There were never many cars in the Netherlands as it is now

Posted on 23-06-2015 at 12:01 by MauritsH – 61 Comments”

Unfortunately, not all of them tranentrekkend awesome if the 991 GT3 RS, but it is a stub.

Eight million pieces. So many cars drive there at this moment in the Netherlands and that’s a record. In the year 2000 was that the number at 6.3 million copies, an increase of almost 27%. The number of inhabitants rose in the same period, about 5.5%, so the average number of cars per person has also increased. Good news, but that the sell back on the rise was already over.

The growth of the nation’s vehicle fleet is partly explained by the fact that more and more older people and women have a car. That last group of works nowadays, more often than vroegâh, what makes a car (and driving license) comes in handy. A quarter of the households have a second car, 50% of the households has at least one.

At the same time, young people the car more at the dealer. Only 20% of the people aged under 25 has a car. Perhaps because they more often live in cities and thus public transport and/or junkenfiets from the feet, but we expect young people to make their money rather for other things to spend.

The number of engines took also. 4% of the adults in our country has a motorcycle, where that percentage in 2000 to slightly more than 2.5%. Unfortunately, it took in the same period the number of smelly and noisy mopeds, where the volume of freight traffic decreased thanks to the much talked about competition from Eastern Europe. In total there are now 10.8 million motor vehicles.

Photo: Porsche 991 GT3 RS on EN plate, through the Autojunks