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04th Feb 2020

Massive drop in import of cars from UK to Ireland due to new emissions levy

Rory Cashin

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The top ten most popular imported cars have also been revealed.

A new report published by MotorCheck.ie finds that 2,354 fewer cars were imported into Ireland from the UK in January 2020, down 25.7% from the amount imported in January 2019.

A total of 6,769 cars were imported into Ireland from the UK in January, down from 9,114 from the year before, out of a total of 200,782 for all of 2019.

According to the report, the reason for this is largely down to two main contributing factors.

The first is Brexit-related (obviously), and with the Sterling’s stabilising strength once the deadline of Brexit was confirmed.

And the other was the introduction of the NOx Levy, which arrived on 1 January 2020.

The NOx Levy is an additional amount levied against the Nox emissions of a vehicle which must be paid on top of the standard VRT amount on first registration of a vehicle in the state.

The report also revealed the top ten models that are imported into Ireland via the UK:

  1. Volkswagen Golf
  2. BMW 5 Series
  3. Ford Focus
  4. Nissan Qashqai
  5. Audi A6
  6. Volkswagen Passat
  7. Mercedes-Benz E-Class
  8. Audi A4
  9. Mercedes-Benz C-Class
  10. Hyundai Tcuson

The full report can be found here.