Eddie Cunningham When it comes to buying a used car privately, so many people put so much trust in strangers that it beggars belief. We accept their word for it that a potential killing m...

Posted 11 years ago

FIACH KELLY POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT – 01 APRIL 2013 ALL cars undergoing the National Car Test (NCT) will face strict measures to make sure they aren't 'clocked', under new rules being drawn ...

Posted 11 years ago

Citroën DS3 has been ranked 'Best Supermini' in the UK's 2013 What Car? JD Power survey. In its very first showing, DS3 received an 82.2% satisfaction score - the overall industry average was 77.6...

Posted 10 years ago

CEO and Chairman Carlos Ghosn has confirmed that the Renault-Nissan Alliance is developing all-new vehicles to meet the specific demands of new car buyers in the world's fastest growing economies. ...

Posted 10 years ago

Volkswagen beware – there could very well be a cuckoo in the nest.  This foe whipping customers from under your very nose is not Japanese, Chinese or even Korean. Nope, it’s much closer...

Posted 10 years ago

By Padraic Deane An original field of 51 candidates for the Continental Irish Car of the Year 2014 awards has been reduced to 16, the Irish Motoring Writers Association (IMWA) has announced. A...

Posted 10 years ago

The Toyota Auris Van and Ssangyong Korando Commercial have been named Category Winners of the Continental Irish Van of the Year 2014 title by the Irish Motoring Writers Association (IMWA) Van Jur...

Posted 10 years ago

Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Leo Varadkar is set to move amendments to the Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013 on Wednesday which will introduce the offence of “interference with the odomet...

Posted 10 years ago

Transport, Tourism and Sports Minister Leo Varadkar is moving to deal with two issue that have been a dark shadow over the motor industry for a long time. The offences of ‘car mileage clocking’ an...

Posted 10 years ago

New car sales for the first quarter of this year are up by 26 per cent on the same period last year, figures just released by the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) confirm. Sales in March ...

Posted 10 years ago

Demand for new cars continues to grow in Europe, with year-on-year sales increasing for an eighth consecutive month, according to the latest analysis from JATO Dynamics. At the end of April volumes...

Posted 9 years ago

The number of new private cars licensed for the first time increased by 9.5 per cent in May 2014 when compared to May 2013, CSO figures reveal.  New car sales rose to 7,767 during May. Used...

Posted 9 years ago

By Peter O'Dwyer Strong motor sales drove a 6.2% increase in the volume of retail sales in May, compared to the same period last year. This represents a 0.9% monthly increase from April of this yea...

Posted 9 years ago

A total of 4,264 new cars were registered on Tuesday, the first day of the new 142 registration plate, surpassing all expectations. The Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) had previously outlin...

Posted 9 years ago

The number of new cars licensed for the first time increased by 50.8 per cent to 14,037 in July compared with the same month last year. The jump, detailed in figures released from the Central ...

Posted 9 years ago

New research by a UK-based luxury finance broker has revealed the ten cars that are most popular with Premiership footballers. Oracle Finance says that a large number of Premiership players fund th...

Posted 9 years ago

Latest Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) figures show 89,279 new cars have been registered so far in 2014 - 15,000 more than all of last year. SIMI estimates that 4,200 new jobs have been ...

Posted 9 years ago

New car sales rose by 12.1 per cent in November, with 1,465 cars licensed during the month. However the sale of second-hand imported cars fell by 6.9 per cent to 4,177 when compared with November 2013...

Posted 9 years ago

A bumper year for new Irish car sales in 2014 looks likely to continue in 2015. The latest figures for 2014, from Motorcheck.ie, show the market is up 30% on 2013 figures. The industry had predicte...

Posted 9 years ago

If you wanted to choose a new car launch that actually makes more of a difference to more of the people, then it’s this one. Aston Martins and Ferraris may make more headlines and draw in the glamou...

Posted 9 years ago

The number of new cars taxed for the first time during the first three months of this year is up 33.5 per cent on the same period last year. By the end of March there were 52,543 new private cars taxe...

Posted 9 years ago

German car giant stays ahead of rivals with a 5.4% increase in car sales for the first three months of the year. BERLIN--BMW AG defended its position as the world's top premium car brand ...

Posted 9 years ago

The Lexus IS was designed to take on German sports sedans like the BMW 3 Series, and for 2016 it gets an update that brings it in line with the latest trend followed by those benchmark ...

Posted 8 years ago

New car sales have already reached 109,960, the first time they have exceeded 100,000 since 2008. Registration figures for July show that 27,633 new cars were registered, up 47.68 per cent on the same...

Posted 8 years ago

The new Renault Espace, Jaguar’s new XE saloon and the Mercedes-AMG C63 are among the latest cars to be factory fitted with Dunlop tyres. The latest version of the renowned Renault Espace will be...

Posted 8 years ago

The number of new cars licensed in the first nine months of the year rose by 31.7 per cent compared to the same period in 2014, according to the Central Statistics Office(CSO). The latest figu...

Posted 8 years ago

An initial investigation into the Volkswagen Group’s array of cheating scandals has cleared the carmaker of claims it systematically cheated on CO2 figures. While the investigations continue in t...

Posted 8 years ago

  New car sales are predicted to be in the region of 150,000 for 2016, up from the 124,945 registered in 2015. Figures from the Society of the Irish motor industry show new car registrati...

Posted 8 years ago

The choice and variety of cars currently on the market is unprecedented, our analysis of the models on sale reveals today. The number of variants and segment-busting new models this year puts the l...

Posted 8 years ago

The XF is the car that saved Jaguar. We might not recognise it right now, but in the annals of the big cat’s history, the XF will be a turning point. Until then the firm was in a nostalgia t...

Posted 8 years ago

  New car sales rose 33.6 per cent in January compared to the same month last year, with 39,812 new 161 registrations. Hyundai finished the month as the best-selling brand with 5,062...

Posted 8 years ago

Germany’s Audi and BMW sold fewer vehicles in January than luxury rival Mercedes-Benz, which has benefited from a continued surge in Chinese demand for its compact cars and sport...

Posted 8 years ago

Despite strong topline figures for the year to date, the recovery in new car sales seems to have been shortlived. New car sales have increased again in 2016, and are now running at 23 per cent high...

Posted 7 years ago

Aidan Timmons and Motoring Editor Eddie Cunningham team up to help readers make the right choice with their next car. Aidan visits dealers all over the country to produce a monthly guidebook on th...

Posted 7 years ago

The Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) has issued 162 car registrations for the month of August showing an increase of 14 per cent (7,313) when compared to August 2015 (6,400), while the total...

Posted 7 years ago

Audi is the most desirable car brand in Ireland, according to a survey of nearly 4,000 motorists. In contrast, Renault was selected as the brand they would least consider buying from a list of th...

Posted 7 years ago

Stanford economist, Tony Seba, thinks that the global oil business will end as soon as 2030. In less than a decade consumers will find it difficult to search for petrol pumps, spares and even mechanic...

Posted 6 years ago