Thursday, February 6, 2025

Denmark is mentioned in the media – "They took his Ferrari"

The fact that Denmark has a law against reckless driving has reached all the way abroad. In Finland, it has been noted that a leased Ferrari has been confiscated.

It has been more than three years since the North Zealand Police took a Ferrari 488 Spider from a then 61-year-old man who had just picked up the car from a leasing company.

That's how long it took to resolve the case. But now the High Court has ruled that the car must be confiscated on behalf of the state and therefore sold at auction.

That will happen later this month. And at this point, the Ferrari, even though it has been sitting idle for more than three years, is already up for bids of one and a half million kroner.

This kind of thing – that the Ferrari was confiscated by the state – has not gone unnoticed. Not even in Finland, which is world-famous for basing speeding tickets on drivers' incomes.

Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat also notes that the minimum price of 1 million kroner, set by the state through the police, has already been exceeded. And with 14 days left in the auction, it is more than likely that the Ferrari will go for even more.

If the car is to stay in Denmark, the new owner will have to pay the state more money for the necessary service and the car's price at auction. The leased 488 is completely tax-free.

It is not known how big a bill the man in his 60s, who was convicted of the insanity in the car, is facing.

However, he is far from the only one who has had to hand over a wildly expensive car to the treasury since the law on reckless driving was introduced in March 2021. A director in his 40s lost his 12-cylinder Bentley in 2023.

And in October 2021, an Iraqi resident of Norway had to hand over his, also newly purchased, Lamborghini Huracan Spyder to the North Jutland Police.

– It was a bit sad for him. Now the car has been confiscated, and he was a bit tired of that, said duty officer at North Jutland Police Jess Falberg at the time.

The Iraqi then chose to appeal the police's decision. However, he ended up losing all the way through the legal system, even though he believed that Denmark had 'stolen the car'.

Did you know that Denmark is not the only country in Europe that takes away the cars, driving licenses, and freedom of reckless drivers?Read more about it here .

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