It is difficult to celebrate the holiday when the rain pours against the windows and the outdoor sport has to pause. Four sports comrades sit at the dining table in the rented holiday home, Dirk comes an idea: You could play quartet, he still has a sheet in the Bulli. Speaks it and a little later with “Opel Contra Ford”. 32 tapped cards, each adorns a car that recalls their own youth. No dream cars, admittedly, but signs of the growing prosperity in the 1970s and 1980s. The round can quickly agree, the rules of the game are the same as in the school yard. More is better, the smaller number only wins when it comes to weight. If you have the Opel diplomat on hand, you make almost every stab, 205 km/h, 230 hp, 5354 cubic, only when the weight is accessed, you have to fit with 1690 kilos. Of course, such a car was as little affordable for everyone at the time as a Ford Capri with a six -cylinder. Specialists or civil servants without a management function drove Kadett or Ascona, or, if it should be a Ford, escort or taunus. Half a century later, the model program of both manufacturers is tightly tightened as the number of employees in Cologne and Rüsselsheim, are other works or just before. Management errors, especially exaggerated economy at the customer’s expense, may be the main cause. But not dismissing it is the fact that the prices for new cars have been rising faster than income for some time. The cheapest car for the people from Wolfsburg, for example, is currently a polo for 19,835 euros, you then have to be satisfied with 80 hp and subtle gray as the only available color. If you upgrade the same model as a GTI with maximum equipment, it costs 47,042 euros. Incidentally, the V8 diplomat at that time would cost 44,363 euros. We owe this knowledge to the tremendous honest configurator from Volkswagen. Because it not only shows the expected operating costs for an annual mileage of 15,000 kilometers, but also the additional burden of the CO2 trade, which is mandatory from 2027. If the price increases to 115 euros per ton, a medium scenario, this meant additional costs of 2122 euros for a ten-year hold of the 80-hp-polo. A CO2 price of 190 euros per ton of hits even with 3506 euros. We suspect how this works: Our grandchildren play in the schoolyard “Byd contra Geely”. More on the subject
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