Ireland

[Des]

 

 

[messerschmitt owner]

made in Dundalk

 

[Mr Lobster]

Built in Ireland for a while -

[Ross_K]

 

Not looking too good, is it?

 

 

 

 

[ashmicro]

Citroen built cars in RoI from CKD, but I don't remember which model. Some Fords as well.

[Ross_K]

Citroen built cars in RoI from CKD, but I don't remember which model. Some Fords as well.

 

Ford had a plant in Cork. Apparently productivity was shocking. Quality was crap too - it was the reason my Dad swore off Fords.

Story goes that, per employee, it took them a week to make the same amount of Cortinas as the German plant was putting out in a day...

 

Everybody was doing CKD: Citroen, Mercedes, Renault, Rootes. The good old days of protectionism...

[ashmicro]

BL missed a trick there: we could have had an Irish Rover

[vulgalour]

The Shamrock is a bit of an odd thing really. I forget the history and cba to Google it. Here's a picture of one in Americaland, check out that tuck.

 

 

The roof line does it no favours. What an epically doomed bit of shiting history.

 

Still would, like.

[M'coli]

Clan Crusader by Albert S. Bite, on Flickr

[shedvan]

Citroen built cars in RoI from CKD, but I don't remember which model. Some Fords as well.

 

Ford had a plant in Cork. Apparently productivity was shocking. Quality was crap too - it was the reason my Dad swore off Fords.

Story goes that, per employee, it took them a week to make the same amount of Cortinas as the German plant was putting out in a day...

 

Everybody was doing CKD: Citroen, Mercedes, Renault, Rootes. The good old days of protectionism...

 

The bit about the Cork Ford plant sounds like 100% pure bullonium, sort of mildly racist, vaguely right wing tosh that casually ignores the fact that a small factory in Cork producing Cortinas at that rate would be actually doing quite well

[Mash]

The Fiat 1100 was assembled in Ireland

 

[Ross_K]

The bit about the Cork Ford plant sounds like 100% pure bullonium, sort of mildly racist, vaguely right wing tosh that casually ignores the fact that a small factory in Cork producing Cortinas at that rate would be actually doing quite well

 

Sorry, my numbers were WAY out. Have a read of this sometime: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Are-You-Still-B ... 1905172494

 

In 1984 Dagenham was knocking out 1000 Sierras a day, while Cork was managing 80... Genk was doing 1400-1500 a day.

 

I'd say the place would have been shitcanned years before only for the fact that the area had ties to the Ford family.

[Des]

Come to think of it my first car, in Ireland, was a moggie, and I think it was assembled there, my second car was a Corolla, I have retained the VIN plate as a souvenir, appears it was born in the snake free zone, check the hand engraving.

 

[Ross_K]

Never knew they made KE20's in Ireland - cool.

 

I remember when I was a kid my cousin was a Toyota mechanic and used to bring home all kinds of Toyotas. His own ride was a KE20. I remember my 5-year-old mind thinking the light over the radio was the coolest thing ever. Green light, but flip down the thingamajig and it was some kind of map reading light...

[hairnet]

 

if its got shamrock etched in window its irish assembled

[Ross_K]

The first Beetle made outside Germany was made in Ireland. It's in the VW corporate museum in Germany. And no, it doesn't have a roof rack.