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10% of Irish motorists have suffered a breakdown in the past six months
According to recent research from Automobile Association, 10% of Irish motorists have experienced a breakdown of some sort or another within the past six months. They surveyed 7,000 motorists who use their Rescue Breakdown Services and 3.84% of respondents revealed they had a breakdown in the past month. A further 7.25% reported having experienced a breakdown between 1 month and...
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Burglary gang on 2 hour high speed chase across Dublin Mountains
A car that led gardaí on a two-hour chase across Dublin last week has been recovered. The €70,000 Black Audi S3 which was stolen seven days before had been used in a number of burglaries in South Dublin. It was last Tuesday when the Gardaí pursued the car through the Dublin mountains for two hours before being outrun by the...
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Number of new cars licensed down 20% in February
According to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the number of new cars licensed in Ireland in February fell by 20.2 per cent compared to the same month last year (2016). A total of 16,905 new cars were licensed in February 2017 which is quite a drop from the 21,173 licenced during February 2016. It turned out...
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Hiring a Car Instead of Buying a Car May Be More Economical for Some?
With the rising cost of motor insurance in Ireland, many people are looking at different ways to save money. Some have come up with ingenious ways to cut costs such as renting or hiring a car on a regular basis. This is what one lady from Mullingar and now based in Dublin as a school teacher, Sue Whyte (34) discovered...
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Barcelona to Ban Older Cars
More and more cities across Europe are placing ever-stricter controls on cars and pollution. Barcelona is the latest city to bring in new regulations on car pollution which will come into effect in 2019. Under the new plan cars built before 1997 and vans and trucks built before 1994 will not be allowed to drive in the city on weekdays....
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Gardai seize vehicle after driver uses a vise-grip to stop brake fluid leaking
One of the latest tweets shared on the official An Garda Síochána Twitter account has revealed quite a dangerous action by one driver. Guards from the Dublin Metropolitan Region stopped a vehicle because it was discovered it had no tax, insurance or NCT. On further examination of the vehicle, they also discovered it was in a very dangerous and unroadworthy...
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Warren Buffett says self-driving cars will hurt the insurance industry
Self-driving cars could hurt the insurance industry Billionaire investor, Warren Buffett said that the self-driving cars could become a major threat to the insurance industry when the technology hits the market. If electric autonomous vehicles prove to be safer than regular cars, insurance costs will plummet. The billionaire believes by the time self-driving cars hit the roads in force, insurers...
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Lady Drives the Same Car for Almost 60 Years!
Have you ever had a car that you never wanted to part with? Well, that’s how one woman felt, so much so that she has kept her car for almost 60 years. Watch this amazing video showing Grace Braeger driving her 57 Chevy. Grace Braeger originally bought her Chevrolet for $2,250 and she likes it so much, she said she’ll...
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Republic of Ireland in breach of EU law on VRT
It has been found that Ireland has been in breach of EU law by charging the full vehicle registration tax (VRT) on vehicles entering the State on a temporary basis. The ruling by European Court of Justice will be particularly felt on the Border where vehicles entering the Republic from Northern Ireland are routinely prosecuted for not paying VRT. The...
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Video shows Tesla Model S slamming into central reservation while driving on Autopilot
The video shows a Tesla Model S slamming into the central reservation while driving on Autopilot Level 3 autonomous cars are already on roads all across the world and so it is inevitable that some are going to be involved in an accident at some stage. The video above shows one such example of a semi-autonomous vehicle in a collision....