Irish Van of the Year
It’s not just that EVs are taking over in the car world, they’re taking their place in commercial vehicles too. The Continental Tyres Van of the Year 2022 was jointly won by the trio of the Citroën e-Dispatch, Opel...
Double win for Kia
It’s a double win for Kia at the Continental Tyres Irish Car of the Year awards as their electric car, the EV6 took the title at the Aviva Stadium last Friday. The last time the awards were held in...
Battery first for Toyota
Car sales so far this year have seen a huge jump towards electrified and full EV vehicles, with Toyota, one of the biggest proponents of hybrid seeing 98% of their sales in January being hybrid. For the first time...
25,000 sales in January
New car sales for January hit just over 25,000 units, just 47 short of the same figure last year and no doubt supply issues contributed to this slight fall. Sales of vans were slightly up and sales of HGVs...
Seven Seater Electric
Mercedes have launched their latest electric car, the EQB and it will come with a seven seat option, one of the few electric options on the market with that many seats.
It joins the already launched EQA, EQC and van-based...
Electric start to Irish Car of the Year
The list of entrants for the 2022 Irish Car of the Year have been revealed and half of all eligible contenders are EVs or available in an all electric version. There has been a major upheaval in the last...
John Wall Retires
John Wall retired this week from Western Garages, having started there in 1973, bringing to an end a career of almost 50 years in the motor industry in Clare.
At the time, Western Garages was owned and run by his...
First electric Cupra is Born
The Born, Cupra’s first fully electric car, has just arrived with prices starting from under €39,000 excluding grants and delivery. Customer cars will arrive in early 2022.
It comes with a range of three power outputs with up to 231PS...
PHEV Grant Should be Reinstated – SIMI
It’s further good news this month with car sales up by just over 15% over the same period last year. Sales in October hit 2,646 in total and that translates o 103,253 new car registrations so far this year,...
EV6 is purpose built electric Kia
The EV6 is Kia’s first dedicated electric vehicle, which might seem strange given that they have been selling EVs for years but those previous designs were based on cars originally powered by internal combustion engines – petrol or diesel....
