It may be worth keeping in mind that if you do see a car in the UK now and feel that you want to hold it but its better to buy post july you can always get the garage to hold it for you by leaving a deposit
I thought that the VRT changes in July only applied to brand new cars i.e 2008 registrations that were being regsitered in Ireland for the first time regardless of whether they were sourced in Ireland, England, France etc and that second hand cars were not effected, or is this just effective for motor tax purposes
The vrt changes are for all cars after july. The motor tax however only changes for new cars registered from january 2008 and is also based on co2.
I assume that is because if someone was importing an old car not worth much money with high emissions then they would be paying 2000 euros a year road tax!!