Irish car

C_Breeze

LOL, since when are Mazda's "irish made cars" ??

http://www.carzone.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=337152

damn , some people are really stupid. I hate reading that line in alsmost every car ad.
Are these people chronically stupid or whats the story??...I always wondered do they actually think that these cars were actually made in a factory in Wexford or something??

wouldnt "non-import" or something like that make more sense than "irish made car" ......also takes up less words in adds!

Wolverine_1999

Heh, when I was searching for an MX-3 I actually saw that as well there !

bazz26

Also anyone who is trying to sell their car and takes a picture of it in the dark is either not the brightest tool in the shed or is hiding something.

The body kit looks as if it was only put on yeserday, it looks like it isn't even sprayed.

pontovic

strange question, but how come cars were never made here ? all i know of are the fords that were made in cork until 1984 and the il fated delorean in belfast

el tel

pontovic wrote:

strange question, but how come cars were never made here ? all i know of are the fords that were made in cork until 1984 and the il fated delorean in belfast

The only other cars manufactured in Ireland I can think of are the Clan Crusader, Clan Clover and the Shamrock job. All of which are junk AFAIK.

(The Brittains Group also assembled British Leyland cars on the Naas Road - more junk)

franksm

Could be snobbery: maybe they're wanting to differentiate between the "domestic" car and an import.

ds20prefecture

el tel wrote:

The only other cars manufactured in Ireland I can think of are the Clan Crusader, Clan Clover and the Shamrock job. All of which are junk AFAIK.

The Irish Government owned the sole world-wide rights to manufacture Heinkel "Cabin Cruisers" in the late 50s. They made over 6000 of them in Dundalk. These are highly sought-after because of their relative rarity. The rights & plant were sold to a private company in Slough and manufactured for a number of years under the brand "Trojan". More here http://www.heinkel-trojan-club.co.uk/cabin_cruisers.htm



In the 20s and 30s there were a few manufacturers in Belfast, but none in the free state that I know of.

Mr Magnolia

ds20prefecture wrote:

The Irish Government owned the sole world-wide rights to manufacture Heinkel "Cabin Cruisers" in the late 50s. They made over 6000 of them in Dundalk. These are highly sought-after because of their relative rarity. The rights & plant were sold to a private company in Slough and manufactured for a number of years under the brand "Trojan". More here http://www.heinkel-trojan-club.co.uk/cabin_cruisers.htm



In the 20s and 30s there were a few manufacturers in Belfast, but none in the free state that I know of.

Apparently the only door that was on the 'Heinkel Cabin Cruiser' was at the front, it opened outward, the car also had no reverse gear, so if you drove it right up to a wall you were buggered.

C_Breeze

Sparks400 wrote:

Apparently the only door that was on the 'Heinkel Cabin Cruiser' was at the front, it opened outward, the car also had no reverse gear, so if you drove it right up to a wall you were buggered.

HAHAHA. oh man - lack of logical reasoning or what!! imagine crashing into a tree or another car.

on a side note , in that pic why is it Left hand drive and have German reg plates??


ALSO : this isnt what i intended when i started this thread , but do go on.

el tel

Great info ds20prefecture. Never knew that!

(Apart from the integrated headlights,the Henkel is not at all unlike the BMW Isetta of the same era)

P2ssw0rd

bazz26 wrote:

Also anyone who is trying to sell their car and takes a picture of it in the dark is either not the brightest tool in the shed or is hiding something.

The body kit looks as if it was only put on yeserday, it looks like it isn't even sprayed.

That car looks absolutley atrocious! The front bumper looks like it was crashed and put back together, maybe that's what he means by 'Irish made car'. I would think that putting something like that on an add would discourage people from buying it. I mean, really, would you buy a car that was made in this country? We can't even glue train tracks to concrete properly.:rolleyes:

G Luxel

there used to be american cars assembled here too as well as dkws and opels at one stage. The american cars originated in CKD form from Canada.

theShire

anyone else take a look at the pic of the front- doesn't look like the Mazda badge to me! more than likely it's a Eunos which means definate import!

was the mx-3 even available to buy in this country- if it was then this would be fairly rare- I don't think i've ever seen a genuine Irish mx-3 on the road

Esel

Sparks400 wrote:

Apparently the only door that was on the 'Heinkel Cabin Cruiser' was at the front, it opened outward, the car also had no reverse gear, so if you drove it right up to a wall you were buggered.

Maybe this 'car' was so light and small that your foot was the reverse gear?

Gatster

"irish made car"

Leprechauns, they're everywhere. I caught 8 of them last night attempting to build me a Buggati Veyron in my back garden until I shooed them off with a broom.

Dead

wow i senn them before there great lil bangers

toffeapple

Didnt they used to make chryslers hear?

sharkman

toffeapple wrote:

Didnt they used to make chryslers hear?

Yeah , Chrysler had a plant in Santry , its where the garda Station is now .

mike65

Gatster wrote:

Leprechauns, they're everywhere. I caught 8 of them last night attempting to build me a Buggati Veyron in my back garden until I shooed them off with a broom.

Thanks for that! I needed a laugh.

Mike.

JamesM

el tel wrote:

The only other cars manufactured in Ireland I can think of are the Clan Crusader, Clan Clover and the Shamrock job. All of which are junk AFAIK.

(The Brittains Group also assembled British Leyland cars on the Naas Road - more junk)

The Brittain Group assembled Morris cars for years at Portobello. They included the Morris Minor and the Mini.
Lincoln and Nolan assembled all the Austin range here as well. Not exactly JUNK in their day. They were the most popular cars in Ireland after Ford. They later merged and became the Leyland Group. Brittains were also the first people to import Japenese cars to Ireland. They were the Datsun (later Nissan) importers.
Jim.

blastman

I thought I read somewhere (possibly the Irish Times Motoring section), that there was an Irish car manufacturer back in the fifties, based in Cavan. I can't for the life of me remember the marque name, though. Supposedly it was the only Irish car manufacturer. Can anyone confirm this or am I going mad (always a possibility!)?

lostinsuperfunk

The first VWs to be assembled outside Germany were made in Ballsbridge - see www.vwmadeinireland.com
And I remember my parents had a Fiat 128 with a 'Guaranteed Irish' logo on the back!