Bank refused my loan for a car as I would be paying back €100 less per month. When I asked the manager to explain this he shrugged his shoulders and said circumstances change, at which point I said yes I earn more than three years ago and the look on his face was priceless when I told him I was moving my business to another bank.

There should be figures which exclude new cars registered in the names of garages. Car makers register cars in the final days of each month to make it appear that they still have a market share. The pre-reg cars are then sold off as ex-Demos etc. for a discounted price.Big fight for market share now between VW and Toyota so they probably registering loads of cars to bump up the “sales” figures.

Drop in sales… increase in cost of running… maybe Leo Varadkar might consider doing a photocall for his own department for a change!!

I’ve been trying to trade my car in for a few months now! Some of the prices dealers are looking for are incredible! One dealer offered me € 8500 for my car and same dealer was looking for €13995 for an identical car that had 10000km more than mine! And that was before the profit he was making on the brand new car he was trying to sell me! Talk about brass necks!

It’s just to costly for people tax,fuel gone up and the prices of new cars is too much to go from a-b and on top of that the banks won’t give people money

Cars here are of a lower spec because of the huge amount of vrt we have to pay. It is an illegal tax our government are fined by Europe every year but it’s still worth they’re while

”Fewer new cars licensed in April – CSO”

Ahh!!

Good enough for the greedy main dealers and Government.

You get screwed if you buy a new car in Ireland.

Lets hope change is on the way for the VRT our thieving government charge us on cars, under current European laws this tax is illegal. Lets hope for not much longer.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0126/cars-business.html

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Buy an imported 1 year old car from the uk higher spec lower price even after CRT

Yet again the story fails completely to mention the huge difference between this April and last April: the scrappage scheme. The scrappage scheme stimulated new car demand this time last year. No similar stimulus is to be found in the market at present. There is no reason why the Journal shouldn’t add some balance to this story, unless the writer felt that a bad news story is what thy wanted to write.

good news!