That if prohibition in 2040, that if not prohibition in 2040 and meanwhile, the cars that circulate on our roads today are a little older, a little more insecure and also a little more polluting than those that were yesterday .

In 2007, at the gates of the crisis, the average age of Spanish cars was in the eight years according to the association of builders Anfac. Today, it goes beyond 12, slightly above Italy and between three and four years longer than they have, on average, passenger cars in the United Kingdom, France or Germany.

That means that the majority, especially in the case of diesel, will only be entitled to the eco-label B, the last of the four granted by the DGT, but the first to which traffic restrictions apply during high episodes. pollution. In fact, all cars with that age correspond to the Euro 4 and Euro 5 standards, which means that diesel oil emits two to three times more NOx than those that meet the current Euro 6 .

Anfac has developed a study that demonstrates the keys to this deterioration of the car park. It collects data from the first eight months of 2007 and 2019, with market volumes - between new and used cars - comparable in the environment of 2.4 million units. Although different in its composition.

Thus, if during that time the second-hand market has grown by 8.8% (up to 1.4 million), registrations - very affected by diesel attacks - have declined by 21% (883,649 units) .

In addition, not only has the sale of used goods gone up, but it has done so in the worst possible way: in older models. For example, operations with vehicles between 10 and 15 years have grown by 58%, to 390,000 cars; those between 15 and 20 years have multiplied by 2.6 and those of models that exceed twenty years have done so by almost five. Between January and August 2019, 133,000 vehicles with that age changed ownership.

Consequence: six out of every 10 used cars that are sold right now in Spain are 10 years old, more than double the 2007 figure.

The previous data show, says Anfac, that people still want to buy cars, even if they make them more rational and do not use them, for example, in the city. What happens is that, given the uncertainty of what will happen to the model that it acquires now, that retained demand is being satisfied in the occasion market; and that way, with very cheap cars. Because nobody is hidden that these operations are carried out almost exclusively by families, whose demand in the new market has been falling for a year and 14.3% in 2019 .

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