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COVID Car Sales - Reasons for the Motor Trade to be optimistic in 2021
The New Car market is down more than 20% and the Used Car market is down 6% in January 2021, but with restrictions continuing until Easter and a...
2 months ago -
Used Car Sales Bounce Back
Sales of Used Cars in June 2020 have increased by more than 25% compared to June 2019 (figures to June 30th 2020) Used Car Sales Up 25% in...
9 months ago -
Car cleaning and Coronavirus
Pandemic, Covid-19 and Coronavirus are front of mind for us all currently. People are endeavouring to stay virus free, maintain social distancing...
1 year ago -
Could flying cars become a reality?
In the midst of all the worries and panic over Covid-19 and the lockdown that Ireland is currently experiencing, we thought it might make a ple...
1 year ago -
Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Peugeot 208
Years built: 2012 to 2020 Bodystyles: Three-and-five-door supermini What is it? There’s a new Peugeot 208 just gone on sale, so this seems lik...
1 year ago -
Irish buyers still lack trust in electric cars
If the results of a survey by Allianz Insurance into the attitudes of Irish drivers towards electric cars is to be believed, then there is a grea...
1 year ago -
Nox Levy & BREXIT halt the growth of UK car imports
Used cars imported from the UK in Jan 2020 are down almost 26% on last year due mainly to the Nox Levy The latest used car sales stats release...
1 year ago -
Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Seat Ateca
Years built: 2016 to today Bodystyles: Five-door family crossover What is it? Seat’s mid-size family crossover has never managed to top the sales...
1 year ago -
Explosives could make electric cars safer
One of the unintended consequences of the rise of electric cars is that they present a whole new raft of issues for emergency services. Chief amo...
1 year ago -
Uber under fire for emissions as we have to ask; can we afford robot cars?
News that ride-hailing service Uber has seen its licence to operate in London revoked came filed under ‘hardly surprising.’ Transport for London...
1 year ago -
Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Lexus CT200h
Years built: 2011 to today Bodystyles: Small hybrid hatchback What is it? The Lexus CT200h has, for quite some time now, been the luxury Japanese...
1 year ago -
Could English drivers pick up Irish bargain used cars?
Have we just entered a mysterious mirror universe where car buyers in the UK are flocking to Ireland to pick up bargain used cars? Not quite, but...
1 year ago -
Car makers defend performance as emissions targets loom
Europe’s car makers look likely to be able to hit stringent EU-mandated limits for Co2 emissions by 2021, but only if they all manage to push thr...
1 year ago -
Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Skoda Fabia
Years built: 2007 to 2014 Bodystyles: Small hatchback and estate What is it? This is the second generation Skoda Fabia, a car that built on the i...
1 year ago -
Irish motorists: We want greener cars, or maybe no cars at all
Irish car buyers are increasingly factoring climate change concerns into their car buying decisions. That’s according to research from Europcar M...
1 year ago -
Are we focusing too much on electric cars?
Ireland can meet its ambitious carbon emissions reductions more easily by encouraging the take-up of hybrid cars, rather than cars powered...
1 year ago -
Should I convert my classic car to electric?
Aston Martin is claiming a world first (although Jaguar might have something to say about that) with the creation of an electric-powered version...
1 year ago -
Can tax changes really stop the car imports flood?
In spite of a generally improving economy in Ireland, sales of new cars continue to fall, or at least to flatline, in the face of every-gro...
1 year ago -
Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Mitsubishi Pajero
Years built: 2006 to 2018 Bodystyles: Large SUV What is it? It seems almost odd that the Mitsubishi Pajero is no longer in production. Orig...
1 year ago -
Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Skoda Octavia
Years built: 2013 to today Bodystyles: Five-door hatchback, estate What is it? Would you believe me if I told you that the Skoda Octavia is curre...
1 year ago -
Is Amazon getting into the car-making business?
Could Amazon eventually be the tech company that does more to drive forward autonomous cars than, say, Google or Uber? Given that Apple ha...
1 year ago -
Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Peugeot 508
Years built: 2011 to 2018 Bodystyles: Family saloon and estate What is it? This is not the much-publicised new Peugeot 508, a car that’s mo...
1 year ago -
Ireland could be heading for a car market collapse in 2020
Are we heading for a major collapse of the car market in Ireland? Certainly that seems to be at the forefront of the best minds in the car indust...
1 year ago -
Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Range Rover Evoque
Years built: 2012 to 2019 Bodystyles: Compact SUV What is it?
1 year ago -
‘Petrol cars will go the way of the steam engine’ — Jay Leno
Subhead: TV star and legendary car nut is resigned to the death of internal combustion, but are Irish buyers ready? “There’s almost no reason to...
1 year ago -
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...
1 year 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years ago
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