Klassiekermarkt: 40+-ers get love, 190D’s trifle away

Posted on 26-02-2016 at 14:02 by jaapiyo – 38 Comments”

We have some new figures on the klassiekermarkt in the Netherlands.

It will be the autominnende Dutchman cannot fail to notice that a number of years ago, the rules surrounding classic cars on the shovel went. Too many people pay no motor vehicle tax more and The Hague found the time to get there, what to do. Finally, top-level officials that are not functioning will be a new, well paid job offered, and there is cold hard cash.

Anyway, a marketable reason to invent taxes to increase they are in the Hague hugely skilled in. The easiest excuse in these times is often the environment. The way they had, that dirty old pastries to the streets with such a pleasant benzinegeur. Ok, ok, I admit, often it was also a smelly dieselwalm from an old Mercedes 190D with a pennypincher behind the wheel.

But well, apart from the possible real motivations behind the regelverscherping, it was ultimately decided to only cars of 40 years and older to be exempt from motor vehicle tax. For cars between 30 and 40 years old, there is a compromise; petrol cars in this age group are exempt from tax, as long as they are suspended from December to February*. Role of metal under 30 years old you will have bad luck; you should just pay a full new license, despite that you have several city centers no more comes with your youngtimer.

But what this has had consequences for the sale of vintage cars? With this, we have now numbers of VWE vehicle information and documentation. Actually, you can even have come up, because if we Dutch have to pay neighborhoods we prefer to something else. The selling of classic cars of 25 to 40 years old in recent years also dropped sharply. Selling of classic cars from 25 to 30 years, in both 2014 and 2015 every year down by 19% and the import of cars from 25 to 30 years old-since 2011, with a whopping 95% decreased. Also sell cars in the age group of 30 to 40-year lows. On the other hand, the sales of classics from 40 years old since 2011, however, with more than 40% grown. Were there in 2011 9.855 passenger cars of 40 years and older purchased by consumers, in 2015 were 13.912 copies. In any case, there is a bit of good news so for the classic-loving compatriot.

Under this Methusalem of the cars, Volkswagen is by far the most widely sold brand. Good old Ferdinand Porsche’s Beetle is the most popular model. Notable climbers in the top 20 last year, Chevrolet and Daf. A perhaps unknown duck in the woodpile is the Dutch brand Nekaf. If you never have heard of; it’s here mainly for the Nekaf Jeep, the Dutch-built version of the American army jeep. Other now lost brands that are kept alive by the lovers of MG, Triumph and Austin, all still good for at least a couple of hundred to sell. Check the table below for the statistics.

*observant reader and owner of a car from 1989 @kwatkam reports that the sneaky Hague boys yet an additional snag have built into the regulations. The ‘transitional arrangement’ only applies to cars that at the time of the entry into effect of the rules were old enough to be eligible. The rule does not apply to the new oldies (since 1989), who have until their 40th birthday to wait on motor vehicle tax-exemption.