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Unique cars: When is $1million just too much?
Would you be prepared to pay $1 million for a car with a Toyota or a Volkswagen badge? While your initial answer might be ‘no way’ perhaps it’s s...
10 months ago -
Autonomous driving systems have hidden dangers
Even now, it can be unnerving. Switching on such systems as active, radar-guided cruise control, or a lane-keeping assistant, systems that can te...
1 year ago -
New MotorCheck Brand
Ireland's best Car History Check website Motorcheck.ie will soon be re-branding, so this is just a little forward notice for all our existing cus...
1 year ago -
Greenhouse gas emissions - Falling diesel sales make for higher carbon emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions from cars are actually rising right now, across Europe, and that could in the very near future spell restrictions on car...
1 year ago -
MotorCheck Used Car Guide: Renault Kadjar
Years built: 2015 to today Bodystyles: Crossover SUV What is it? It’s a French Qashqai. Well, perhaps that’s a bit of a glib explanation, but tha...
1 year ago -
EU court ruling could render most diesel car sales illegal next year
Don’t let the headline above worry you, by the way. It was a bit of a ‘free beer here’ trap to grab your attention, because what follows is proba...
1 year ago -
Cold weather can cut electric car range almost in half
The February 2019 car sales figures are in and while for the most part, they make the usual, depressing reading (overall sales down by 12 per cen...
1 year ago -
UK car industry turmoil means bad news for Irish dealers
The UK motor industry and car trade is currently caught in a toxic whirlwind of Brexit uncertainty, which has triggered a major fall-off in inves...
1 year ago -
MotorCheck Used Car Guide: Kia Optima
What is it? The Optima was Kia’s first truly competitive entry into the four-door family saloon sector, arriving in 2010 with styling that verges...
1 year ago -
Should we ban Used Car imports from the UK?
Motorcheck examines how the prospect of banning Used Car imports from the UK might affect the market. Well, should we? Some interesting, ‘terrify...
1 year ago -
Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Volvo V60
What is it? Volvo’s mid-size estate was a big step up from the old V40 estate when it first arrived in 2011. Sleeker, sexier, and safer it made t...
1 year ago -
Should we copy the UK, and let learner drivers learn on motorways?
It has long been an established tenet of learning to drive that you don’t do it on the motorway. There is a blanket ban on learner drivers, held...
1 year ago
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