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NL used cars

The reasons why Dutch used cars are good value

Dutch used cars are very good value. In addition to the attractive price levels, you as a buyer of a used car from the Netherlands can be certain you are getting a high-quality vehicle for the following reasons:

Good road surfaces and a flat landscape

There are no hilly or mountainous areas in the Netherlands. The well-maintained flat road surfaces are, relatively speaking, very car-friendly.

Low speed limits

Thanks to the low speed limits in the Netherlands, there is less of a burden on the car components that are liable to wear out. The maximum speed limit on Dutch motorways is 120 km/h.

Good standard of maintenance

Repair garages in the Netherlands must meet stringent requirements and are regularly inspected to make sure they carry out maintenance and repairs in the correct manner. The APK is an inspection, carried out every two years, of important points on the car, which have to be repaired if necessary. In addition, many cars have their own maintenance log in which a maintenance record is kept, thereby providing a clear account of its maintenance history.

Correct mileage

Thanks to the National Autopas (Car Pass, NAP), car mileages are administered in a national database in the Netherlands every time a car undergoes a maintenance check or is repaired. This makes it easy to verify, whenever a car is sold, whether or not the odometer has been wound back. The effect of the NAP is that for more than 95% of cars in the Netherlands, the mileage shown is correct.

Good-value range

Because of recent changes to Dutch law, buyers of Dutch used cars who are from EEA countries are in a much more advantageous position than before. The tax rebate scheme for nearly-new used cars in particular is making the range of Dutch cars more and more popular among foreign buyers.

Find out more about exporting vehicles from the Netherlands and the tax rebate export scheme