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THE OVERALL number of new cars sold in Ireland in 2012 fell by over 11 per cent compared to the previous year, industry figures have claimed.
Data published by the Society of the Irish Motor Industry estimated that a total of 79,498 new cars were sold between January and December.
The previous year’s figures suggested that 89,878 cars had been sold.
2012′s figures reflect a drop of 57.3 per cent on sales of about 186,238 in 2007, the first year for which detailed SIMI figures are available.
The figures show that Volkswagen overtook Toyota as Ireland’s best-selling car brand, with 10,073 sales, making up 12.67 per cent of the market in spite of a 10 per cent drop in Volkswagen’s own individual sales figures.
Toyota’s sales, of 9,998, were down by 15.36 per cent on the previous year. Ford, in third place, saw an 18.32 per cent fall in its sales but still managed to keep third place with 8,592 cars sold.
The Ford Focus remains the most popular model of car, with 3,748 sold, ahead of the Volkswagen Golf at 3,360 and Nissan’s Qashqai at 3,298. Toyota’s Avensis (2,938) and Yaris (2,438) complete the top five.
The data regularly disagrees with official records published by the Central Statistics Office, whose most recent records reported 1,421 registrations of new cars in November compared to SIMI’s 883 figure.
The CSO’s data, for which December figures have not yet been compiled, estimated a 12.6 per cent fall in the sales of new cars between January and November 2012 when compared to the same equivalent period for 2011.
The figures also show that five out of every six new cars sold in Ireland in 2012 were sold in the first half of the year – with only 12,851 new vehicles sold between July and December, including only 316 in December.
The industry has previously argued that the introduction of a second registration plate would help to spread its business more evenly throughout the year.
Yesterday marked the first day of registrations for the new 131 registration plates, which will be issued only until the end of June, after which newly-registered vehicles will have the registration plate 132.
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Massive disappointment, the headline sucked me in, I thought she was on the aircraft when he partied in his undies.
Deliberately misleading headline alright.
The very best headline I’ve read on thejournal.
Legend get him on the late late
You have to be a presenter of another RTE show to get on that hot ticket.
Just give him a ticket to the show. He’d jump up on stage and make the show watchable for more than 2 whole mins.
It’s a fair point Jambon. If Tubs starting giving yippers and erb to everyone in the audience not only would the atmosphere be ELECTRIFYING, I for one would be queuing around donnybrook awaiting the night of our lives.
Was it Enda Kenny??
I bet he got a kick in the Caucasus for his trouble…
Probably a pat on the head. Sit ubu sit.
I think the Germans will have special methods of punishment for this humour filled individual
She was checking out Dacchau ; how appropriate rubber !
Luftpantsa
Maybe he was trying to get higher..
Pathetic joke
Why are so much of yous idiots that every article has something to do with enda kenny. Is your brain so lowly capacitated that you can’t actually bring a proper comical sentence to the forumbin relation to the incident.
Can you repeat that in English please.
Enda kenny
Enda Kenny, when asked recently on how he felt about Mayo’s All Ireland chances avoided the question and blamed the whole thing on the previous Fianna Fáil government.
What I want to know is where were the rest of the A-Team. I’d expect this type of behaviour from Murdock – but from Mr. T? What’s the world coming too!
The reason he didn’t try to fly it?
“I ain’t flying in no plane fool…”
Mr. T wouldn’t get on no plane, fool.
Ah… that explains the drugs – clearly Hannibal mixed up the meds in his milk.
Mr T is doing a show on BBC3, World’s Craziest Fools. It’s dumb but hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlIPx6MYE-U
Definitely wasn’t Irish. We don’t have money to spend on marijuana and ecstasy. Or underwear.
Speak for yourself fool.
Aw Gaz, give us a score. i promise I’ll buy leopardprint second skin speedos. And disco biscuits lol
“Enda, mein lickspittle, DAS IST VERBOTEN!!”
It wasn’t that mad Irish priest was it.
I really hope it turns out to be enda kenny:)
Oh yes I did!!
Probably because she had taken the shirt off of his back. :)
Headline had me thinking we had flying high bunga bunga party.
It was Mr Merkel.
It would have been great if he got the plane going.
There’s been serval high profile embarrassing news stories for Merkel over the last 2 weeks. Interesting given there is a major election coming up in September.
I don’t know the lady and don’t think she has been a great leader, certainly in European terms…. but ya gotta wonder why this is all happening now….
“Butch Merkel and the Wingdance Kid !”
We all partied
He must have been out of his vulkan mind….
Must have been Silvio thinking it was bunga bunga party night.
What are maijuana pills?
They’re like magic beans ; If the cops catch you with them you can’t emigrate !
German version of our dancing priest fella
Guess you could say
It’s all “up in the air” at this stage
Seriously, who the fu*k is Angela Merkel?
Anything for a few bob these days
Tear the underwear of Angela with me teeth so I would.
You might get a surprise with what you might find if you did.
One of the Bushes perhaps….
According to the bible John the only good bush is a burning bush ; Satan and his son dubya read the passage and thought “Middle East !”
Shit I hope it wasn’t Enda !
Angela’s wingman is going around in underpants ; t’would remind you of Top Gun .
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