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Best Driving Routes in Ireland 2025 Guide
Discover 5 stunning driving routes across Ireland for 2025 — from mountain passes to dramatic coastlines. We’re a small country, and often a d...
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Mid-2025 Car Trends: 5 Surprising Shifts in What’s Hot & What’s Not | Motorcheck
Small Cars, Electric Cars, Estate Cars, Driverless Cars & Car Design Just when you think you have the world of motoring figured out, new t...
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MotorCheck becomes the only vehicle history check with real EV battery diagnostics.
Determining the true Battery Health of Used Electric Vehicles and Used Hybrid Electric Vehicles is of key importance to the Motor Trade today....
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Car Maintenance Tips: Preparing Your Car for Ireland’s Weather
Summer’s coming, or at least it feels that way as these words are being written. While it’s always possible that Ireland’s weather will betray u...
2 months ago -
Driver friendly Apps Every Irish Driver Should Have on Their Phone
Phones and cars don’t generally mix well. For all the links that can be made between your phone and your car — whether via Apple CarPlay, or And...
3 months ago -
How electric cars are built in 2025
You might assume that making an electric car is much the same as making a car with a petrol or diesel engine. Simply take out said engine and fu...
4 months ago -
What’s Your Car Worth? A Guide to Understanding Depreciation in 2025
Car depreciation starts the moment you drive a new vehicle off the forecourt. While it won’t be worthless immediately, vehicle depreciation rate...
5 months ago -
Can car subscriptions take off?
Car subscription services were promised to us more than a decade ago, but for the most part they’re a promise that never really came true. That...
6 months ago -
Our favourite cars of 2024
It’s coming to the end of 2024, and Christmas is approaching fast — you can tell because of the increasing levels of Mariah Carey and Michael Bu...
7 months ago -
Car Test Drive Tips and Tricks
When it comes to buying a second hand car, the test drive is everything. Here, you not only get to find out if the car suits your driving style,...
8 months ago -
The best 4x4s in Ireland
Now, before we start on all this, we need to get our terms straight. This is not a piece about the best SUV nor crossover in Ireland. There are...
9 months ago -
What’s the best dash-cam?
It’s best to think of a dash-cam as your literal last line of defence. If all of your careful driving, your car’s safety systems, and plain old...
10 months ago -
How to save money on your car insurance
Paying for car insurance is one of the biggest issues for Irish motorists. It’s long been the case — a combination of a poor road safety record,...
11 months ago -
The best cars in movies
It’s the summer. At least it says so in the calendar. I’m not so sure, as I had to have the heating on this morning and I’m typing this while we...
11 months ago -
How to valet your car at home
Ireland often seems an unkind country when it comes to cars. In this specific instance, we’re not talking about taxation, nor insurance, nor eve...
1 year ago -
How can your fuel efficiency be improved?
With the recent rise in the cost of fuel at the pumps, many of us will be trying to find ways to stretch our fuel budgets a little further. You...
1 year ago -
Road safety tips everyone should know.
Keeping yourself safe on the road has long been a tricky game. Ireland’s road network, with its preponderance of poorly-surfaced, poorly-lit, po...
1 year ago -
What’s the best family car in 2024?
Buying the right car for a family is a tricky business. You need lots of space, of course. Some extra seats for those days when more people than...
1 year ago -
Self-driving cars — are we ready for the future?
The rise and rise of the self-driving, or autonomous car seems to be almost inevitable. Ever since the United States’ Defence Advanced Research...
1 year ago -
Classic cars for 2024
As the new year ticks around, so another tranche of favourite old cars become, officially in the eyes of the taxman, classics (or ‘vintage’ to g...
1 year ago -
The best new cars of 2023
While, at the end of 2023, it can feel as if motoring is somewhat embattled — caught between rising prices and interest rates on the one hand, a...
1 year ago -
The best Japanese cars you can buy
Back in the late sixties and early seventies, the European — and especially Irish — car markets were hit by an utter earthquake. Having built up...
1 year ago -
The best German cars you can buy
Germany invented the car, let’s not forget. While any successful invention has an infinite number of parents, it was Karl Benz who created the f...
1 year ago -
How to prepare your car for winter driving
There’s no point in saying, in a Sean Bean impression, that ‘winter is coming’ because it’s already here. Have you looked outside the window lat...
1 year ago
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