Irish Car Sales collapse ...... Jan 2013

Irish Car Sales have collapsed. They are down 32% in Jan 2013. Tactical pre registering by the Car Dealers have artificially inflated the figures to suggest only 19% drop. They have destroyed their businesses because of their greedy lobbying of Government TDs to make older cars (pre-2008) prohibitively expensive by penal annual car tax and forced customers to purchase new cars to try to escape the penal car tax. Now 392,000 owners of older cars are holding on to their cars and NOT paying the penal annual car tax on them. The main dealers greed has come back to bite them in the .....!