Living in a Small Country

Living in a small country sure has its advantages. It of course has its quirks too. For instance ridiculously interesting facts abound. Ireland has its own Central Statistics Office (the CSO), who routinely release bits of interesting stuff. However I'm writing on facts reported by the Irish Times on June 17, 2015. The article titled "Junk the new registration system and go back to the old format, says leading distributor" (Motors Section, p. 2), reported the following:

From January to May 2015, the following have been sold in Ireland: 

• One pink car (and 71 purple)
• One Bentley
• 78 convertibles
• 15 'G' carbon dioxide emissions category vehicles (By the way, G = worst)

Also, 1.53% of new car sales have been "Electric", which upon further inspection means any of the following:

• Electric
• Petrol/electric
• Diesel/electric
• Petrol/plug-in electric hybrid
• Petrol & gas (whatever that means, I'm assuming some sort of natural gas)

Assuming a linear relationship exists between population and number of pink cars sold, a quick calculation reveals an estimate of 69 pink cars sold in the US in the same time - and 69 Bentleys too - probably none of them pink.

This entry is repeated on UFOD - useless fact of the day.