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Have you ever wondered how many vehicles (cars, motorcycles, trucks, trailers, etc.) are sent to the scrapyard (i.e. disposed of ecologically), how many are discarded and how many are exported? The Ministry of Transport has provided us with interesting figures that tell us which brands were forgone the most in all three cases mentioned in 2023.
Disappearance of a road vehicle
A vehicle is destroyed if the owner no longer wants to operate it and hands it over to the operator of a car scrap collection point or if the vehicle is destroyed (dismantling is not considered destruction). In common parlance, this means taking the vehicle to the scrap dealer.
Attention, the owner must request registration of the decommissioning of the vehicle no later than 10 days after the vehicle is handed over to the operator of the car wreck collection facility or after the destruction of the vehicle. Also a warning: an expired vehicle cannot be re-registered.
Brand of extinct vehiclesSkoda Auto818Volkswagen395Ford321Renault262Peugeot226Opel157Citroën137Fiat119BMW115not listed104Seat79Audi77Mercedes-Benz71Hyundai47Mazda40Irisbus37Kia34Volvo30Honda26Toyota25
Most people have turned away from Škoda cars, but they are the ones that drive the most in our country. The second place was taken by Volkswagen and the third place by Ford, which in turn corresponds approximately to the number of cars in use in our country. You will find interesting things in the first twenty, where there are 10 Tatra cars that were scrapped. In addition, seven Chryslers, four Rovers, five Saabs, one Jeep and one Lexus fell, and we dealt a devastating blow to the Chinese automobile industry by scrapping part of the Qingqi motorcycle.
Decommissioning a road vehicle
This is a situation in which the owner of the road vehicle does not want to use it on the road or a new insurance contract on motor third party liability insurance has not been concluded for the same road vehicle within 14 days after the expiry of the vehicle liability insurance. The vehicle will also be taken out of service in the event of theft.
Brand of decommissioned vehicles Skoda Auto13 249 not listed6 991Volkswagen6 980Ford4 709Mercedes-Benz4 029Renault3 643Peugeot3 339BMW3 303Fiat2 355Citroën2 281Opel2 100Audi1 986Honda1 695Iveco1 664MAN1 65 1DAF 1 448Volvo 1 424Suzuki1 333Tatra1 128Yamaha984
If we take the first three bars, then they are Škoda, a number of unclassified vehicles, Volkswagen and therefore the fourth Ford. Interestingly, among the top 20 we find, for example, 27 scrapped Wartburgs, 34 Caterpillars, 35 Babetts, 64 Knaus caravans or maybe 86 trailers of our own production.
Export of road vehicles
As a rule, it involves selling a vehicle abroad, be it new, used or even wrecked. When exported, the car receives an export license plate that is valid throughout the EU for up to 3 months and can be insured. This allows the buyer in question to take the car out of the Czech Republic in a convenient way. So which car brands were exported the most?
Brand of exported vehicles Škoda Auto13 108Volkswagen7 182Mercedes-Benz5 096unclassified3 752Ford3 643Renault3 261Hyundai2 807Kia2 443BMW2 409Peugeot2 390Toyora2 273Seat2 017Volvo1 930Audi1 854Dacia1 5 88Opel1 509MAN1 482Iveco1 353DAF1 308Citroën1 010
Škoda takes first place, Volkswagen takes second place and Mercedes-Benz takes third place. Also of interest are the exports of Schmitz Cargobull (640) or Schwarzmüller (465) trailers as well as exports of 280 Zetors, 125 JCBs, 112 Dodges, 98 Tatras, 90 New Holland agricultural vehicles, 27 Avia vehicles, 15 Pragoveks, 5 CZs and 3 Trabants.
So the winner is Škodovka, but they are driven the most, so it is logical that most of them are scrapped, broken down and thus exported abroad. So there are no big surprises as the top positions are more or less the same, so you have to look for interesting things, for example in directly competing brands where you can see that more Mercedes are retired/exported than Bavaria, Peugeot than Citroëns and maybe more Hyundais than Ki.
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