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Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Ford Mondeo
Years built: 2007 to Date Bodystyles: Four-door saloon, five-door liftback, estate What is it? It’s the car that once we all owned but which now so many of us h...
by Michael Rochford
12 years ago -
Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Audi A4
Years built: 2008 to today Bodystyles: Four-door saloon, five-door sports estate What is it? It is, apparently, the one that everyone wants. Audi has become the...
by Michael Rochford
12 years ago -
Motorcheck Used Car Guide: BMW 3 Series
Years built: 2005 to 2011 Bodystyles: Four-door saloon, five-door estate, two-door coupe What is it? It’s the one we all want, at least if you listen to the int...
by Michael Rochford
12 years ago -
Hyper Inflation in the Used Car Market
Used car prices rise by as much as 32% in four years. As anyone who has tried to buy a used car in the past few years will have found out, doing so has become...
by Michael Rochford
12 years ago -
Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Skoda Octavia
Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Skoda Octavia Years built: 2004 to 2013 Bodystyles: Five-door hatchback, estate What is it? It’s the one that finally, once and for a...
by Michael Rochford
12 years ago -
Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Honda Civic
Years built: 2006 to 2012 Bodystyles: Three-and-five-door hatchback What is it? Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Honda Civic. It’s the space age one. Honda, stung by...
by Michael Rochford
12 years ago -
Toyota Recall 6.39m Vehicles Worldwide
8,500 Irish vehicles thought to be affected by the latest Toyota recall With their impeccable reputation for reliability, the Toyota recall of 6.39m vehicles is...
by Michael Rochford
12 years ago -
Car electrics - electric dreams or nightmares?
I can still remember when the first ‘multiplex’ wiring systems were introduced just over a decade ago. These fibre optic cabling setups were the automotive equi...
by Michael Rochford
12 years ago -
Car Colours
I can still remember the day. I was lucky enough to be stooging around in an Alfa Romeo, a Giulietta Cloverleaf hot hatch. It was a brisk, fun to drive car but...
by Michael Rochford
12 years ago -
Getting the best out of your trade-in
This week we examine the lost art of trading-in your old car at the local dealers and advise how to make the best of that depreciating asset stuck on your drive...
by Michael Rochford
12 years ago -
Motorcheck Used Car Guide: VW Golf MkV & VI
Years built: 2004 to 2012 Bodystyles: Three-and-five-door hatchback, five-door estate, five-door compact MPV What is it? The Golf has gone from its birth in 197...
by Michael Rochford
12 years ago -
Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Nissan Qashqai Mk1
Years built: 2007 to 2014 Bodystyles: Five-door compact crossover What is it? The arrival of the Qashqai was quite a shock, coming from the company that had jus...
by Michael Rochford
12 years ago
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