Left-hand drive is worth money (Question of the week)
06/24/2019
Until the 1950s, many cars in this country still had the steering wheel on the right-hand side, and not just British ones. After that, left-hand drive became established on the mainland. Many car types were subsequently offered with both left-hand and right-hand steering wheels, the latter for the UK, Australian, South American and Japanese markets, among others. However, some cars were only sold with one steering wheel position, especially if they were built in small series.
Anyone buying a classic car, which is somewhat rarer, often has to choose between a left-hand drive and a right-hand drive. In modern road traffic, the left-hand drive has important advantages, e.g. when overtaking or entering a public parking garage. However, British vehicles in particular are still often offered in this country with right-hand drive, while left-hand drive alternatives are perhaps even rarer.
In a " question of the week" , we wanted to know which steering wheel position the Zwischengas readers would choose and would they be prepared to pay extra for the left-hand steering wheel.
The result is surprising in its severity. Only 16.4 percent stated that they would have no problem with the steering wheel on the right and would not pay a surcharge for it.
A total of almost 43 percent would pay more if they could buy their dream classic car with the steering wheel on the left-hand side. Of these, 28.1 percent would consider a 10 percent surcharge to be reasonable, 14.8 percent even 20 percent more.
35.3 percent would not buy a right-hand drive car at all. And 5.4 percent did not find a suitable answer, perhaps because they would pay even more than 20 percent extra or because they would prefer a steering wheel in the middle - yes, there was that.
The complete graphical evaluation looks like this:
The next question of the week has already been posed , this time we want to know which of six proposed classic cars readers would buy for a given amount of money with the aim of preserving value.
All previous evaluations of the questions of the weekcan be found in the dedicated topic channel.
