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Tesla dominating luxury car segment in Europe
According to market research carried out by JATO Dynamics who provide automotive market intelligence to the motoring industry, the Tesla Model S is now dominating the luxury car segment in Europe. Tesla has had a foothold in its home country, the United States for a few years now but up until now it has not surpassed some of the flagship...
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Looks like Brexit may be hitting new car sales
New CSO figures show that there has been a 3.2% fall in new car sales in January compared with the same month last year. Many in the automotive industry are claiming that the economic uncertainties of Brexit are a factor. The latest figures from the Central Statistics Office has showed that in addition to the 3.2% decrease in new car...
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Why is the Irish driving test so hard, expensive and difficult to pass?
Why is the driving test so hard and expensive? Passing a driving test is certainly not easy and always challenging, expensive and stressful, except, seemingly for Mexico, where it would seem for the moment, you don’t have to sit a driving test). In stark contrast to Mexico and many other parts of the world, it would seem that Ireland is...
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New car registrations down 9% in November
New car registrations down New industry figures have revealed that new car registrations were down 9% to 687, for the month of November. This is happening as the industry prepares for sales of 181 cars in January. New cars registrations have slowed down rapidly by 10% to 131,200 compared to the same time in 2016. In contrast to that, used...
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Top 100 Cars Sold in Ireland 2016
Top 100 Cars Sold in 2016 Volkswagen Golf Was the number 1 new car model sold in Ireland in October 2017 Here is a a list of the top 100 new car models sold in Ireland in 2016 (CSO) Rank Car Number licensed 1 Hyundai Tucson 7,132 2 Volkswagen Golf 5,298 3 Ford Focus 4,969 4...
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Renault Ireland say used car imports are posing a ‘serious threat’ to the Irish car market
Used car imports pose a serious threat Irish car market Operating profits for Renault Ireland increased by 42% last year but they are saying that used car imports from the UK are posing a “serious threat” to the Irish market. Recently filed accounts for the distributor of Renault and Dacia cars in Ireland show a 42 per cent increase in...
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10% of cars assisted by Allianz last year had expired NCTs
According to Allianz, 10% of cars they assisted had expired NCT certificates. That means that more than one in ten (832) broken down cars assisted by Allianz last year were being driven with expired NCT certificates and 5 per cent of the vehicles had no valid certificate at all. In all, 7,042 cars received breakdown assistance from the insurance company...
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Dublin drivers are commuting on average almost one and a half hours a day or 14 days per year
Dublin drivers are commuting on average almost one and a half hours a day or 14 days per year According to a recent easytrip.ie survey, Dublin drivers are commuting in and out of the city for, on average, 86 minutes a day. When you take out holidays, this amounts to about 14 days per year spent commuting in the car...
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Massive surge in used cars on Irish roads for the month of June
New figures released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show there has been a massive surge in used cars being sold in Ireland since the beginning of the year. In the first six months of 2017, a total of 87,346 new private cars were licensed which was quite a sizable decrease of 10.4% compared with the same period last year....
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Second hand car imports for May spikes once again
In sharp contrast to new new cars taxed for the first time, May saw an increase in second-hand car imports into Ireland. While the total of 9,581 new cars in May was a drop of 5.4%, 7,732 second-hand cars were imported in the same period which was an increase of 40.9 per cent on May 2016. The number of new...