New Reg New Yer. Our friend in Laois

To be fair, Dacia do generally fare very well in terms of residual values vs other brands, certainly compared to the flood the market Koreans.

18 months old is a terrible time to trade in if you are looking for a good deal.

I do believe that because for one Dacia never sold cars here before 2015 and two the Logan was never sold here. So what country was this in that it happened because it was not Ireland or the UK?

Yes you are right there. Forgot about that one. Never seen many of them. What was it MCV stood for again?

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Now now. You made a bit of a fool out of yourself with that one 🤣

Anyone got a link to that interview?

Fair point, changing the law because of one person wouldn’t be a sensible reaction. I suppose I was just frustrated at the lack of consideration of environmental impact of such conspicuous consumption.

The guy can afford it, the cars get resold, he's happy, the dealer is happy, the used car customer is happy.

There's far too much of this begrudgery and prostrating "everyone should live like peasants" stuff being shoved in to every aspect of society here so the Green types can tell themselves they're saving the bunnies while China, the US, Russia and other nations do whatever they like and will emit vastly more damaging emissions than Ireland ever will.

So keeping a car for maybe five years or maybe ten years is "living like a peasant" now? Awful lot of peasants around so.

My own car is 10 years old so no sale I'm afraid! It is a "big dirty (3 litre) diesel" though that'll be going nowhere soon - unless the right A8 came up!

But if this man wants to trade his car in every year then fair play to him. The buyer of his old one may well keep it until it dies, or they may have bought it instead of a brand new one themselves, and a functioning second hand market is essential if the goal is to reduce consumerism.

Either way, what this man or any of us do will have very little effect on the environment vs those bigger countries I mentioned who don't give a toss about how much we give up, and I see no reason to artificially reduce my standard of living (as if the costs and taxation generally aren't high enough as it is if you're a middle earner) just so Eamon Ryan and his supporters can get the warm and fuzzies.

How do they manage to do that?

It wasn’t his first ecosport though.

Ah stop. The significance of what he's doing or what his actions are meant to be symbolising is being way overplayed.

I'd say it's actually good for the environment. Someone will buy that Eco-Sport now and trade in some Euro 3 or 4 shitbox off of it, the car already existed so the second owner wont need to feel bad for the environmental impact of production, they in turn dont need to commission another new unit and it's taken another heavier polluting vehicle off the road.

That and it's imortant to keep the national fleet fresh anyway for road safety and stuff like that. I dont know what sort of spec that Eco-Sport has but if someone traded in a 2012 car againt it, there'd be a world of difference in terms of road safety.

And the trade in will live on through recycling.

Stuff has to be replaced too. Not buying a new car really really has a very tiny impact on a persons carbon footprint vs any other lifestyle choice they could make.

What are you doing on a motoring forum spouting environmental stuff. The guy buys a car. Someone else uses the old one. He spends a few quid. Dealer makes a few quid. Government takes a heap of tax off it. They are free to put that tax to good environmental use.

If anything this war shows the stupidity of penalizing ordinary hard working people with carbon taxes for heating their homes or driving to work when no other options are available, all the while Putin, is doing more environmental damage every minute than all the cars in Ireland put together would do in years and years.

All these environmental doom predictions totally and utterly ignore our ability to Engineer solutions. An example of this was the maps that were doing the rounds showing half of Dublin under water by a certain year. Did anyone consider that people might actually Engineer stuff to reduce such issues.

The poor man probably living a very frugal life and just keeps a new car and you coming on here basically calling him an environmental terrorist.

It's sickening and the poor man only following the advice of the green party to keep a low CO2 car.

Start at your own door and see how perfect an existence you lead.

He's preaching the "new" word of course.