Cars that only fordners tend to drive

blindside88

I was driving around town yesterday and noticed a couple of cars that you rarely/never see an Irish person in. This isn't a dig at foreigners driving old cars or anything like that but it got me thinking. Cars like the Daewoo Lanos, Mitsubishi Spacestar and Nissan Maxima all seem to be driven exclusively by foreigners in this country. Irish people that drive cars of the same vintage seem to stick to the golf, corolla, mondeo, Passat etc.

Am I alone in seeing this or are there any other cars that don't seem to attract Irish people but do attract our European and African cousins here in Ireland

colm_mcm

Mazda Demio
Audi A2
Honda Stream
Old type Honda CR-V
Toyota Vitz

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Renault scenic
Diahatsu cuore
Audi a6 98-02

Fred Swanson

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Cee-Jay-Cee

Nissan Primeras
Fiat Stilo's
Renault Lagunas

weisses

Seat Terra

punisher5112

I knew a cara once she drove a car.

Dord

Toyota Yaris Verso

blindside88

punisher5112 wrote: »

I knew a cara once she drove a car.

Hahaha damn autocorrect, I didn't spot that until you said it

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Ford feckin Scorpios.

gammygils

Opel Agila
Suzuki Wagon R+
Hyundai Atoz

colm_mcm

Volvo V40 eatate

bazz26

Opel Zafira.

goochy

Early merc a class models just to have merc badge.irish people must know they are crap compared to focus etc

hannible the cannible

Around ennis and Shannon anyway , all you see driving opal people carriers are the Africans , they seem to have a gra for them

Das Reich

As a foreigner I have a Octavia 2008 1.4 but thats very common between irish. I see many non natives driving old bmw + than 2.0 especially if from eastern europe.

Isambard

How can you tell all these people are foreigners?

punisher5112

Isambard wrote: »

How can you tell all these people are foreigners?

How they drive ........

ScrubsfanChris

Isambard wrote: »

How can you tell all these people are foreigners?

punisher5112 wrote: »

How they drive ........

Also only accompanied by their kids

punisher5112

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Also only accompanied by their kids

Wrong the L is wrong way up. Ha

Voodoomelon

^^ Ha, was just about to say lime green Scenics.

selectamatic

Petrol Audi's

goochy

Just back to boards after a long ban so not going to get involved in this discussion !!

jacksie66

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Big Nasty

hannible the cannible wrote: »

Around ennis and Shannon anyway , all you see driving opal people carriers are the Africans , they seem to have a gra for them

Zafira's?

Also seem to like the ole Toyota Picnic.

BHP

Nissan Bluebirds

colm_mcm

I reckon it's down to what's popular in someone's home country. When I sold cars, the Brazilians went mad for opels. Sold a good few Toyotas to Africans, French people here are often very patriotic when it comes to cars, Then you have countries where automatic is popular, and when they come over here they might be on a provisional or used to smaller cars. you'd have a lot of Indian doctors looking for 1.0 Vitz and Yaris automatics. In Eastern Europe (again, generalising massively) BMW, Mercedes etc would be proper premium products with suitably high price tags relative to income. I know people from Romania and Poland who snapped up older prestige cars with high tax here because they can be bought much cheaper over here.

quadrifoglio verde

Daihatsu terios

Vicxas

96-97 nissan micras
If they're young lads it'll be an old audi a4 or 3 series BMWs that have seen better days.
Fiat bravas or bravos

Moonbeam

Dodge's

jacksie66

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166man

Seems like an odd idea for a thread to me to be honest. Plenty of generalisations being thrown around, not really sure its fair to be honest.

This is coming from an Irish chap btw

jacksie66

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thadg

hannible the cannible wrote: »

Around ennis and Shannon anyway , all you see driving opal people carriers are the Africans , they seem to have a gra for them

that's because they have them filled with ankle biters:rolleyes:

Greenman

Where I live "Belgium"


The Moroccans drive Citroens and Peugeots.


The Turks drive Mercs,Audis and VW Golfs.

ShadowHearth

166man wrote: »

Seems like an odd idea for a thread to me to be honest. Plenty of generalisations being thrown around, not really sure its fair to be honest.

This is coming from an Irish chap btw

I am foreigner ( well, on passport at least) and I find it kind of funny and amusing. Some of the stuff is actually spot on.

Lithuanians and Polish loved to bring from Lithuania 10 years ago:

Bmw e34 525i, 530i
Bmw e36 325I 328I, 330I
Audi a4 1.9tdi
Audi a6 2.5tdi avant
Opel calibra ( even had one myself here on ltu reg)
Audi coupe 2.8
VW passat, preferably estate.


Now Lithuanians love their audis, a4 or a6. BMW is still popular, but 520d mostly here, but in Lithuania it's mostly everything with 3.0L+.
Good call on scenic and zafira. Very very popular.

Lithuanians love their audi, BMW and vw even now. I kind of never had love to that trio. Always was a jap head. Kind of would love a nice beamer now, maybe my roots started kick in.

Big Nasty

Greenman wrote: »

Where I live "Belgium"


The Moroccans drive Citroens and Peugeots.


The Turks drive Mercs,Audis and VW Golfs.

Used to live in Belgium myself and older BMW's seemed to be popular with the more shady character.

Had a Jeep Grand Cherokee before and a Lithuanian dude I used work with called it a drug dealers car, said the Russians go mad for them.

It's funny how different cars are perceived in different countries.

CalamariFritti

Foreigner here, drive an older 2.5l E39, easily the biggest engine in our entire carpark at work. Irish people think 2.0 is enormous. Where I'm from 2.5 is maybe above average but nothing more than that. So I would go with the notion that people drive what they're used to from back home.

Anecdote: Was chatting to a couple of golf buddies and topic was all three of us need either a new car or had just gotten a new one. When I was asked what am I looking at I said still in the decision making process but I have a prudent option, a practical option and a tempting one. When asked which one was the tempting one I said Audi TT quattro. Next question was diesel or petrol so I replied not in those very words that a diesel in a TT would make me cry. So next thing he says to me ohhh thats a bit of a sporty car isn't it, you'd have to get a 1.4 or bigger wouldn't you? With a bit of a shock horror expression on his face. The weird thing is the only diesel tt is actually 2.0. I guess your man isn't a car buff.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

CalamariFritti wrote: »

Foreigner here, drive an older 2.5l E39, easily the biggest engine in our entire carpark at work. Irish people think 2.0 is enormous.

We don't. We just have a backwards arse taxing system towards anything larger than a one litre and anything that emits something other than a rainbow out its exhaust.

bear1

Half Irish half Italian, never gave two ****s.
Don't care about the size of the engine but do like to have min 150 bhp.
170 passat and got the wife a 177 auris.
Already planning my next wagon and I'm split between a 535d or a 3.0 a6.

Supergurrier

Nissan Almeria newer round shape

coolbeans

166man wrote: »

Seems like an odd idea for a thread to me to be honest. Plenty of generalisations being thrown around, not really sure its fair to be honest.

This is coming from an Irish chap btw

Don't really see the problem to be honest. Thought the "ankle biters" comment was a bit off colour but the rest is good stuff.

ShadowHearth

Big Nasty wrote: »

Used to live in Belgium myself and older BMW's seemed to be popular with the more shady character.

Had a Jeep Grand Cherokee before and a Lithuanian dude I used work with called it a drug dealers car, said the Russians go mad for them.

It's funny how different cars are perceived in different countries.

Actually spot with jeep grand cherokee. Another option would be 7 series. Specially e38. There is even Russian movie called "beemer" about Russian mafia.

bear1

Where my wife is from in poland all the young "hard men" drive tinted to the ****in tits 7ers from the late 90s early 00s.
Makes me laugh every time.

Supergurrier

bear1 wrote: »

Where my wife is from in poland all the young "hard men" drive tinted to the ****in tits 7ers from the late 90s early 00s.
Makes me laugh every time.

I'd rather an e38 to most of the ****e young lads drive here in Ireland

unkel

bear1 wrote: »

Half Irish half Italian, Already planning my next wagon and I'm split between a 535d or a 3.0 a6.

Jaysus, you're like the Italian ambassador here in Lucan and his Audis

What's wrong with Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Maserati or even Ferrari?

blindside88

166man wrote: »

Seems like an odd idea for a thread to me to be honest. Plenty of generalisations being thrown around, not really sure its fair to be honest.

This is coming from an Irish chap btw

It's just a funny observation, it's not designed to be offensive or xenophobic and most people here have seen that point. It's by no means the strangest thread running on boards at the minute

punisher5112

Was waiting myself for the auld race card to be thrown in.

polan

bear1 wrote: »

Where my wife is from in poland all the young "hard men" drive tinted to the ****in tits 7ers from the late 90s early 00s.
Makes me laugh every time.

I'll disagree, it's mostly E36s and pre-facelift E39s
Also, W202 Mercs and Vectras (b).

I'm from the lovely country myself and this is my vehicle history here:
- E46 320Ci (2.2)
- E38 750i (5.4)
- E39 520i (2.2)
- MK4 Golf (1.6) - still own it
- E34 518i (short episode, couldn't get it insured)
- E60 520i (2.2) - daily driver (I wanted an E38 728i, but no one will insure me on one anymore. Sad reality)

I've plans for a summer car back home - E36 M3 / E46 330Ci Vert / E39 540i / E39 M5 - depends what's there and how much cash I have

166man

blindside88 wrote: »

It's just a funny observation, it's not designed to be offensive or xenophobic and most people here have seen that point. It's by no means the strangest thread running on boards at the minute

Well that's up to you but I guess I read it differently.

John_Rambo

punisher5112 wrote: »

Was waiting myself for the auld race card to be thrown in.

Race card? Cars that only foreigners tend to drive - Formula 1 cars!!