A "pre-registered" car is an unused car that has been registered, usually to qualify for a dealer bonus for registering a certain amount of cars in a month. Anyone who buys it effectively buys a secondhand car with one name already on the V5C registration document and a warranty dating from the date of registration to the original keeper. A "nearly new" car is merely a used car that is "nearly new". "Nearly new" can be taken to be anything up to a year old.