Furthest you have seen an Irish plate from home?

Tipsy Mac

What's the furthest country you have spotted an Irish registered car from Ireland?

Gary ITR

Pula, Croatia

Saw an 04 Audi A4, that was nearly 2 years ago

Stephen

Somewhere in southern Germany a couple of years back.

paddydriver

The Nurburgring... and it wasn't a Glanza:p S4 estate I recall.

On my honeymoon I got stuck behind a German camper van driving up a mountain pass in Yosemite Park (California)... I set out early one morning at 06:00 to get some good early morning photo's and got stuck behind this thing with no where to pass.... bloody German's; if their not out putting their towels on the pool loungers, they are blocking mountain roads in their camper vans!

Zonda999

Saw a D reg Nissan Patrol in Cannes, French Riviera, a few years back.

Seen Irish reg plates in Irish bars a hell of a lot further than that though!:D

Berty

Mexico & Portugal. The one in Portugal was out of tax and insurance by a few years.

colm_mcm

Saw one in Romania last year.

Bluefoam

Saw a D reg in Cork

Zonda999

Berty wrote: »

Mexico & Portugal. The one in Portugal was out of tax and insurance by a few years.

Mexico, jeez, what was it?

Bluefoam wrote: »

Saw a D reg in Cork

:eek:
Madness, i once saw a LH registered car down here too!

L-M

Dundalk, with one exception it's the furthest I've been from home :P

high horse

My brother was out in Chad with the Irish army last year and came home with photos of the Irish reg'd people carriers out there in the desert dust.

Dunmoon

Saw a 99D plate on the wall of a restraunt in Quito Ecuador.

Big Nasty

colm_mcm wrote: »

Saw one in Romania last year.

Where in Romania Colm?

unkel

Original thread, Tipsy Mac. I don't think we've done this before!

jamiecall

Saw a 2002 Dublin reg Porsche 911 in las Vegas last year in the bellagio car park. Saw an Irish reg escort xr3i cabrio in Marbella this year.

McGrath5

Saw a 99 D Skoda Octavia in Strasbourg in France about 5 years ago. great idea for a thread btw.

rainbowtrout

Friend of mine used to live in Sydney and she said there was a D reg car that she used to see regularly around the city.

Myself, saw plenty of Irish reg cars in France and Spain as a kid, parents used to bring us camping and tour around both

McGrath5

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Friend of mine used to live in Sydney and she said there was a D reg car that she used to see regularly around the city.

Myself, saw plenty of Irish reg cars in France and Spain as a kid, parents used to bring us camping and tour around both

I'm open to correction on this but I think it was a few guys from Dublin who drove a BMW 316 to Australia, obviously getting ferries where necessary.

homer90

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Friend of mine used to live in Sydney and she said there was a D reg car that she used to see regularly around the city.

+1
maybe not the same car tho . But saw a D reg 3 series (IIRC) in sydney back in 2000 :-o

Bandara

Beat this one lads.....

Irish registered truck in Vientiane, Laos.

Lauder

Plenty of them in Ulan Baatar in Mongolia (including mine) over the month of August. Only 10,000 miles away.

rainbowtrout

homer90 wrote: »

+1
maybe not the same car tho . But saw a D reg 3 series (IIRC) in sydney back in 2000 :-o

No, you're right

http://www.dublintosydney.com/NewWebSite/menu.htm

it wasn't them though as far as I know, I think she mentioned something about a Volkswagen, I must ask her again.

Tipsy Mac

I think London is the furthest I have spotted one on my travels :rolleyes:

netwhizkid

I saw a Cork registered Volkswagen Golf parked in New York back in 2005, that was pretty cool!

Zube

My best is Metkovic in Croatia. An Army lorry!

Saab Ed

Onkle wrote: »

Pula, Croatia

Saw an 04 Audi A4, that was nearly 2 years ago

Thats mad. I saw an Irish reged A4 in Poric which is about 30 miles from Pula back in 2005. Cant remember which year though but it was an A4

Fozzie Bear

On hols with herself, we saw a 06 D Silver Touareg in Krakow Poland 2 years ago. It stood out a mile compared to some of the locals cars as it drove down the particular street we were on.

Drummerboy08

I've seen plenty of lorries on the France/Spain border. I also spotted a D reg 535d M Sport in Barcelona!

Sizzler

A D reg in Gran Cranaria :eek:

antodeco

Somewhere further than China!

Now I wasnt theere, but my friend was. He took his car over with him. Literally spent a few months on a world road trip. Ill see if I can dig up some photos of his car over there.

mullingar

Perfect Choice wrote: »

I'm open to correction on this but I think it was a few guys from Dublin who drove a BMW 316 to Australia, obviously getting ferries where necessary.

You are right!



All from

http://www.dublintosydney.com


I also recall that BMW bought the car off the lads for their museum. It must be in Ireland as MYwheels.ie has it NCT'd until Feb 2011!

1huge1

Seen a irish truck on a autobahn outside Dortmund in Germany a few years back. It was great to see I wasn't the only Irish around

KTRIC

I see quite a few Irish reg cars on the A9 in Germany.

Bluetonic

mullingar wrote: »

I also recall that BMW bought the car off the lads for their museum. It must be in Ireland as MYwheels.ie has it NCT'd until Feb 2011!

They got the car shipping from Sydney to Rotterdam then drove to Athens for the Olympics then drove back to Ireland.

craichoe

got passed by a lad in a C reg on the A57 to Cologne, had Mallow Painters written on the side of it or something, must of been a booze cruise.

Madame Razz

A mate has an old Irish regg'd Merc in Kusadasi, Turkey.

CJhaughey

I saw an Irish reg in Hammamet Tunisia, back in 99-00.

Beta Ray Bill

Tipsy Mac wrote: »

What's the furthest country you have spotted an Irish registered car from Ireland?

I saw an Lancer Evolution 2 in Thailand!

How the hell did it get over there?

Bazzy

Was on a quad driving down the road in zakynthos greece and got overtaken by a dublin registered hyundai coupe!!

I also found a large hill to drive up on the quad and when I got to the top I was standing admiring the view the place was real quite and out of the way and someone I knew arrived up the hill behind me

Small world and all that !

bladebrew

good thread:),
as far as i remember the only irish reg i have seen outside the country was a truck on its way into paris!,i think it collects fruit and veg and brings them back to dublin,the driver was beeping and flashing at us because we were waving an irish flag at him:)

Geoff845

Fozzie Bear wrote: »

On hols with herself, we saw a 06 D Silver Touareg in Krakow Poland 2 years ago. It stood out a mile compared to some of the locals cars as it drove down the particular street we were on.

I'm sure some finance company has written that one off so.....

Kimbot

Saw a Cavan Reg in Calahonda in the Costa Del Sol last week.

Fecker even took two parking spaces with his big jeep in the underground carpark.

BeardyGit

grahambo wrote: »

I saw an Lancer Evolution 2 in Thailand!

How the hell did it get over there?

Stolen and put in a container I'd imagine...

Bluefoam

Geoff845 wrote: »

I'm sure some finance company has written that one off so.....

Please explain?

pcardin

There's a hundreds of them in Marbella, Spain.

EPM

my uncle lives in boston and used to have an irish registered lhd drive e-class estate that he originally bought when he lived in germany. Couldn't bare to part with it so brought it to the states eventually. Still has it in the garage but doesn't use it anymore because its more than a bit past it

tuxy

Not an Irish car but an Irish plate in London Canada

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtmNuwgGgH8#t=1m29

fatboymsport

I have seen a 94 wh Carina E in Lanzarote.

merchant08

Saw a WH reg freelander is alaska 18mths ago

Hammertime wrote: »

Beat this one lads.....

Irish registered truck in Vientiane, Laos.

Sure most of the trucks in ireland that are traded in at the main dealers get exported to africa/asia, they dont even change the sign writing/reg on half of them.

Bitten & Hisses

Saw a navy Hyundai H100 van in Fuerteventura

alo1587

I think the lunar rover used for the moon landing was on an old ZV plate:D