Brand new Ford Probe!

hoodie6029

This was on thejournal.ie yesterday, the SIMI figures show one Ford Probe registered this year. Anyone here been stashing one away for twenty years? Will this car even get a 161/162 plate?

Del2005

hoodie6029 wrote: »

This was on thejournal.ie yesterday, the SIMI figures show one Ford Probe registered this year. Anyone here been stashing one away for twenty years? Will this car even get a 161/162 plate?

Yes. It's gets a plate from the date of first registration not manufacture. I knew someone who ran a vehicle on trade plates, back when "For Reg" was a valid number plate, for years when they sold it it got a plate for the current year.

Mc Love

Such a misleading title, came in here expecting to see a new Probe

This came up in image search but could be mustang?!?

spyderski

Would that car not also show up if it was imported? Highly unlikely it was a brand new one. "For Reg" has been done away with since 1987 so doubt that's the answer ;-)

Del2005

spyderski wrote: »

Would that car not also show up if it was imported? Highly unlikely it was a brand new one. "For Reg" has been done away with since 1987 so doubt that's the answer ;-)

It could have been sitting in a dealership or yard unregistered, from reading the Journal article it sounds like an old car.

The "for reg" example was that a I knew of a car that drove for years on a trade plate and got a registration plate several years younger than it should have when it eventually had to be registered. As I said back when cars drove for months with For Reg stuck in the window.

Atlantic Dawn

I suppose with it never being registered anywhere in the world it has no previous history to be linked to so would have to get the plate of the year it was first presented to be registered. If it's the V6 the motor tax will likely be the €2560 a year CO2 bracket the car will fall under, pricey.

In the UK there's 280 of the 2 litre and 339 of the V6 left on the road
https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ford+probe&commit=Search

Isambard

spyderski wrote: »

Would that car not also show up if it was imported? Highly unlikely it was a brand new one. "For Reg" has been done away with since 1987 so doubt that's the answer ;-)

not the case, my Opel Kadett was FOR REG in 1989.

robtri

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I suppose with it never being registered anywhere in the world it has no previous history to be linked to so would have to get the plate of the year it was first presented to be registered. If it's the V6 the motor tax will likely be the €2560 a year CO2 bracket the car will fall under, pricey.

In the UK there's 280 of the 2 litre and 339 of the V6 left on the road
https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ford+probe&commit=Search

it hits Band E
€750 a year
http://www.beepbeep.ie/stats?sYear%5B%5D=2016&sYear%5B%5D=&sRegType=1&sMonth%5B%5D=&sMonth%5B%5D=&sMake%5B%5D=Ford&sRange%5B%5D=PROBE&x=45&y=11

and its maroon in colour

Atlantic Dawn

robtri wrote: »

it hits Band E
€750 a year
http://www.beepbeep.ie/stats?sYear%5B%5D=2016&sYear%5B%5D=&sRegType=1&sMonth%5B%5D=&sMonth%5B%5D=&sMake%5B%5D=Ford&sRange%5B%5D=PROBE&x=45&y=11

and its maroon in colour

Minging maroon, my top worst colour after pink and yellow on a car, how someone would order a car in this colour and save it from registering it is beyond me.

galwaytt

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Minging maroon, my top worst colour after pink and yellow on a car, how someone would order a car in this colour and save it from registering it is beyond me.

...better than manky silver or primer grey...