Via Damien Mulley, I happened on this, a bunch of stats about new car sales in Ireland for 2009. It’s been a fascinating drive through data.
For example, 131 people found it within themselves to buy Jaguar X-Types. Wow. And Ford sold 53 more vehicles than Toyota this year which is what you call just about making the turnaround. Last year, Toyota sold 2,200 more vehicles than Ford.
Last year’s total registrations for passenger cars was around 148,000. This year it was 55,000. If you need to know a second reason for a fall in the tax take, that’s where you’ll look. (the first of course is the stamp duty)
The biggest selling diesel vehicle is the Nissan Qashqai. I have no idea why. The biggest selling petrol vehicle is the Ford Fiesta. I know exactly why. Interestingly, the bigger selling diesel cars were mostly bigger cars; the biggest selling petrol cars were smaller cars bar the Toyota Avensis (third in both categories) and the Focus (second and fifth respectively).
Silver is the most popular colour. I understand that too. All the better to suffer rear-end collisions with.
Limerick City registered less than half the number of cars that Limerick County registered. Conversely, Waterford City registered more cars than Waterford County. Dublin which registers both the city and the county together registered more than 21000 vehicles; more than one third of the national total.
Interestingly, in 2008, Dublin registered 54668 passenger cars. In 2009, Ireland registered 55,163. There’s a cliff drop of figures.
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