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Am I seeing things??? A 2009 mk 1 Octavia!

  • 19-03-2014 5:21pm
    #1
    hoodie6029
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,238 ✭✭✭


    I saw a taxi today in Dublin which was definitely a 2009 reg but it was a first series Skoda Octavia. I thought the mk 2 started in 2004? I've seen the odd late reg model of a car but 5 years later?

    This is water. Inspiring speech by David Foster Wallace https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=GS5uDvegp6Er1EOG



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  • #2
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    They were made up until 2011

    1996–2010 (Czech Republic)
    2001–2011 (Ukraine)
    2002–2010 (India)
    2005–2011 (Kazakhstan)


  • #3
    JBokeh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 469 ✭✭JBokeh


    They were sold as the octavia tour for a good while after the gen 2 came out,fairly sure they had a few more of the toys you couldn't get here,and they were a competitive price too


  • #4
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    No one actually passed me on the motorway a mk1 09. It's mad my parents is mk2 and it's 05.


  • #5
    hoodie6029
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,238 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    And dealers here were still selling them?

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  • #6
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    hoodie6029 wrote: »
    And dealers here were still selling them?

    No fairly sure you can't still but them brand new. I'd say 09 was the very last year for them here and if there was 5 sold here in 09 I'd be surprised because at that stage the facelift mk2 was out so they were effectively 2 models behind seems mad when you think about it.


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  • #7
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    I guess so. Maybe it was cheaper to buy than the mk2. :)


  • #8
    hoodie6029
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,238 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    Thanks for the replies. I still find it bizarre that they'd sell a car that competes with the new offering. Maybe it was a taxi driver special, not available to Joe Normal Driver.

    This is water. Inspiring speech by David Foster Wallace https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=GS5uDvegp6Er1EOG



  • #9
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    hoodie6029 wrote: »
    Thanks for the replies. I still find it bizarre that they'd sell a car that competes with the new offering. Maybe it was a taxi driver special, not available to Joe Normal Driver.

    Well I think basically they were being sold off what was left. So they weren't advertised but if you walked in looking for one they'd sell you one no problem. I know of a few people who have 08 mk1s so doesn't seem like it was a taxi driver only thing. I wounder how much they were being sold for. They must of been priced a lot better than the mk2 in order to sell at all.


  • #10
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,364 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    The MkI Octavia Tour was a good few grand cheaper than the MkII. They were cheaper to produce also. Very appealing to someone like a taxi driver obviously. It was EU emission and NCAP regulations that killed it off in the end a few years ago.

    Plenty of other old cars still produced for certain markets though.


  • #11
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    The digits on number plate only show year of first registration - not year of manufacture.
    So it could have been car manufactured in 2004, but first registered in 2009.


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  • #12
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,523 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    I saw an Octavia tour 2010 a few years ago
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056054855


  • #13
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    There's a red 09 MKI driving around here. I know the man who bought it new in 09 he traded it in for a Kuga of all things he's sorry he ever traded it. The woman who drives it now got a car that was looked after like a baby and had barely 40,000 km on it.


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