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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...
1 week 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...
1 month 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...
2 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...
3 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...
4 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...
5 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,...
6 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...
7 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...
8 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,...
9 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...
9 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...
11 months 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 -
The best British cars you can buy
While the Germans get the credit for inventing the modern motor car, the Brits got into the game pretty quickly too — one Henry Sturmey was buil...
1 year ago -
Is it better to buy or lease a car?
With peak car-buying season rapidly approaching, along with the new 241-plate in January, it seems like a good time to consider a commonly-asked...
1 year ago -
The best French cars you can buy
French cars often get a good kicking in some circles. Too unreliable, cheaply-made, too quirky, weird steering wheels… As is so often the case,...
1 year ago -
What to do if your car overheats?
With temperatures soaring across Europe this summer, there’s perhaps something of an irony in that nature can hit back at the car for all those...
1 year ago -
What is tyre balancing?
It’s one of those motoring chores that many of us ignore, and many more of us simply don’t understand. So, what is tyre balancing and why do we...
1 year ago -
How long do penalty points last?
Since they were introduced in 2002, the penalty points system for motoring offences have been considered a major weapon in the war against dange...
1 year ago -
How do I know how much my car is worth?
Figuring out the value of your car is a vital process when it’s coming up to trade-in time, or if you want to sell it yourself, privately. While...
1 year ago -
What to pack for a road trip
Packing for a big road trip is vital, because there will always be something you need and you don’t want that thing to be the one you left sitti...
2 years ago -
How is VRT calculated and are the rules changing?
VRT — Vehicle Registration Tax — is essentially a hold-over from the days when Irish governments used taxes to protect and promote indigenous in...
2 years ago -
How to clean your car’s seats
Washing your car is a ritual. Whether you break out a bucket and sponges on your own driveway, or bring it down to the local jet wash, making yo...
2 years ago -
What Are the Best Selling Cars in Ireland?
2023 seems like an appropriate point at which to pause, and take stock of the Irish car market. A decade ago, new car sales started to recover f...
2 years ago -
How much mileage is too much for a used van?
The average mileage on a van, or a light commercial vehicle to give it its technically accurate name, is generally higher than that for a passen...
2 years ago -
The nine car warning lights you shouldn’t ignore
Whenever you turn the ignition key in your car, or press the start button, you should see a full Christmas tree’s worth of warning and sensor li...
2 years ago -
What is a hybrid car?
Hybrid-engined cars have hit the heights of the car sales charts in recent years, but what exactly is a hybrid? Basically, a hybrid is a car t...
2 years ago -
Do electric cars hold their value?
Resale value is a key component of a car’s running costs. Indeed, given that an average car can shed 60 per cent of its original price in the fi...
2 years ago
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