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    #92
    ninty9er
    Registered Users Posts: 9,366 ✭✭✭ninty9er


    furtzy wrote: »
    Are they still charging for that? See 131 KE 16 out here.

    They only charge if you want a specific number. You can also take your chances and hope you get it.

    BMW campaigned for a change to the licensing system. I hope they choke on it now that a number of counties won't hit the 530/730 mark in the licensing period. People who want those types of plates would certainly make it a consideration in their choice of vehicle.


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    #93
    CoDy1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,637 ✭✭✭CoDy1


    58 131 Reg Audi A6's for the Irish EU presidency!
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    #94
    Leonard Hofstadter
    Registered Users Posts: 5,540 ✭✭✭Leonard Hofstadter


    What engines have they got? I hope they're V6s?


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    #95
    CoDy1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,637 ✭✭✭CoDy1


    captainspeed wrote: »
    What engines have they got? I hope they're V6s?

    They are TDI's, not sure of the engine size though.


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    #96
    gerrowadat
    Registered Users Posts: 3,363 ✭✭✭gerrowadat


    CoDy1 wrote: »
    They are TDI's, not sure of the engine size though.

    It looks like they've stopped doing the manual V6, so it's probably the 2.0 -- it'll probably be guards driving them so automatics would only confuse the poor fellas.


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    #97
    cjmcork
    Registered Users Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭cjmcork


    saw my first 2 yesterday in Macroom, Co. Cork - no flipping recession around here boyos! a focus and a fiat (a model that's so dull, I don't even know what it was)


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    #98
    Lutecia
    Registered Users Posts: 166 ✭✭Lutecia


    CoDy1 wrote: »
    58 131 Reg Audi A6's for the Irish EU presidency!

    Who is paying for these beauties ? Angela approved that ? :D


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    #99
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Lutecia wrote: »
    Who is paying for these beauties ? Angela approved that ? :D

    According to a few thousand idiots on facebook , its coming directly from paying for the care of sick and dying kids and to suggest otherwise makes you a fool or a government plant.


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    #100
    ninty9er
    Registered Users Posts: 9,366 ✭✭✭ninty9er


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    According to a few thousand idiots on facebook , its coming directly from paying for the care of sick and dying kids and to suggest otherwise makes you a fool or a government plant.

    Audi Ireland is sponsoring the presidency.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/1224/1224328152458.html

    http://www.eu2013.ie/ireland-and-the-presidency/about-the-presidency/our-sponsors/


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    #101
    vectra
    Registered Users Posts: 15,503 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    131-c-3
    White Insignia in Fermoy this morning


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    #102
    coolisin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,791 ✭✭✭coolisin


    gerrowadat wrote: »
    It looks like they've stopped doing the manual V6, so it's probably the 2.0 -- it'll probably be guards driving them so automatics would only confuse the poor fellas.

    Surely these would fall into Garda requirements of driving around ministers of min 3L.


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    #103
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    I wonder what happens to them when the 6 months is up ?


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    #104
    Cionád
    Registered Users Posts: 2,000 ✭✭✭Cionád


    opinion guy wrote: »
    I wonder what happens to them when the 6 months is up ?

    Sure they'll be worthless once the 132 registrations are out.

    :pac:


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    #105
    Inbox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 810 ✭✭✭Inbox


    My dad buys a car every couple of years I just asked him if he's getting one this year. His reply was "that crowd have made a bags of it, why would I buy a new car now, sure it'll be only new for 6 months" :pac:


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    #106
    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,559 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    Inbox wrote: »
    My dad buys a car every couple of years I just asked him if he's getting one this year. His reply was "that crowd have made a bags of it, why would I buy a new car now, sure it'll be only new for 6 months" :pac:

    I don't really understand that, but I wonder if a few have that feeling. Possibly the motor industry hasn't helped themselves at all demanding this change.

    I guess it's possible it makes people less likely to change to have a 'brand new' car, as opposed to making people just as likely to buy in July as in Jan. In theory there is less value in it for people like your dad.

    Interesting one, if that's they way it works out the motor industry will have no-one to blame but themselves and their amateur psychology...


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    #107
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,181 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    Last time we had the presidency the cars were mostly exported to the UK and other EU countries, some were left hand drive for this reason. My guess is a stroke of a pen exempted them from VRT unlike what the rest of us pay, brand new cars can't have been owned by foreign residents for 6 months and I can't find a "sure we are sponsoring the EU Presidency" exemption anywhere in the VRT wording.


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    #108
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Did they even sell 50 a6's last year?


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    #109
    PaulKK
    Registered Users Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭PaulKK


    EM87 wrote: »

    That's my Daddy's car!!! Did you see it in Kilkenny?

    Saw one the I other day,silver and number in the 80s?


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    #110
    RedorDead
    Registered Users Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭RedorDead


    CoDy1 wrote: »
    They are TDI's, not sure of the engine size though.

    All Black 2.0TDI 177 SE Multitronics. Identical spec. As Audi Ireland are paying for them it needs to find the car with the highest resale value in Ireland to minimise losses and the 2.0TDI Multi is that car. The losses on 80 x V6s would be eye watering!

    @ Guy Incognito - almost 1,000 A6's in 2012.


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    #111
    Please Kill Me
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭Please Kill Me


    Saw my first one this morning, BMW 520i, 131-D-105. Well for him! Recession me arse! :rolleyes: LOL


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    #112
    veetwin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,003 ✭✭✭veetwin


    Please Kill Me wrote: »
    Saw my first one this morning, BMW 520i, 131-D-105. Well for him! Recession me arse! :rolleyes: LOL

    520d surely?

    Only seen one 131 reg so far - on a 520d as it happens


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    #113
    Please Kill Me
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭Please Kill Me


    veetwin wrote: »
    520d surely?

    Only seen one 131 reg so far - on a 520d as it happens

    Possibly. Just remember seeing the 520, not sure what was after that. Could have been a "d".


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    #114
    Seweryn
    Registered Users Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭Seweryn


    veetwin wrote: »
    520d surely?

    Only seen one 131 reg so far - on a 520d as it happens
    I do not believe there would be a single 5-series sold that wasn't a 520d.


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    #115
    Bigcheeze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Bigcheeze


    Seweryn wrote: »
    I do not believe there would be a single 5-series sold that wasn't a 520d.

    Surprised more of them aren't de-badged. Is that an extra?


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    #116
    CrowdedHouse
    Registered Users Posts: 6,804 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    Bigcheeze wrote: »
    Surprised more of them aren't de-badged. Is that an extra?

    One of the few - if not the only - no cost option on a BMW :D

    Seven Worlds will Collide



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    #117
    satnavadays
    Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭satnavadays


    Saw 3 today, first was a Skoda Octavia, Mazda 3 and a VW Tiguan.


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    #118
    greendragon3
    Registered Users Posts: 895 ✭✭✭greendragon3


    looks like someone isn't too afraid of the " 13 " reg ,

    sorry bout the bad quality pic , damn camera phone !!!!!

    manorhamiltonruntractors131regcaretc014.jpg


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    #119
    promethius
    Registered Users Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭promethius


    saw a black 520d 131-so yesterday


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    #120
    Silvera
    Registered Users Posts: 4,030 ✭✭✭Silvera


    Spotted so far -
    131-MO-4 (Artic Truck in Galway)
    131-KE-70
    131-D-61 (Jetta)
    131-KE-4 (Citroen)


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    #121
    Lutecia
    Registered Users Posts: 166 ✭✭Lutecia


    Good news !
    Looks like the Dacia Sandero has arrived in Cork
    9990€ they say

    BAAnyO0CcAAf99L.jpg:large


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