No Aston Martins sold in Ireland since 2010

ArphaRima

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/aston-martins-were-once-status-symbols-but-none-have-been-here-sold-since-2010-29331046.html

"For the very wealthiest builders and developers in their 40s, Aston Martin became the "go-to" luxury marque"
"A quick glance at Carzone.ie tells the story of Celtic Tiger hubris and foolishness. There's 19 Astons for sale second-hand.".

What an absolute load of b*lls. For a start there is no dealer in the Republic of Ireland so I'm not sure how one would go about buying one here in the first place.
I am an owner and I know 2 other owners. They also bought in the UK. I would love to know what research this journalist did, or whether it was all anecdotal.
Best purchase I ever made, so I feel insulted to have it described as "Celtic Tiger hubris and foolishness".

Profiler

fluffer wrote: »

I would love to know what research this journalist did, or whether it was all anecdotal.

It's the Irish independent, so I would be fairly confident there was no research what so ever done.

Terrontress

fluffer wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/aston-martins-were-once-status-symbols-but-none-have-been-here-sold-since-2010-29331046.html

"For the very wealthiest builders and developers in their 40s, Aston Martin became the "go-to" luxury marque"
"A quick glance at Carzone.ie tells the story of Celtic Tiger hubris and foolishness. There's 19 Astons for sale second-hand.".

What an absolute load of b*lls. For a start there is no dealer in the Republic of Ireland so I'm not sure how one would go about buying one here in the first place.
I am an owner and I know 2 other owners. They also bought in the UK. I would love to know what research this journalist did, or whether it was all anecdotal.
Best purchase I ever made, so I feel insulted to have it described as "Celtic Tiger hubris and foolishness".

Is Charles Hurst not the official"island of Ireland" dealer?

Same with a few other top marques too.

My old boss owned a few, has a DB9 now. He told us that there was a waiting list in Ireland for them and the list was slow. He said that when he was first in line he was offered a substantial amount of money to swap places with the guy who was second on the list!

Not sure how true it is - but I always believed him :P

I wouldn't bother feeling insulted with anything printed in the independent tbh. It's nothing more than a red top rag in disguise. Enjoy your car and feck the begrudgers

dr.fuzzenstein

OP, what exactly do you do and where do I sign up?:cool:

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Giz a shot of your motor m8?

Voodoomelon

It's a V8 Vantage I believe.

goochy

Even if Plp could afford new Astons they would be mad to buy one Aston are suffering from lack of money to produce new models so are just updating existing models all models are based on db9 which is now old wouldnt mind a s hand Aston .kellys car centre have a nice low mileage 2002 db7 vantage volante for under €35 k which would be a grt buy

Gatling

I remember one going for under 80,000 at the car dealers on the corner of rathgar a few months back down from 150+