According to a recent study revealed by Cristian Campos, in 2005 4% of the total vehicles circulating in Spain were more than 15 years old. But by 2024 they are 42%. According to Campos “the best-selling car model in Spain today is a Dacia, same as in Morocco, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria and Bosnia».
But he details that most of the Spanish Dacias are not even new. Because “Spanish cars no longer go to the scrapyard at fifteen years old, as was common two decades ago, but at twenty,” Campos highlighted.
For him, the biggest problem is that under the leftist policies since the time of Rodríguez Zapatero and that are aggravated by the current Pedro Sánchez regime, there was a “mandatory energy transition” that has brutally increased the costs of manufacturing and vehicle sales.
Campos indicates that, for example, a diesel Ford Focus cost approximately 14,000 euros in 2008, and says that today it is unthinkable that the best-selling car that year in Spain would be exchanged today for an electric Ford Focus costing more than 40,000 euros. and that only “a bureaucrat from Brussels” can afford that.
The issue is that in Spain about 13.5 million people are at risk of becoming poor in the last ten years, which makes it increasingly difficult for the middle class to acquire a new car.
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