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  • #32
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    bazz26 wrote: »
    Ok but to be honest in that case the Golf hasn't changed much then since the MkI either. They all look similar though each generation bar the MkVI has a different chassis which imo defines a new and different model.

    True enough, especially with the Mk II & III - again looked more like a facelift.


  • #33
    Tea 1000
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Tea 1000


    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    Point taken but both models still look very, very similar.
    They're quite different to be fair. And the whole point of this thread is the oldest car you can buy brand new. The current Focus is only since 04, and facelifted anyway in 09.
    The original Beetle or Mini are the strongest contenders, as is the Mk1 Golf, which you can buy in Mexico, although that may have ended a year or two ago.


  • #34
    bijapos
    Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭bijapos


    Tea 1000 wrote: »
    The original Beetle or Mini are the strongest contenders, as is the Mk1 Golf, which you can buy in Mexico, although that may have ended a year or two ago.

    They stopped building the Beetle in Mexico in 2003, the original Mini was last built in 2000.

    The Morris Oxford from 1956 is still built as the Hindustan Ambassador in India and has a distributor in the UK . I've seen one on an Irish plate somewhere.


    hindustan-ambassador-classic.jpg


  • #35
    VolvoMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,309 ✭✭✭VolvoMan


    Cars like the Volkswagen Citigolf and Hindustan Ambassador are exceptions. Sure the Peugeot 405 and 504 are still assembled and available for sale in many third-world countries.

    Regarding cars for sale in Western countries, I reckon you'd do well to find a car older than 2002/3 in the industry at present. The first one that springs to my mind is the SAAB 9-3.


  • #36
    G Luxel
    Registered Users Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭G Luxel


    The 504 is gone, the last version was a pickup in 2009. There was also the Dacia 1300 or Renault 12 and that was dropped a year or two ago. I recently spotted a 10 C Primera, a 10 C Avensis(last built in 2008) and someone is driving around in a 07 C Mercedes W-124, so that was in production for a really long time.......a recent post in Wiki states that Graham Walker Ltd is still producing Reliant Scimitars to order......and somewhere in Iran, a factory is producing Renault 5 mk1's......


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  • #37
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    G Lux don't forget the Iranian built Hillman Hunters :p


  • #38
    G Luxel
    Registered Users Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭G Luxel


    johnos1984 wrote: »
    G Lux don't forget the Iranian built Hillman Hunters :p

    they arent made there anymore, not since 2005...(except the Pickup) but...they are being built in the Sudan.... :)
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    Going back to the OP, the original 97 Octavia isnt listed on Skoda.ie website, so its a case of the last of them still being registered in 2010?

    Heres another vehicle thats for sale and 20 years older than the Octavia.
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  • #39
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,379 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    I would have thought they'd be all gone by now. THe new one has low vrt
    Saw a 10 reg old model Picasso recently


  • #40
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,096 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    The Merc CLC Class, it's still based on the original C Class Sportcoupe which was an Audi A3 rival and launched back in 2001.


  • #41
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,495 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I saw a 10 reg Citroen Xsara in Lahinch in July, but thats NOS rather than still on general sale obviously


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