Netherlands: Mitsubishi sales up 400% in Nov., now 5th most popular car brand

[m4v3r1ck]

Yeap it's because of the government policy on tax-free cars ended this year. Only pure electric cars with CO2 emission lower than 50g/hr which are on the road before 1 january will enjoy tax-free until 2019. So my tax-free mirage will have to pay tax from 1 january. Fortunate for me the car's so light I pay one of the lowest rank of road tax. Diesel cars weighing under 1150 KG will have to pay around 1100 euro tax per year, gasoline cars under 1150 KG pays 520 euro per year. Mirage pays 260 euro per year on road tax.
That to say diesel is priced at 1.35 euro per litre and gasoline is at 1.66 euro per litre.
So Mirage's still the best option here to drive the cheapest.

Comparing the car of the same weight 1150 kg diesel and gasoline, to reach the break even on tax, the diesel car will have to run 39.273 KM it's almost 40K more just to reach break even! not to mention after 20K cars will have to get their service and oil change, so it's 2x 145 euro more you have to count on the price to reach break even, which means the car will have to drive way much more just to reach break even point! So I really don't get why people buy diesel cars here in the NL.
No way they are driving 100K a year on their Mercedes, BMW or Audi diesel. For bus, trucks and mini busses I can understand.

[MetroMPG]

Hmmm. Didn't know about the tax situation making Space Star so affordable.

Is there a dedicated Dutch Mirage forum too?

[m4v3r1ck]

Nopes no dedicated dutch mirage forum as far as i know. there is however a mitsubishi owner club.

[spacester]

yes those sales are because of the outlander PHEV i geuss.

2014 will be a little different

maybe ranault sales are up because of the EV lineup they offer now? also tax credits!!

i geuss 2014 this wil also plummed

and a lot of people are buying the mirage/space star because they need a cheap car.
and before they where driving a mercedes benz diesel
the models before 1985 where free of road tax because its concidered a OLDtimer.
but that is now changed to 40 years cars and older.
so al those poeple that where only buying them for the money and not for the fact its oldtimer are now dumping those cars

i geuss sales for the mirage beginning 2014 will still be good and then come to a halt to.
or i need to say level off.

[Mikhail]

the Mitsubishi Outlander flies up to an out-of-this-world 12.7% market share thanks to almost 5,000 PHEV models that had to be delivered before 2014. This means the Outlander sells more units than any brand in the country this month, single-handedly pushing Mitsubishi to #1 with 13.3% share vs. 11.3% for Volkswagen and 11% for Volvo. In fact, the Outlander sells frankly more in one month that what Mitsubishi sold in the Netherlands over the entire year 2012 (3,583)…

Netherlands December 2013: Mitsubishi Outlander at 12.7% share

163 Mitsubishi Space Stars were sold.

[spacester]

""" In fact, the Outlander sells frankly more in one month that what Mitsubishi sold in the Netherlands over the entire year 2012 (3,583)"

haha yes and thats over now! they needed to do this for tax reasons....

[m4v3r1ck]

Hahaha just 163 space stars

[MetroMPG]

163 beats Canada (117)

[Mikhail]

The total of 2532 Mitsubishi Space Stars were sold in Netherlands in 2013.
Netherlands-full-year-2013

[MetroMPG]

Thanks, Mikhail.