When was the last time you saw a ......

Saab Ed

Cars that have just dissapered ...

Alfa Romeo 33s

Metros

Tipos

MK I Primeras

Renault 19s

Guys these, and many more, were everywhere only a very short time ago. Where did they all go ? Name more you haven't seen in ages.

Alanstrainor

My Dad had a MK1 Primera, I loved that car...metallic black...so cool!

CiniO

Saab Ed wrote: »

When was the last time you saw a ......

Alfa Romeo 33s

Metros

Tipos

MK I Primeras

Renault 19s

About 3 weeks ago, when I was for few days in Poland I've seen all of them
+ fiat uno, honda CRX, fiat 126, etc...

tuborg_man

mk1 mondeo's and mk1 vectra's numbers have disappeared, oh and mazda 323 (with pop up lights,)

newmug

You can thank the various different govt "scrappage" schemes:mad::mad::mad:

TestTransmission

Alanstrainor wrote: »

My Dad had a MK1 Primera, I loved that car...metallic black...so cool!

We had 2

Both bought new and drove into the ground,

renofan

I can add two from the 90's that we had but I can't tell you the last time I saw one. '94 Rover 214 and '97 Citroen ZX. Don't see many E36 3 series either. Mark 3 Fiestas is another one. And worrying for me is I have a pre-face lift mark one Laguna and my local motor factors said to me over a year ago now that I'm the only one getting stuff off them for that model....getting harder to find parts for them in breakers too


But go to France/Spain/Italy/Portugal and you'll see cars like that not only on the road but also garages selling them.....plenty of 80's/90's cars on the road. Ireland became too materialistic in the boom times and everything had to be the latest and newest be whatever it was.

bazz26

The way your average Irish motorists treats a car it is no wonder anything over 12 years old is a rare sight to still see on the roads. They have long been scrapped probably due to dog abuse and lack of maintence. Whereas make a trip to the UK and it will be a common enough sight to see older cars still in daily use.

bazz26

Incidently there was a 1986 Toyota Carina II in front of me a few weeks ago, it was in good nick too given that they generally rusted as soon as they hit the fresh air. Also a neighbour of mine had a 1990 Corolla as a second runabout up to recently before selling it on.

high horse

I saw a Nissan Bluebird about 2 weeks ago

Marlow

Saab Ed wrote: »

Alfa Romeo 33s

There are a few in Alfa Club Ireland that drive Alfa Romeo 33's. One of them regularly at the Cherrywood C&C. I've seen one of them a month ago here in Athlone.

Saab Ed wrote: »

Renault 19s

Mate of mine has a Renault 19 16v. Beast of a car. This is in Denmark though.

My neighbor in Roscommon, where I lived up until March this year, has his field littered with Renault 19's and at least 2 of'em that are driven regularly.

/M

dahamsta

I saw a Tipo in Cork about a month ago, myself and the wife were agog. Might as well have been a Ritmo.

EDIT: Come to think of it, I saw a 323F only this week, and I'd swear I saw another one recently.

Marcusm

Alanstrainor wrote: »

My Dad had a MK1 Primera, I loved that car...metallic black...so cool!

These came out about 91 or 92? Two "managers" I worked with gt them as their first company cars; one in black the other squad car blue as we called it. One other person in the office took great pleasure in constantly pointing out how phallic the hand break lever was, particularly with the pubes like bushy stuff at the bottom. I'm meeting the owner of the squad car one tomorrow and must remind her; she drives a Suzuki Swift now.

Marcusm

tuborg_man wrote: »

mk1 mondeo's and mk1 vectra's numbers have disappeared, oh and mazda 323 (with pop up lights,)

I saw a very clean red323f only today.

wonski

Marcusm wrote: »

I saw a very clean red323f only today.

I've seen 323f recently, too. They are cruising around from time to time. Most of the cars mentioned in here are gone because they are old. 1996-98 is about the oldest you can see now (there are some exceptions, but not to many).
Rust, mileage etc put them off the market. Not to mention that most of the newer cars are well equipped, more comfortable and still cheap.
Let's be honest who is going to keep Fiat Tipo (my father had one in the past), when you can buy lovely Bravo from 2007 for less than 5k?
Not to mention Puntos.
The same story with Mondeos, Mazdas, and Primeras...and all of the makes really, apart from proper classic cars.


http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3757089

FearDark

I see these cars everyday! Its a beautiful thing to see 20/30 year old cars as dailys here.

darragh o meara

Saab Ed wrote: »

Cars that have just dissapered ...

Alfa Romeo 33s ( not seen in years)

Metros ( pass one every day )

Tipos ( I know of two still on the road and see them regularly )

MK I Primeras ( a bit of a rarity now but I do see one parked up quiet a bit )

Renault 19s ( neighbour had one parked up for years so saw it a few times a day, thing was driving A1 but he had no use for it anymore so left it rot )

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working fool

Alfasud
Renault fuego
SIMCA
Renault 9

I'm sure I had a Nissan primera Sri and it was 1990

MuppetCheck

Saab Ed wrote: »

Cars that have just dissapered ...

Alfa Romeo 33s

Metros

Tipos

MK I Primeras

Renault 19s

Guys these, and many more, were everywhere only a very short time ago. Where did they all go ? Name more you haven't seen in ages.

I'm in Greece at the moment and have seen them all bar the Metro in the last few days.

The Tipo was even a dgt with the knightrider dash!

langdang

Saw a retro brown Uno recently.
Even the number of 90's celicas has dropped off bigtime.
Every time I leave Ireland I see a Mazda 626 estate, which are almost unheard of here.
Go down to Portugal, you'll see a Renault 4 a day, plenty of other older stuff. Italy - plenty of Fiat 126s (not so many 127s for some reason?)
You could also see a small family hanging off a big scooter heading off to the beach for the day. I guess there's different levels of recession!

Haven't been to spain much and mainly in big cities and catalunya, so the richer parts. TBH the cars I saw there were similar to what you'd see here. They have 4 banks on every street though, they must be worse than us for debt but hiding it.

12gauge dave

The japanese imports are getting rare now
90s hondas are really falling victim to rust now

Ive never owned a car over 1998 but ill have to soon i guess i just cant warm to the new cars 01-12 they have no character just souless technology on four wheels!

E30 bmws
88-92 corollas
Jettas
Saxos/106/205
Mark3 golfs and early-mid 90s astras are all getting scarce compared to 5years ago

langdang

Saw a Kadett recently actually (in spain though)
As the poster above says, even the Astra model that replaced them is rare now in Ireland.

12gauge dave

langdang wrote: »

Saw a Kadett recently actually (in spain though)
As the poster above says, even the Astra model that replaced them is rare now in Ireland.

I havent seen a kadett in years

wonski

12gauge dave wrote: »

The japanese imports are getting rare now
90s hondas are really falling victim to rust now

Ive never owned a car over 1998 but ill have to soon i guess i just cant warm to the new cars 01-12 they have no character just souless technology on four wheels!

E30 bmws
88-92 corollas
Jettas
Saxos/106/205
Mark3 golfs and early-mid 90s astras are all getting scarce compared to 5years ago

Have a look on donedeal - i bet there are some golfs of that era.
One or two old type Astras are around Naas/Kilcullen/Newbridge.

As for souless technology - most of us appreciate electric windows, power steering and the rest. We are getting lazy, and we like some comfort - nothing wrong with that really, just a sign of progress.

I did have a car with no powersteering, electric windows etc... our kids, not to mention grandkids, won't understand it - eps, abs, esp, asr - are standard for most vehicles now, and will be for all in next few years i think.

monkeysnapper

tuborg_man wrote: »

mk1 mondeo's and mk1 vectra's numbers have disappeared, oh and mazda 323 (with pop up lights,)

I had a Mazda pop up lights, I still say it was the best car I ever owned, I didn't see one in ages then there's one exactly the same as the one I had in red that parks right outside where I work, I'm always tempted to ask owner if he or she is selling it soon.

Back in 1999 there was a local man that had one rotting outside his house and I asked him if he was selling it, he said " I'm doing it up" I said I'll take it the way it is, he said " no, when its done you can buy it them" needless to say it was still there up to 2 years ago completly rotted away, it's probably sitting on a cloud looking down on us.

I saw on a uk forum that theres only 60 od left in the uk and their getting thinner all the time,

working fool

Ford Orion
Toyota tercel " they made a 4x4 version "

alias no.9

working fool wrote: »

Alfasud
Renault fuego
SIMCA
Renault 9

I'm sure I had a Nissan primera Sri and it was 1990

Thought the SRi only came along after the Series II facelift around 1993ish. Everything before that was badged LX and SLX with a very rare eGT in Ireland anyway, think the UK had L (lower spec than any paddy spec, UK minicab spec), LS, SLX and eGT.

I see a Renault 5 and up to recently a Fiat UNO in our underground car park, both circa 1993/4. Skoda Favorits had a brief burst of popularity but have disappeared completely and the Felicia is almost gon with them. Ford Escorts are all but disappeared save for Mk 1,11 and 111 variants on the classic scene.

langdang

working fool wrote: »

Toyota tercel " they made a 4x4 version "

Have you watched any breaking bad? The only tercel I've ever seen is in that, 4x4 too.

sean1141

renofan wrote: »

But go to France/Spain/Italy/Portugal and you'll see cars like that not only on the road but also garages selling them.....plenty of 80's/90's cars on the road. Ireland became too materialistic in the boom times and everything had to be the latest and newest be whatever it was.

more like most irish people dont look after their cars. although when loans and finance were easily available many did upgrade to a newer number plate!


spotted a 91 ford sierra sapphire the other day. looked clean too

Marlow

wonski wrote: »

As for souless technology - most of us appreciate electric windows, power steering and the rest. We are getting lazy, and we like some comfort - nothing wrong with that really, just a sign of progress.

Comfort did exist before '95 My '89 Audi has electric seats with memory, cruise control, climate control, etc. etc. And that model was build from the start of the 80's.

/M

wonski

Marlow wrote: »

Comfort did exist before '95 My '89 Audi has electric seats with memory, cruise control, climate control, etc. etc. And that model was build from the start of the 80's.

/M

It had some options, some where not available back then.
Typical cars didn't have these features available, not to mention them being standard.
Your 89 premium class Audi did not have some of options that most of the cars have now fitted as factory standard.
Back in 89 Audi itself was a comfort, so was BMW...