private cars rather than commercial ones

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01cite10Angliholic12cite12br
10I like buying private cars rather than commercial ones.12br
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00I prefer buying private cars rather than commercial ones.02br
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00I would rather buy private cars than commercial ones.0-

0Thanks, Yoong.02br
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00But my problem is on "commercial cars." Does it sound right? IF yes, what does it refer to?0-

0Are you a business owner? If you are, in some countries, you're required to purchase commercial vehicles for your business use as it's illegal to use private vehicles for commercial purposes. Commercial vehicles are regulated differently such as perhaps having higher taxes. This is just my opinion.0-

0But my problem is on "commercial cars." Does it sound right? IF yes, what does it refer to?02br
00I would use the term - company car or company vehicle to mean, as N2G said, a vehicle owned by a company, as opposed to a private vehicle which is owned privately by an individual. 0-

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00I think I could relate to Angliholic’s question. In 010200, 00 and a few other Asian countries, a “Private Car” is a privately owned passenger vehicle as this term was coined from the old days when only very rich people can own a private car while majority of the population were taking very crowded and hot-humid public buses.00

0In the UK the usual term is "company car", not "commercial car".02br
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00Another common phrase, "commercial vehicle", covers vans, trucks, coaches, bulldozers etc. -- all the types of vehicle that you'd expect to be used by companies in the course of their business -- but not usually cars.0-

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0I'm probably wrong, but I read Angliholic's sentence in an entirely different way.02br
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00He's talking about the process of buying a car. Many people shop for cars in the classified ads of the paper, or in local advertising publications, or on the internet. Other people prefer to go to a "dealer," or to a "used car lot." While dealers also advertise in the classifieds

0I've got your point, but I don't think it's that reading ... 0-

0I'm quite sure you're right, Marius. It was just my first impression.02br
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00At first, I thought Angliholic was trying to express his own thought, but then I realized he's asking what the sentence means. Context might reveal this to be spoken by the company purchasing agent.02br
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00Anyway, possible renderings of this second option would be,02b