Classic car drivers are being fleeced - more and more every year
The state coffers need money, the roads are suffering. Drivers are just the right supporters. Including classic car drivers. Although owners of old vehicles also benefit from advantageous regulations depending on the country, in some respects they are treated the same as any other passenger car and this can hurt - in the wallet.
The choice of fuel is restricted, or the best solution for the old car is made expensive. The Austrian highway vignette has (moderately) increased for this year, but the Swiss want CHF 100.00 per year instead of 40.00 for the use of their highways from 2015. This corresponds to a surcharge of a truly not modest 250%. This Swiss highway vignette was once introduced as a temporary (and certainly not definitive) solution.
The classic car collector is particularly hard hit, because if he wants to act according to the letter of the law, he will need a vignette for each car that may eventually put its tires on a highway, another one for the trailer and, of course, another one for the towing vehicle. In future, the cost per kilometer of freeway use could quickly amount to 20 or 50 centimes per kilometer.
So the classic car owner is faced with a dilemma if, for example, he wants to drive from Bern to St. Gallen for a meeting, which may be his only long-distance journey of the whole year. Should he take the country roads and drive through the middle of Zurich, which is not very car-friendly, or make the investment of 100 francs? Although it is possible to change the license plate number from one car to another and thus reduce traffic taxes, the same does not work with the vignette for legal reasons. Strange!
