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How many new cars have been sold in Ireland so far this year?

A pickup in consumer sentiment and wide availability of finance is driving car sales.

NEW CAR SALES in Ireland have jumped by 24% in the first six months of the year, with almost 66,000 vehicles sold so far in 2014.

Industry website motorcheck.ie said that if the trend continues to the end of the year new car sales could clear 90,000 for the year.

The increase is largely being driven by positive consumer sentiment returning to the economy in the latter stages of last year, with many buyers deciding to go ahead with purchases that they had been putting off during the recession.

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Data from the CSO shows that the auto trade has been among the strongest performing sectors in the economy, with spending on cars a main driver of resurgent retail spending so far this year.
Motorcheck.ie managing director Michael Rochford said that the market is also being helped by trade-in and vendor finance offers currently being pushed by major manufacturers.

He said that around 26% of new vehicle purchases are completed with the aid of some sort of vendor finance.

The top selling brands in Ireland so far this year are Volkswagen, Toyota, Ford and Hyundai, with the VW Golf, Nissan Quashqai, Ford Focus and Toyota Corrolla the most popular models.

Businesses are also re-investing in commercial fleets, with a 43% increase in units shifted during the first half of 2014, with the Ford Transit, Volkswagen Caddy, Citroen Berlingo and Land Rover discovery leading the pack in sales.

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    Aug 2nd 2012, 8:03 AM

    Buying Bonds, bailouts etc. are just fancy language for paying large groups of people for living at a standard of living not justified by their daily work activity. ”Something for nothing” defies the basic law of barter.

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    Aug 2nd 2012, 8:50 AM

    Tom who is this large group of people your talking about? The reason Spain, Ireland, Italy needed bail outs was not because of your ordinary everyday working man on the street. More because of poor regulation greedy bankers/politicians/developers.

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    Aug 2nd 2012, 9:53 AM

    Sean At least developers create tangible results for society even though yes some of them would be on the very long list of those who lived beyond their ”produced” means

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    Aug 2nd 2012, 9:56 AM

    Tom,

    Monetization of debt is the duty of a central bank. There is nothing wrong of dubious about this. Printing money lowers the borrowing cost of Ireland, Spain etc.

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    Aug 2nd 2012, 10:09 AM

    I agree with you Tom developers create tangible results for society, but do not forget they also produce good intangible results through Human Captial.

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    Aug 2nd 2012, 12:32 PM

    Money can be two completely different things and this makes discussion difficult. Taking money as being a means of exchange printing volumes are decided on to make sure the ATM s etc have sufficient stock. Taking money as a store of value requires a very different approach. The assumption in the latter case is that if humans increase the amount of tangible goods etc. that this can be measured numerically and the numbers increased to reflect this.

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    Aug 2nd 2012, 9:56 AM

    Pointing fingers at people will not slove the issue, Euro bonds will.

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    Aug 2nd 2012, 2:22 PM

    Buying bonds is good for Ireland, Spain and Italy. Bond purchases can be easily sterilized to eliminate the inflationary effects.

    Patrick Honohan voted in favor of this too. Only one ECB board member from Germany opposed it.

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