Used car prices break down: Diesel buyers get up to 50 percent off

03/22/2018

Used car prices break up Diesel buyers get up to 50 percent off

DPA

New and used cars at a car dealer in Saxony.

Diesel dawn at German used car dealers: buyers of used cars with Euro 5 diesel can currently get up to 50 percent off in the trade!

The Central Association of German Motor Trades (ZDK) according to a survey of 1817 automotive dealers across all brands with. For 11 percent of the surveyed dealers Euro-5 diesel are currently unsalable, one-third grant between 10 and 30 percent discount, another third even give up to 50 percent discount.

Even for cars with diesel engines, which meet the 2015 valid Euro 6 standard, the situation was “not rosy,” the association said. Only with the newest Euro-6d and Euro-6d-Temp things look different.

Background is the exhaust scandal, “As long as the diesel topic continues to rumble and bans “The situation in the retail sector will not improve, but will continue to worsen,” said ZDK Vice President Thomas Peckruhn, saying that car dealers urgently needed a retrofitting ordinance for older diesels, saying that manufacturers and importers were “morally obliged to comply to participate in the financing “.

The bet could be up for many diesel buyers

Who puts now on a cheap diesel car, risked driving bans. He could end up as a lucky bargain hunter. Because the question of whether driving bans for diesel cars really come and if so, to what extent, meanwhile, remains unexplained. The new Federal Transport Minister, Andreas Scheuer (CSU) makes diesel drivers hope anyway.

In the German cities, the pollutant limits caused mainly by diesel cars should be met by 2020, Scheuer said in the Bundestag. His motto is: “Do not panic and do not ban, but incentives and measures – and specifically and quickly.” Clean air should be an “export hit”.

Scheuer said a total of 28,000 city buses should be converted with a new subsidy policy for the conversion of diesel buses. This cost 107 million euros. In a next step, public vehicles such as garbage trucks or ambulances were also to be converted.

With software updates from the manufacturers of older diesels, nitrogen oxide emissions should be reduced by up to 30 percent by the end of 2018. “Air quality is quality of life,” said Scheuer. But quality of life is also freedom of movement and mobility. And mobility is the “fuel” of the economy.

The Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig had diesel driving bans for better air in cities generally declared admissiblebut designates these as last resort. In addition, the proportionality must be respected. The Federal Government wants to prevent nationwide driving bans for diesel in cities necessarily.

Last year, pollutant loads had fallen slightly, but the limit values were still not met in almost 70 cities. Diesel vehicles are a major cause of pollutant pollution.

nis / dpa-AFX

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