Nissan Needs Investor Fast.

VW are in a bit of a bother too.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/04/volkswagen-has-a-year-maybe-two-to-turn-around-financial-chief-warns

There's various sources for this.

It's probably not a good idea having a Green politician who doesn't own a car sitting on the Supervisory Board of VW ? lol 😂

Chinese market is massive and without the absolutely massive Government incentives cars wouldn't be so cheap there and remember all the tax we pay here is ridiculous, the Government are adding probably 20k in tax or more to new cars and one reason I'll never again buy a new car, it's a huge waste of money.

Chinese cars sold here aren't cheap either.

What the market needs is cheap cars not big heavy SUV which I'd fully support a super tax on the car companies who produce them but if I were in Government I'd just ban their sale or charge 2K a year for Motor tax for anything over 1500 Kg and anything over 1.8 meters wide.

There's strong evidence for vast amounts of fields full of all sorts of unsold cars due to the Government incentives it was cheaper to build cars and dump them. Do we really want to support the Chinese ? I certainly don't more than I do.

Still expensive in reality like all cars due to the sheer level of tax, it's disgusting.

I was in New York in October and saw on a billboard adds for new cars advertising just 3 % tax lol

Petrol around 67 cent a Litre too and they think it's too high. This country is a joke. Just tax people to hell and squander it rather than spend it better and tax us less.

No way Tax payer money should be going on grants for cars, solar etc.

Carbon tax costing people 15c per litre of petrol, 54.18 cent Excise, 32.43 cent VAT, 1.90 Cent NORA, 1.2 Cent for Better Energy. (whatever better energy is )

Total tax on petrol is €1.40 and 93.34c on Diesel

The car owner in Ireland has always been an easy cash cow for the Irish Government and probably the sole reason public transport is absolute ****, where's the incentive to have a private company come in build an underground system in Dublin for example and charge money for it, it would be like the toll bridge and the Government would loose a lot of money they'd tell us has to be replaced probably with higher income taxes but if the Government didn't waste so much money in the first place we wouldn't need to be taxed so high. + with all the extra money from the corporations they still screw the working Man.

European countries that drive on the left

• Channel Islands (including Guernsey and Jersey)
• Cyprus
• Ireland
• Isle of Man
• Malta
• United Kingdom

Asian countries that drive on the left

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Brunei
• East Timor
• Hong Kong
• India
• Indonesia
• Japan
• Macau
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand

African countries that drive on the left

• Botswana
• Kenya
• Lesotho
• Malawi
• Mauritius
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Seychelles
• South Africa
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Oceanic countries and regions that drive on the left

• Australia and its territories including Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Norfolk Island and Tasmania
• Fiji
• Kiribati
• Nauru
• New Zealand and its territories including Cook Islands and Tokelau
• Niue
• Pitcairn Islands
• Papua New Guinea
• Samoa
• Solomon Islands
• Tonga
• Tuvalu

Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean islands that drive on the left

• Anguilla
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Bermuda
• British Virgin Islands
• Cayman Islands
• Dominica
• Falkland Islands
• Grenada
• Jamaica
• Montserrat
• Saint Helena,
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Turks and Caicos Islands
• United States Virgin Islands

South American countries that drive on the left

• Guyana
• Suriname

The Government were really clever putting the year on the reg then the 1 and 2 for January/July etc. Irish People like to keep up with the Joneses.

The SUV craze now too, can't be seen in a hatch lol

PCP is the " Real Never Never " people fooled by cheap monthly payments and forgetting about the inevitable big balloon payment or the forever Never Never to avoid it. The spending on cars in Ireland given the average industrial wage is absolutely insane especially considering the cost of new cars today.

Yeah PCP is not explained properly to many people and I managed to talk a friend of mine out of it last week funny enough, he didn't really understand all the numbers the dealer was throwing at him. So instead of buying new he might going buy a 2 or 3 year old instead but not new now. I told him don't be fooled with the low monthly payments , if a car costs 40 K it costs 40K + interest and no matter how the numbers are fiddled it's still 40k + interest and told him to go online and look up how much his bank would charge him for HP to own the car over 3 years or 5 years and see the actual money he's have to pay, over 5 years the interest would be a lot more money, then I explained that in order to get out of PCP you either have to hand the car back or pay a big balloon, on HP you own the car after the last payment.

What's the "kei " ?