Imports

Ireland · August 2026 · Used imports 8 084

Used imports made up 8 084 of Ireland's 19 008 passenger-car registrations in August 2026, a 42.5% share. That is down 5.0% on July 2026 (8 508).

Ireland does not publish the country a used car was imported from, so this page shows the importing brands, their fuel and their CO₂ tax band rather than their origin.

By brand, VOLKSWAGEN was imported most often with 1 677 cars, ahead of TOYOTA (1 300) and AUDI (892).

Used imports by brand 36

#	Make	Used	% of used imports
1	VOLKSWAGEN	1 677	20.7%
2	TOYOTA	1 300	16.1%
3	AUDI	892	11.0%
4	BMW	879	10.9%
5	MERCEDES-BENZ	538	6.7%
6	HONDA	401	5.0%
7	NISSAN	237	2.9%
8	FORD	232	2.9%
9	PEUGEOT	221	2.7%
10	VOLVO	207	2.6%
11	HYUNDAI	167	2.1%
12	SKODA	128	1.6%
13	SUZUKI	111	1.4%
14	KIA	110	1.4%
15	LAND ROVER	109	1.4%
16	RENAULT	95	1.2%
17	MAZDA	94	1.2%
18	MINI	86	1.1%
19	LEXUS	78	1.0%
20	MITSUBISHI	76	0.9%
21	CITROEN	69	0.9%
22	VAUXHALL	58	0.7%
23	FIAT	40	0.5%
24	BYD	39	0.5%
25	SEAT	32	0.4%
26	PORSCHE	30	0.4%
27	TESLA	24	0.3%
28	CUPRA	19	0.2%
29	DACIA	15	0.2%
30	JAGUAR	12	0.2%
31	ALFA ROMEO	6	0.1%
32	SUBARU	6	0.1%
33	JEEP	4	0.1%
34	SMART	4	0.1%
35	OPEL	2	0.0%
	Other	86	1.1%

'Other makes' is the CSO's residual after its listed makes; brands the CSO lists at model level only (MG, Polestar, Xpeng, Leapmotor) are shown from their model rows.

12-month trend

Used imports by fuel

Used imports by CO₂ tax band

Tax band	Used	% of used imports
A	5 707	70.6%
B	1 559	19.3%
C	422	5.2%
D	161	2.0%
E	74	0.9%
F	47	0.6%
G	38	0.5%
n/a	76	0.9%

CO₂ tax band as recorded at licensing (A = lowest emissions, G = highest; n/a = not recorded). The CSO publishes no CO₂ in g/km.

Counts are the CSO's official first licensings of private cars: new cars and second-hand imports. Model rows are the CSO's make-and-model categories; about 3–4 % of new cars fall into its 'Other' category and appear in no model row. Used imports are published by make only. BEV and PHEV columns are blank before January 2024, when the CSO began publishing fuel by model.