Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
Perhaps you don't understand the meaning of 'stock' as applied to
cars?

A stock car is something entirely different!

As regards racing, perhaps. In normal car speak in the UK it is used
to indicate a 'base' or 'poverty' model, although it's not much used
these days. And that's obviously what I took the OP to mean by it.

That's usually referred to as the 'base' model. In all (?) the dealerships
I worked in, 'stock' referred to the vehicles we had 'in stock' or 'on the
board' at that moment.

In the US, 'stock' refers to an unmodified car