Some large sites have vehicles that don't get used on public roads and therefore don't get registered so they are covered the same as other plant and equipment for insurance purposes.
James

..the conversation led to the thought that new vehicle warranty may be unavailable if the brand new vehicle is sold to an individual (or enterprise)...but not registered ....hence that grey area

There are some vehicle missing from the GMH service/warranty records, these obviously never had a warranty commenced.

farm insurance will cover any vehicle. Rego has no issue with it. Cars are covered if you are on private land even if the driver is unlicensed. I only know this because I asked our agent what happened if one of my kids pranged one of our cars while driving around the farm.
So I would think your warranty would always come down to how you operated the vehicle. I doubt that mines get much warranty on any of their vehicles.

A mate of mine bought an unlicenced xk120 and couldn't afford the rego etc for a while as it needed a lot of repairs, but he was able to get insurance.
I would say that the cars not listed for warranty were used for racing or such, you could not expect warranty for that.
I have a list somewhere from GMH showing a number of VN commys that were exculded warranty for that reason, and I believe it is not uncommon for dealers reps ( not just Holden) to attend gymkhanas, drags, navigation trials, and similar motoring events to obtain registration and or engine/chassis numbers for the express purpose of denying warranty.
the lesson is don't let anyone see your rego or chassis etc details.
I don't see why mines would not get warranty the car people know where they are going to be used, and the number of vehicles bought by mines would make it a very silly move for a manufacturer to deny warranty, I know of one case where a business not a mine who purchased about 150 cars a year they had a service problem that the dealer would not rectify it was a tailshaft vibration they had it balanced and rebalanced and new unis etc but flaty refused refused to replace the tailshaft so the supplies officer at the company when ordering the next years cars which were replaced every 40,000 or 2 years he simply crossed that maker off the shopping list and went to a rival manufacturer so both the dealer and the manufacturer missed out. for the sake of a tailshaft worth about $800 I think the loss was a deal worth that year over a million and for the next few years as well. then they had to do a super deal to get the business back.

I agree John, a lot of those missing were probably race cars but they were never registered or probably even sold through a normal dealer or they'd be recorded in the service/warranty report (reports were for service as well as warranty). There are a few XU1's underlined in the microfiched LC-J report that may have been purposely underlined on the original master paper report to possibly signify that there would be no warranty claims entertained. Even HQ 350/Caprice's that were never built for sale to premises on Australian soil appear in the HQ report (note that Consulates are not technically Australian soil). Whereas cars destroyed or sold as wrecks prior to reaching a dealer's stock are missing (there are gaps were the HX LE's burnt in Perth would be in the report for example). Then there is the odd car not reported by the dealer when the reports were done, I've found a few mainly NZ delivered HZ's that are missing, they were completed about 1-2 months prior to the end of the HZ report but the paperwork has not yet made it back for entry into the IBM360 prior to the reports being run.

I think the issue was a car could be regoed as a demonstrator and supplied by a dealer to a privateer for a race meet with the dealer's advertising all over it. Then after the race sell it on the lot as a used car but still with new car warranty.

Great topic gents, an interesting read to say the least.
Never thought of this before.
Cheers.