Car News recent articles in category Motoring News
-
New car sales down 3.9% in first quarter of 2018
New car sales down New CSO (Central Statistics Office) figures show a total of 16,088 new private cars were licensed for the first time last month which, for the first time, was a fall of 6.4% compared to the same time in March last year. When comparing new private cars licensed for the first time in March 2018 to March...
-
BMW opens new campus for self-driving cars
BMW has opened new a brand new campus for self-driving cars near Munich, in preparation for introducing its own self-driving car to the auto market. Germany has certainly been focused on the electric self-driving car market, with German companies holding nearly 50 percent of the patents in the world for driverless car technology. BMW is taking this vested interest a...
-
New book on Ireland’s Auto Manufacturing and Assembling History
New book on Ireland’s Auto Manufacturing and Assembling History - A rare insight into our motoring history: When 50 brands assembled cars here A new book is being released on Monday celebrating Ireland’s Automotive Manufacturing history. Ireland is not necessarily remembered for or even associate with vehicle manufacturing anymore but at one time it did indeed have an automotive...
-
Northern Ireland New Car Sales Plunge
The latest Motor industry data from Northern Ireland shows that the new car market has dropped by 16.8 per cent in March. The Northern Ireland new car sales decelerated during March with 1,434 fewer new cars being driven off forecourts compared with the same month last year. The latest figures come from the UK’s Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders...
-
€25m in motor tax denied to Limerick according to Councillor
Over €42 million euro was collected in motor tax last year in Limerick but only a small part of this was actually spent on the road network according to Fine Gael’s Councillor Adam Teskey. At a meeting in Limerick, he informed Adare and Rathkeale councillors that just €16.8m was spent out of a total of €42m on local and regional...
-
Change of vehicle ownership
Changing car ownership If you buy, sell or trade-in a used vehicle, you will need to register for the transfer of vehicle ownership from its current owner to the new owner of the vehicle. For vehicles registered before January 1993, a RF200 form is needed to change the ownership of the vehicle to an individual or a company. The RF200...
-
German diesel car sales plunge again in March
There has been another steep decline in diesel-car sales in Germany in March. The acceleration in the decline comes in the first month after a court ruled that cities can ban vehicles to tackle pollution. Germany is Europe’s largest auto market and sales of diesel-powered cars have plunged by a quarter last month. An automotive watchdog in Germany added...
-
Insurance company pays out €4k to woman after initially refusing to payout
An Irish Insurance company has paid out €4k to woman after initially refusing to pay out on the crash claim over a technicality The Financial Services Ombudsman’s office said that there were 1,914 complaints about insurance in 2017 alone. This reported incident sees an insurance company refusing to pay a woman’s claim after an accident because she told them in...
-
UK Car Manufacturing Slumps
UK Car Manufacturing Slumps Again The number of new cars built in UK fallen for the seventh consecutive month in a row indicating a decline the UK domestic market. The British car industry has stressed the importance of future EU trade after double-digit drop in production in February. The UK’s Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) reported that just...
-
What is the future of Self-driving cars in the wake of the fatal Uber collision?
What is the future of Self-driving cars in the wake of the fatal Uber collision? Video of the first self-driving car crash that killed a pedestrian suggests a “catastrophic failure” by Uber’s technology, according to experts in the field, who said the footage showed the autonomous system erring on one of its most basic functions. The death of a Elaine Herzberg who...