
Complete rubbish,

Here's some of UA's fleet age taken from this years report.

Fleet:

744 in fleet - 30 w/avg age of 10 years
763 in fleet - 35 w/avg age of 11 years
772 in fleet - 52 w/avg age of 7 years
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