The Balearics is getting a taste for luxury vehicles with more than 100 Porsche cars being sold here last year, a rise of 23 percent on the previous period. The list goes on with three Ferraris, two Aston Martins and even a Lotus and a Rolls Royce. Not bad for a group of islands with a population of one million.
Porsche, Aston Martin? That will do nicely, say Balearics
Luxury car sales hit the fast lane
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Tawny TweacleTo clarify, the term "general Mallorquin population" is misleading. In the far east a popular refrain was " you never see a poor chinese". Well in Mallorca you never see a poor Mallorquin. There can be few who do not have an extended family with land locked up around the island. A finca here, a parcela there. The poor are the incomers, ' foresters' from the mainland and increasingly europeans from the east who thought they would find gold paved streets.
@Pimple-Chumley You are incredibly naive (polite term for stupid) if you think for one minute that the general Mallorquin population benefit from this! Its quite sickening to read when there is such poverty and suffering for many Mallorquin families due to farangs benefitting from living here and earning wages at foreign levels. I dont have the answers, but something needs to be done to level the playing field.
Charles Dalrymple-ChumleyBollocks.
Just TogetpublishedDon't knock it. For each luxury car sold there's an active business, jobs, parts, suppliers, taxes and servicing. All delivering cash to the island and to Mallorcans. No luxury cars sold = no cash for the island.
Well that just about says it all about the fact that the island is an expensive place to live.