72-year-old car among 1.4 million NCTs last year - and it passed first time

Cars that were four years old were the most common to be tested at almost 164,000, with almost 12,000 of those coming back for retesting. File picture: Dan Linehan

A 72-year-old car was among the nearly 1.4 million NCT test and retests carried out last year, netting just under €90m in charges overall.

The oldest car to be tested passed first time, but three 40-year-old cars needed another go, figures released to Kerry TD Brendan Griffin via parliamentary question show. Of almost 1.4 milion NCTs, some €76.7m was raised from motorists, while a further 462,000 retests brought in nearly €13m.