1989 price list

Blue850

Max_Damage

Haha My Micra K10 would have cost roughly £8,400!

VolvoMan

Mercs were bloody expensive back then, weren't they? You would have needed the guts of 27 grand to get into an entry level 190, which was not a whole lot less than what you would have payed for the likes of an Alfa 164 V6 24v.

The Express

A Couple of legends in there, the Peugeot 406 Mi16 for one.

Another thing of note, compared to today, these prices seem outrageous given the amount of money the average person was on back in '89. And this was before VRT.

Nice one Blue850.

Seweryn

VolvoMan wrote: »

Mercs were bloody expensive back then, weren't they?

Yeah, they were priced very high. Look at the entry level competition from Audi and BMW - both cars were about 9 grand less than the Baby-Benz! But these days Benz had no compromise in quality either, so you were getting what you paid for.

bijapos

Some names that are no longer on the Irish market,

Austin Rover
FSO
Isuzu
Lada
Lancia
Proton
Yugo


Some prices were crazy in relation to what people were actually earning. I remember emigrating to Germany in 1989 and realising that a basic Merc 190 cost the same there as a Ford Escort here, even though Mercedes took the piss in Germany with their extras pricing. I have the Merc dealers hanbook from 1991 somewhere listing every extra and how much it cost oon every single model, some of it is laughable.

Speaking of 1991.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmEvTa7Npk0

Max_Damage

^ Isuzu's are no longer sold here? News to me.

carchaeologist

bijapos wrote: »

Some names that are no longer on the Irish market,

Austin Rover
FSO
Isuzu
Lada
Lancia
Proton
Yugo

I doubt theres an FSO left in the land...brutal yokes.

Cant be many of the others either by now? Pity Lancia are not sold here,some of the new models look great.

Isuzu's are no longer sold here? News to me.

Isnt it just commercials they sell nowadays?

Max_Damage

http://www.flickr.com/photos/scrawb/sets/72157624866278872/

carchaeologist

Probably the last one left....:pSurely cubic now?

Max_Damage

carchaeologist wrote: »

Probably the last one left....:pSurely cubic now?

Indeed. I was talking to the owner of that yard a while back, he gets about €50 per car roughly as scrap metal. More than the car is worth anyway!

carchaeologist

The Fiat Tipo was the Irish car of the year in 1989.



Mostly all gone nowadays too.

unkel

Great thread - I love seeing old price lists

Goes to show how expensive the cheapest small cars were, compared to now. I mean well over 8 grand (punts) for the cheapest Fiesta or Polo. A university graduate would earn about that in a year back then!

greendragon3

ha ha the local TD here ( ted nealon) bought a brand new tipo in 1989 and got the reg 89 TN 1 on it , cool reg , wonder where the car ended up ?

Max_Damage

greendragon3 wrote: »

wonder where the car ended up ?

cleremy jarkson

£94000 for one of these in 1989? I wonder how many people in Ireland bought one!

carchaeologist

VolvoMan wrote: »

Mercs were bloody expensive back then, weren't they? You would have needed the guts of 27 grand to get into an entry level 190.

The 190E was a shade over 30K,plus you needed another 1200 quid for auto transmission. And that was still a lower spec car than the english got im assuming? As most of the Es iv seen here have wind up windows etc,and my one has electric everything,being an import.

bijapos

cleremy jarkson wrote: »

£94000 for one of these in 1989? I wonder how many people in Ireland bought one!

88 D 1000 was a 7 series, saw it in Dawson St in 1988 when we were let loose on the big schmoke on a school tour. Looked like a spaceship to us innocent Rossie kids. Could have been something to do with the Lord Mayor as it was the millenium year. Wonder what happened to it?

There was also an 87 or 88 in Castletroy in Limerick, it was replaced by a pale blue 5 series.:(

Anan1

carchaeologist wrote: »

The 190E was a shade over 30K,plus you needed another 1200 quid for auto transmission. And that was still a lower spec car than the english got im assuming? As most of the Es iv seen here have wind up windows etc,and my one has electric everything,being an import.

I had a German Mercedes price list for 1991; the 230E came as standard with a four speed manual gearbox!

VolvoMan

carchaeologist wrote: »

The 190E was a shade over 30K,plus you needed another 1200 quid for auto transmission. And that was still a lower spec car than the english got im assuming? As most of the Es iv seen here have wind up windows etc,and my one has electric everything,being an import.

I know they were a quality car and all, but you would've had to be mad to buy one back then at those prices.

bijapos wrote: »

88 D 1000 was a 7 series, saw it in Dawson St in 1988 when we were let loose on the big schmoke on a school tour. Looked like a spaceship to us innocent Rossie kids. Could have been something to do with the Lord Mayor as it was the millenium year. Wonder what happened to it?

When I checked mywheels last year it was down as last taxed in December 2000, so it's most likely a can of Coke today. Do a quick search on here and you will find a few things about it's history that I posted in the past.

carchaeologist

VolvoMan wrote: »

When I checked mywheels last year it was down as last taxed in December 2000, so it's most likely a can of Coke today. Do a quick search on here and you will find a few things about it's history that I posted in the past.

It may be in a shed somewhere,maybe the road tax was too much for the owner..

carchaeologist

Just going back through some stuff i had noted down, 88D1000 had 9 owners.
And to quote VolvoMan from a few years back..

It started life as Carmencita Hederman's car when she was Lord Mayor and was registered 88-D-1000 to celebrate Dublin's millennium. After its year long term expired it was proving too expensive for the state to lease, so a deal was struck with BK Motors in Drumcondra to supply a flagship Volvo from there on and the arrangement lasted for many more years. The first Volvo supplied was cleverly registered 89-D-1001.

The BMW was thereafter seen around the Blackrock area when it was sold to its second owner and was seen some time up until the early nineties. Its history from in between that period and 1999 is unknown, but it was allegedly bought out of the back of Carroll & Kinsella in that year for a grand by someone on bavarian-board.co.uk and the interior was apparently in a sorry state.

Towards the end of the car's life I think it was then sold on and seen in a garage in Sandycove and then subsequently some place on the Naas Road. The rest is unknown.....

Anyone who knows any more about this car I would be delighted to hear from them.

mondeo

Bloody hell cars were not cheap in 89'.... I wonder where people got the money to pay for them while being fleeced by Charles Haughey at the same time...

Ladas were a ripp off, I expected 2k or something for a new one back then...

Mad price differance between a Saab 900 turbo 8v & the 16v version...

cleremy jarkson

Speakin of Haughey, what did he drive back in the bad ol' days??
Top of the range merc I'm guessing..

bigroad

charlo had mercedes 230e as far as i remember ,garath fitz had a saab 9000

kasper

dont have a scanner but this is the cheapest and the dearest in each car marque for january 1981
alfasud 4 door 1350

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4950 alfetta gtv2000 2 door coupe---8950
audi 80 ls 4 door

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6425 audi 200 5 t a/t ----14660
bl mini city

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2999 princess 2000 hl

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6550
bmw 320manual 2-door--8280 735 auto inj

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20160
citroen dyane 6 weekend ---3235 cx 2400prestige inj saloon 13669
talbot sunbeam ls1.0 930cc---3860 solara sx 1.6

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7495
daimler sovereign 4.2

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21169 vanden plas 4.2

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27750
daihatsu charade

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3995
datsun cherry 3dr hb

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3959 280zx sports auto

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13260
fiat 1272dr saloon

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3115 132 2000 saloon ----6910
ford fiesta 957 l.c. de luxe ----3940 granada 2800ghia auto

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11964
jaguarxj6 3.4 ---17759 xj6 4.2

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19974 xjs----26118
lancia beta 1600 saloon

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6345 gamma coupe

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13490
land rover range rover

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15305
mazda 323 gl 50

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3985 323 estate

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4235
mgb sport

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6349 mgb gt

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6980
mercedes benz 200

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12625 280te

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21785
opel kadett 2 dr sal l1.2n

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4242 monza coupe 3.0 e--14585
peugeot 104 gl

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3995 604 inj auto

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12995
polski fiat sal 4 dr 1500cc---3425 estate car

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3725
renault 4 tl

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3345 r30 tx auto

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12866
saab 99 gl 4 dr manual

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8370 900 turbo 5 dr manual sr ps ---14225
rover 3500 manual

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12317 v8 s automatic

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14835
triumph dolomite 1300

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4602 spitfire h&s

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5594
TOYOTA STARLET

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3945 crown super saloon

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11250
vauxhall chevette e 2 dr sal

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3679 royale 3dr 2800 coupe ----13377
volvo 343 dl manual

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5350 265 gle estate

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14510
volkswagen derby ls

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4070 scirocco gti

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7480
ford and peugeot were expected a price increase in early 1981

the same year car tax for cars up to and including 2012cc are free of tax,but a yearly registeration fee of 10 pound



hope this is readable and sorry for hijacking your thread op , if you want any more prices for jan 1981 just ask

unkel

Thanks for typing all that in, kasper!

kasper wrote: »

dont have a scanner

Any chance a pic from a digital camera would be clear enough to show the detail?

kasper

tried it, me and computers dont get along , i just about have the basics on computers and when people try and explain it they might as well be talking chinise , if there was a carburettor and a distributor cap in the computer i would probably be able to navigate it better

carchaeologist

kasper wrote: »

tried it, me and computers dont get along , i just about have the basics on computers and when people try and explain it they might as well be talking chinise , if there was a carburettor and a distributor cap in the computer i would probably be able to navigate it better

Better buy one of these so...;):D

kasper

the last one should be first

kasper

more

unkel

Nice one!

£144 to tax a 3 litre car for a year seems a lot more reasonable than it is now! The cheapest car was about £3k - that's gone up about 3 fold. The motor tax has gone up about 10 fold!!!

kasper

and it was cheaper to drive a two litre car than an electric one ,. a two litre 1981 car next year will be forty eight euros to tax which is dearer than when the car was new

mondeo

How in the heavens did motor tax in this country get so expensive over the years....

hoodie6029

Anyone got one of those calculators that radio and TV shows use when they say 'and in today's money that is....'?

Like everyone else, I am a shocked at the prices of mercs! You could buy three VW polos for the price of a carburetored 190. That's with no extras, no radio. The only electric thing would be the left hand wing mirror. Even the drivers mirror was manual.

Dan Jaman

It's in UK Pounds, but provides a guide of sorts.
http://www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare/

skyhighflyer

Sorry to bump this, but as a relative youngtimer why were cars so expensive new back then? Was it higher VRT, a weak pound or lack of competition in the distribution sector that did it? I know we complain now, but to take an example:

Peugeot 205 Junior £8,295 = €10,534.65 (and probably twice that in real terms now) whereas you can have a new Panda for that today with €2k change Crazy money.

Great thread BTW

VolvoMan

skyhighflyer wrote: »

Peugeot 205 Junior £8,295 = €10,534.65 (and probably twice that in real terms now) whereas you can have a new Panda for that today with €2k change Crazy money.

You have to bear in mind that the Panda is an even smaller car than the 205 was and for 8k you would be getting a very basic model (Eco). To get into the 205's modern equivalent (the heap of crap that is the 207) I'd say you'd be parting with at least 15-16k.