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Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Mini Countryman
Years built: 2010 to 2017 Bodystyles: Five-door compact SUV What is it? When is a Mini not a Mini? When it’s a Maxi, would have been the obvious...
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Which cars are more likely to be write offs?
With a seemingly unstoppable tide of imported cars still rolling onto Irish shores from the UK, we do appear to be importing something of a probl...
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Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Honda Insight IMA Hybrid
Years built: 2009 to 2014 Bodystyles: Five-door hatchback What is it? We’re talking about the second-generation Insight, here. Way back in 199...
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New Car Sales down 5% in January whilst Used Car Imports surge again
Official figures released today by Motorcheck show that new car sales in January 2018 have decreased slightly on last year with 37k units sold co...
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2018’s big motoring trend — increasing petrol and hybrid sales, and imports, will drive down diesel values
The switch has been pretty dramatic. From 2008 to 2017, you couldn’t pull Irish buyers away from their diesels. Driven by a low taxation rate, bo...
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VRT.ie and Motorcheck announce partnership
VRT.ie and Motorcheck partnership We are delighted to announce that Motorcheck has joined forces with VRT.ie to create a unique partnership, whic...
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Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Audi A1
Years built: 2010 to today Bodystyles: Premium small hatchback What is it? The A1 should have been something of a disappointment — it effectively...
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To PCP or not to PCP?
With January looming fast in the windscreen, the time has come to make decisions on your car buying for 2018. Buy new in January? Buy used? An im...
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Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Kia Sportage MkII
Years built: 2005 to 2010 Bodystyles: SUV What is it? The second-generation Kia Sportage tends to get a bit lost in the mists of motoring history...
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The myth of car reliability - Which brand's are actually the most relaible?
What’s a reliable car? Which brands are the most reliable? If you thought, briefly, about that question and answered ‘anything Japanese’ or ‘Toyo...
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Used Car Buyers Guide: Opel Zafira
Years built: 2005 to 2014 Bodystyles: Seven-seat MPV What is it? There’s something of a run on good seven-seaters at the moment, as the recent ba...
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Has the budget tipped the balance in favour of electric cars?
The short answer to the question posed in the headline is… no. The announcement of a one-year zero-rate for Benefit In Kind on electric vehicles...