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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....
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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...
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New Car Sales for 2014 continue to soar
Latest results show a 25.4% increase on Q1 last year, with positive economic sentiment and availability of finance being touted as the biggest co...
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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...
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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 stuc...
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Car Ownership: 9 out of 10 of us could not live without a car.
92% of Irish drivers feel that their car is “essential to their life” according to a survey carried out by insurers 123.ie. That’s the average fi...
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Does car safety really sell?
You've probably never heard of Qoros. It’s a Chinese car brand, jointly owned by Beijing-based Chery Automotive and the government-backed Israel...
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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 i...
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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 compa...
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Car buying - the run-down on run-outs
A curious anomaly popped up the other day when it seemed that a handful of Peugeot 307's had been registered in January. Hang on though, wasn’t t...
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Car sales going East. Is the West falling out of love with the car?
Recent trends show that the growth in car sales is going East. This articles asks is the West falling out of love with the car. It is generally...
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End of Honeymoon for used car values?
We were all much buoyed up by the recent figures showing that the Irish motor industry had a good January. Ever since first the credit crunch and...