Golden oldies: the Kilkenny cars with 10 or more owners

There are almost 500 cars  in Kilkenny that have had ten or more owners, according to a new survey,

In total, Kilkenny has 464 cars with ten or more owners that are still on the road.

Tipperary has the highest number of ‘golden oldie’ vehicles out of our neghbouring counties, followed by Waterford on 649. The figure for Carlow is 370.

Across the 26 counties there are 17,166 vehicles that have had 10 or more owners – 3,598 of these are in Dublin and 1,883 in Cork.

The figures are from Cartell.ie. a company that specialises in tracking vehicle histories. It found that the majority of vehicles in Ireland are on their first, second or third owner.

The average age of a vehicle in the Irish fleet (all vehicle types) is  8.60 years and the average number of owners is 2.54 owners per vehicle.