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...
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...
Pandemic, Covid-19 and Coronavirus are front of mind for us all currently. People are endeavouring to stay virus free, maintain social distancing...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
News that ride-hailing service Uber has seen its licence to operate in London revoked came filed under ‘hardly surprising.’ Transport for London...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Irish car buyers are increasingly factoring climate change concerns into their car buying decisions. That’s according to research from Europcar M...
Ireland can meet its ambitious carbon emissions reductions more easily by encouraging the take-up of hybrid cars, rather than cars powered...
Aston Martin is claiming a world first (although Jaguar might have something to say about that) with the creation of an electric-powered version...
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...
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...
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...
Could Amazon eventually be the tech company that does more to drive forward autonomous cars than, say, Google or Uber? Given that Apple ha...
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...
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...
Years built: 2012 to 2019 Bodystyles: Compact SUV What is it?
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...
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...
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...
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...
Greenhouse gas emissions from cars are actually rising right now, across Europe, and that could in the very near future spell restrictions on car...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Motorcheck examines how the prospect of banning Used Car imports from the UK might affect the market. Well, should we? Some interesting, ‘terrify...
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...