Fresh loners
Several new models came onto the market last year, which we will probably not see on the road more often until 2024. Yet, in 2023, license plates have sometimes still just been hung. Who are these brand new loners?
January is always the month for drawing up the balance sheet for the past year. That is why the sales figures are flying around your head, one brand has sold more cars than the other. But there are also laggards. For example, there are cars that were barely sold in 2023. Now we can list them again, but for a change we will include a number of brand new models, a single copy of which has a Dutch license plate.
Exclusive debut in 2023
What about the Ferrari Purosangue, for example. According to our figures, one of these came with a Dutch license plate in its first year of sale, 2023. No, that was not the Purosangue in which colleagues Roy Kleijwegt and Cornelis Kit recently looked back on the year, because it had an Italian license plate.
We stay in the exclusive corner, because there is already an Aston Martin DB12 among us. The successor to the DB11 can already be seen somewhere in the country with a Dutch license plate on it. We suspect it’s not this green one, which grossed €1.5 million at the Cannes Film Festival.
You may have guessed it, it continues with expensive stuff. A Rolls-Royce Specter has also been delivered in the Netherlands. With its Dutch price tag of €396,275, the first fully electric Rolls-Royce is certainly not a bargain, but it is certainly the least expensive Rolls in years. The first one is now registered.
Finally, our eye falls on a single Maserati GranTurismo. Then it must almost be the new GranTurismo with petrol power. After all, the fully electric Folgore only received a Dutch price tag just before New Year’s Eve. If you see one at a charging station soon, it could easily be the second Dutch GranTurismo.
‘Older’ Loners
Of course, the cars mentioned are not the only ones of which only one copy has been newly registered with a Dutch license plate. There are some longer available models. What to think of the SsangYong Tivoli, which was last sold in 2020, for example, and which was suddenly sold new again last year. Or, for example, the Toyota Supra and the recently retired Rolls-Royce Wraith and Hyundai Ioniq. The Supra is not the only Toyota that only left the showroom once in 2023. The Hilux also kept it to one copy.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl