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Oh no doubt about it.

Although I bought a 3 year old Golf last year and wanted to see if I could trade it in for a new one at what I paid for it or close to given the rise in value of second hand cars. Absolutely no chance. Mostly the rise in value of second hand cars is the selling price and not trade in value.

Yeah it goes without saying you're nearly better off selling privately as the trade in value offer is always crap.

The difference month on month is something else. Know someone who ordered a new car in November. Checked the prices last week and it had gone up 6k.

That said if you ring around the dealers in Cork there can be a difference in 5-6k what you'll pay 150 miles up the road. Goes to show how much the local operators are reefing people.
 
The Tiguan is an SUV, the Kia Sportage is also an SUV, anyone who disagrees can take it up with the manufacturers of both. The Sportage is available in a 4DW version btw.

You can split hairs all you want about what constitutes an SUV but the dealers are flogging these yokes as SUVs so the dopes buying them are being sucked into the marketing spin about them being the only option worth considering at this time, even though they are disastrous from an environmental point of view.

The bigger the vehicle the more bigger the carbon footprint it has and the more gas it needs to run it.

There is a lack of small all electric vehicles on the market for those who don't require an outsized monstrosity of a car imho.
 
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The Tiguan is an SUV, the Kia Sportage is also an SUV, anyone who disagrees can take it up with the manufacturers of both. The Sportage is available in a 4DW version btw. You can split hairs all you want about what constitutes an SUV but the dealers are flogging these yokes as SUVs so the dopes buying them are being sucked into the marketing spin about them being the only option worth considering at this time, even though they are disastrous from an environmental point of view. The bigger the vehicle the more bigger the carbon footprint it has and the more gas it needs to run it. There is a lack of small all electric vehicles on the market for those who don't require an outsized monstrosity of a car imho.

The total lack of incentives along with the lack of infrastructure has made the roll out of Electric Vehicles in this country glacial.

In Norway, the world leader for sales of EV you pay no vat, have free tolls and free parking with an EV.


Most people in Ireland cant afford to pay an extra 20-30k for an EV and if they could are put off by the lack of charging points throughout the country.


Our minister of transport had a great opportunity to put Ireland in the driving seat with EV take up but as per usual he is asleep at the wheel.
 
E10 & E20 fuels are an environmental dead-end too btw, unless you agree with switching land used for food production over to the growing of crops that are required for these fuel additives.
 
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