Its due to the car scene in Ireland being F*****. here are 5 reasons
1) Tax for a 2 litre car is €660 at the moment and going to rise shortly. Its a Honda "Type R" that insurance companies wont touch over here. You are very lucky to get even a quote. Most places wont quote you, even if you go into a branch in person. If you do get a quote on average I would think it will be around the €1500. However I do think petrol is cheaper by a few cent here.
2) Every scumbag in the country wants to rob a Honda. Its like the holy grail of scum over here. I have had 1 Dc5 stolen on me, and my current one vandalised twice. If you look on the Honda Irish forum you will see minimum 1 thread a week (literately) from a member about their Honda being stolen.
3) Worst of all the police. First off they wont look or your stolen Honda (country is better without them). If they even see a "boy racer" Honda be it an ek9, ep3, DC5, eg6 sir, fn2, fd3. Once its a Honda and a fast one, they will stop you every time, and give you grief. I have had to open my bonnet many a time, once I was accused of having nos while the police man was pointing to the Fuse box!!! They are unable to tell the difference between a DC5 and an eg6. Its amazing how much the cars look the same isn't it??!! They are also unable to tell the difference between a standard 1.4 civic looking like it drove through halfords with a magnet and a tasteful type R with 40 k on the clock. I cant understand why they don't find the stolen Hondas when they are stopping them all. I think they do stop them, but are just too dumb to realise its a stolen car!
4) The roads are excrement!
5) Finally for people who have not heard about us needing a huge bail out from Europe. We have no money left! Who is willing to actually pay for a Dc5 and go through all of the above?? very few. Hence there is no market in Ireland any more so the price has dropped.
4 years ago a 01 was around 20K
Scum bags and politics, they are the same thing really.
Also we have our type plates.
For example if you see 01-D-3456 this means
01: car is a 2001 car
D : it was registered in Dublin: County the car was registered in eg ( Limerick would be LK, Calre = CE, Kilkenny =KK, Sligo = SO etc)
3456 : it is the 3456th 2001 car registered in Dublin
