User blog comment:LilyLovegood/ The films do not take place during the 90's/@comment-64.255.180.51-20110425232945

I read somewhere (maybe here, maybe IMDB) that all the cars on Privet Drive (including the Dursleys) were period Vauxhalls (80's for the first scene ever and 90's for later in SS and CoS). Of course anyone can have a ten year old car, but why would the film makers go to that trouble when dates dont matter? Why not just use modern (ie 2000's) cars? The other stuff you use as evidence are mistakes. If it doesnt detract from your enjoyment of the films then no problem, but dont try to get everyone to accept that those mistakes arent really mistakes. Then again, maybe youre right that the film makers didnt make things consistent because they just dont matter.