It depends on people’s reaction. I am pretty sure that there will be a few idiots buying them in car-crazy countries like Italy. I highly doubt they would sell in The Netherlands at all instead.

The new trend in many cities is to lower the speed limits, ban or limit cars in the centres, and promote bikes. Big cars will have an hard time with that plan.

Moreover, all old garages built more than 20/30 years ago are often too short for many modern cars, just imagine American monsters.

Finding a parking for a large car may be a nightmare in large cities too in general. Imagine also driving in historical centres through small roads with a big car.

They could certainly circulate in general, after all we have buses too, but I think they would be massively unpractical and we are not even considering costs, fuel, and limitations for the emissions.

Too bad this won’t happen because it would be amusing to see idiots struggle with the those huge cars on European roads

Amsterdam (and the whole Randstad) are full of expats and immigrants. Despite the dreams of the right wing, there is probably 1/10 - 1/5 of the population that doesn’t fit in the “pure Dutch” ethnicity.

Why do you have to kill animals to feed your carnivores? Can’t you just buy meat?

😂

This article misses an important point.

The Dutch government is imposing more and more restrictions on rents and house market in general with the goal of protecting low income people. That made it less convenient for landlords to rent cheap apartments and for developers to build cheap buildings with the result that the market for low income people sucks as usual and any plan to get out of that situation just halted.

1m houses? It’s about 10 years that they promise things like that.

This is missing the point.

The category of Italian private beach administrators is constantly under fire for their blatant violation of the laws, their outrageous fiscal evasion, and their well known abuse of illegal workers.

All that happens with the open support of the politics (especially right wing) that always managed to block any European intervention to open the market to competition and bring it back into legality.

The rising prices is just the last straw on an already long dead camel.

I guess I’m the only one who sees this as “here little Donald, now play with this and let me do my job”.