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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...
6 days 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,...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
3 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...
4 months 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...
5 months 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...
6 months 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...
7 months 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...
8 months 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...
8 months 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...
9 months 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...
10 months 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...
10 months 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...
11 months 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...
11 months 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago -
Should I be worried about NCT delays?
There are plenty of stories circulating about delays in getting your car through its NCT test, with some testing centres returning booking dates...
1 year ago -
How much can I bargain on a used car?
How much can you bargain on a used car? The short answer is ‘lots’ but as ever, it’s a little more complicated than that. The first thing to d...
1 year ago -
Why is my car using so much fuel?
Fuel prices have, thankfully, retreated somewhat from their recent peaks, but with continuing production and refining bottlenecks in the oil ind...
1 year ago -
What’s the best time of year to sell my car?
Timing, as any comedian will tell you, is everything. What goes for comedy also goes for car sales, as there are always peaks and troughs in the...
1 year ago -
What does a used car warranty cover?
It used to be the case that, when buying a used car, the dealer you’d bought it from might offer you, at best, a 30-day warranty for anything th...
2 years ago -
What is Too Much Mileage on a Used Car?
A question you'll hear quite often, "how much km is too much for a used car?" The answer to this question is — there is no upper limit figure. I...
2 years ago -
Are diesel cars more economical?
Are diesel cars really more economical? In the past, the answer to this question would have been a simple yes. Diesel engines burn their fuel by...
2 years ago -
How much does it cost to charge an electric car?
With fuel prices spiking above €2 per litre, and no sign of them falling, many of us are thinking about turning to all-electric motoring much so...
2 years ago
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