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We took a trip over to Dublin last week to have an eyeball at the Irish auction scene. Recent conversations with Irish car dealers has revealed a tale of woe, with some of the oldest established dealerships in the country going under in the recession. And yet despite this gloom there is still a steady stream of cars being exported over from England. The trade is basically very healthy if you have the right, Low emmissions under 3 year old stock.If however you are stuck with mileagy petrol cars with dodgy emmissions then the running costs are crippling, as a result there is a flow of people diving out of these cars.On some models we cant help but think they are cheap enough to export into England.
On Auction night it was a bit unclear what cars where formally sold and what ones went provisional, we tend to only publish sold prices on the site but after blowing the budget on Ryanair flights we think we have to publish what we presumed sold. Some of the ex finance cars were a bit on the rough side however U.K auctions could learn from Merlins car assessments which thoroughly listed all known imperfections and didnt just give the car an overall value grade which varied from auction centre to auction centre.
Anyway through the block:(all prices are euros and all mileage is kilometres) 2007 Peugeot 307 1.4D 16v 5dr Blue met 49K £4100. 2006 Subar impreza(wrx lookalike) 1.6 Ts Silver 71K £2300. 2007 VW Passat 1.9TDi Comfortline Blue 127K . 2005 BMW520D Sport Auto Black(leather)93K £8000. 2007 Kia Sorrento 2.5GLS Black 120K £3800. 2006 Honda Civic 1.8i Panorama roof Black 82K £4400. 2006 BMW 330iSE Auto Silver 109K £5800 2008 Audi A6 2.0Tfsi Tiptronic (170) Silver 58K £11,200. 2007 Range Rover Sport TDV6 Se Auto 130K £23500. 2008 BMW 320i MSport Coupe White(leather) 180K £10,200. 2001 Porsche Carrera Cabrio Blue 45K £12500. 2005 Bentley Continental Silver 52K £38,000. 2007 Audi A4 1.6 S-Line Silver 74K £10,100. 2007 Lexus RX400 Hybrid Silver 58K £12,100. 2007 BMW X5 3.0D SE Auto Grey 80K £26,500. 2008 BMW X5 3.0D SE Auto Black 85K £33,700. 2007 Audi S5 4.2FSI Black 89K. There was also a Japanese import sale for very tidy small cars ie yaris,Starlets etc and they seemed to sell well. The next big sale is Saturday the 16th and we will try to report back from that.
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