On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 13:17:34 +0100, David Cantrell wrote:

There are bicycles out there on which the purchaser would pay a
considerably higher amount of VAT than they could on a new car.

Really? There exists a bicycle with a price tag over a million quid?

You're not very bright, are you?

Now now, no name-calling please.

It was more a statement of the bleedin' obvious than name-calling. The
other conclusion is that you're being deliberately obtuse in a vain
attempt to score some vacuous point.

Which?

Here's a clue. What I _actually_ said equates to some expensive
bicycles cost more than some cheap new cars.

If that were the case then you would have said "... than they would on a
new car". Instead you said "... than they could on a new car". One
letter difference.

Umm, no. Because they're very different things. I can't imagine the kind
of person who buys a £10k roadbike then buying a new Cit C1 or Dacia, so
"would" does not apply. But they could have.