After the first five months of the year, Renault is a clear leader in the scrappage sales polls with over 1,358 reclaims made by new Renault owners under the Government Scrappage Scheme.
In all there were 7,368 reclaims made to the end of May, according to statistics compiled by Revenue. Renault Ireland leads the scrappage table followed by Ford at 15 per cent and Skoda at 10 per cent.
Renault introduced its own scrappage scheme in September 2009, months before the Government's own scheme was announced and offered double scrappage on all cars of eight years and over, while also offering attractive trade-in allowances on all brands and models.
Eric Basset, managing director of Renault Ireland said: “The Renault scrappage scheme, coupled with the Government scrappage, has certainly shown a big improvement in our orders for 2010. We are very happy to be number one for scrappage in May and are delighted to be offering cleaner, safer, more economical cars to the Irish public at very affordable prices.”
Scrappage scheme Top 10 brands
Make Units % share
Renault 1358 18
Ford 1094 15
Skoda 715 10
Volkswagen 683 10
Toyota 557 8
Kia 503 7
Hyundai 464 6
Opel 381 5
Nissan 355 5
Fiat 231 3
Scrappage Scheme by County
County Units % share
Carlow 98 1.33%
Cavan 99 1.34%
Clare 241 3.27%
Cork 1178 15.99%
Donegal 241 3.27%
Dublin 1758 23.86%
Galway 416 5.65%
Kerry 285 3.87%
Kildare 291 3.95%
Kilkenny 168 2.28%
Laois 108 1.47%
Leitrim 42 0.57%
Limerick 368 4.99%
Longford 60 0.81%
Louth 188 2.55%
Mayo 198 2.69%
Meath 236 3.20%
Monaghan 64 0.87%
Offaly 93 1.26%
Roscommon 115 1.56%
Sligo 114 1.55%
Tipperary 273 3.71%
Waterford 194 2.63%
Westmeath 141 1.91%
Wexford 194 2.63%
Wicklow 205 2.78%
Total 7368 100%
