So apparently it’s 2023, milestones this year

colm_mcm

Haven’t done one of these in a good while, as it’s now 2023, l might as well!

2003, Honda cog advert, an iconic ad. Sadly the Accord is long gone from Ireland.

https://youtu.be/_ve4M4UsJQo

2003, again something that’s not available anymore, the second generation Avensis. The car car-guys love to hate.

For something so average even within its own segment, this was actually groundbreaking at the time - It was the first car to get 5 stars on the stricter NCAP testing regime. it also had 9 airbags as standard, which for the time was a lot of airbags, and it had a distinct improvement in space and technology over the previous model. And it briefly (for around 3 years until the B6 Passat launched, and well before the likes of the Qashqai became the thing) was the car to have in Ireland.

1993, Ford Mondeo

Another game changer 10 years before this was the Mondeo, taking over from the much loved but antiquated Sierra, a new design from the ground up, a world car. Again - not with us any longer.

2013 - dem new number plates

An effort to spread car sales through the year, or a token move to placate the superstitious car buying masses for a year that can’t be reversed now? You decide!

Feel free to add your own

Birka

in 2003, we also got the bug eye (sorry Subaru) Nissan Micra and Mazda 2/Fiesta.

I'll spare you the photos of either car but I did think that the Micra wasn't a bad car at all. There - I've said it....

antodeco

Only 5 years to go for my tax to drop from €1600pa to €56!

AMKC

Lol that Mondeo add is hilarious.

Beauty with inner standards lol.

Turbolounge

Is it just me or does the clk in the background of the mayors Volvo only have one headlight on the passenger side?

alias no.9

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120071556#Comment_120071556

Speaking of Micras and years ending in 3, the K11 Micra arrived here in 1993

colm_mcm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120081270#Comment_120081270

I’d say they edited something/somebody out of the picture - well spotted!

Andrewf20

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120081270#Comment_120081270

Merc badge missing also.

ELM327

Only one more year till my Corona (1994 MH reg, white ex taxi of all the way round fame) is eligible for vintage tax

Probably the first car to go from Taxi tax to Vintage tax with no private inbetween!

Andrewf20

30 years since the 1st top gear magazine came out which I bought at the time as a 13 year old kid. October 1993. Scary its thats old.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120113656#Comment_120113656

Could be worth a bit now.

What cars featured in it?

Andrewf20

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120126439#Comment_120126439

I lost my copy years ago (my mother cleared out the old attic including a 1982 Autosport magazine signed by Colin Chapman) but I remember a 3 way battle between a Saab 9000 vs the rover 620 vs the new Mondeo. Beyond that, im stumped. Great front cover with a load of cars perched on the brooklands banking.

steinbock123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120127310#Comment_120127310

Reminds of of my late father giving my collection of Motor Sports , dating from the mid sixties through to the nineties, to some boy scout s who called looking for stuff for their jumble sale after I had got married and moved out. I never noticed for about six months until I called in looking for a specific copy to check something. To say I was not best pleased would be an understatement, as I should have taken them with me when I moved, although ‘er indoors may not have taken too kindly to a hefty collection of old magazines cluttering up the new marital home!

Still, I wish I had them today.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120127310#Comment_120127310

Awe that's a pity. Terrible to think they went in the rubbish bin.