Holy shit Veeky Forums I just realized why Europeans are so insufferable on all car forums: they can't afford to buy anything! A friend is moving to the Netherlands for work in a few months and I was helping him find cars. A piece of shit Golf TDI (diesel) costs the equivalent of $40,000 or more there! The Netherlands shares a fucking border with Germany. Do these European governments just tax the shit out of car purchases to encourage public transport use? I mean WTF, it's not like the cost of living and salaries scale with the car prices either. Europeans just don't buy these cars and just don't care I guess.
There isn't a "Dutch bicycle culture", these poor saps just can't afford cars. I mean the US has some stupid car regulations but nothing even close to this bad. I wonder if the yuropoors realize that in the US, you can buy a brand new 460hp Camaro with options for what a Golf diesel costs in the Netherlands...
That's holland for you. Taxes on everything. Meanwhile, I saw a car for sale the other day for £300. You can't even get a non-running car for that in America.
Elijah Davis
Dont worry, in 15 years they will be majority Islamic and will be blown away from history
Carson James
They have better trannies though, don't they?
Blake Howard
Tfw cheapest used car market in the world in the UK
good condition cars for 500£
Ryder Perez
Now insure it.
Jeremiah White
Another 500 for a year
Kayden Nelson
>There isn't a "Dutch bicycle culture", these poor saps just can't afford cars.
No, the reason they have a bicycle culture is because the country is tiny as dickshit, flatter then a 11 year old girl, most people work in the town they live in and public transport is amazing at connecting everything to anything. There's supermarket's and bakery's everywhere.
Also Bike-friendly infrastructure, cycling path's everywhere combined with bike-friendly public policy, planning and laws means biking is safe and fast, therefore people get on a bike when they are young, which means they are great bikers by the time they can drive a car if they want to which leads to less drivers since they already have their bike and drivers who are more considerate to bikers.
There's hardly a need for a car.
Caleb Gonzalez
I routinely buy running and driving cars from free to $500.
