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MINI festival in Westport this weekend
A Mini festival has been planned for Westport, Co Mayo, over the next few days. The International Mini Meeting has picked Westport House for their 2017 event with a large gathering of classic Mini enthusiasts from the four corners of the world. For the second time in 20 years, the International Mini Meeting will be proudly hosted by the Irish...
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Audi A4 Used Car Review
Audi A4 (08 - 15) Used Car Review Audi is one of the most popular premium car brands in Ireland and the A4 is a very popular model within the range. This executive saloon is very spacious, comfortably fitting up to five. The storage space in the boot is more than adequate, in fact quite spacious and easy to load....
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Garda traffic plan in place for Guns n Roses concert in Slane
Garda traffic plan in place for Guns n Roses concert in Slane this weekend The Paradise City rockers will perform at Slane Castle on Saturday more than 25 years since their first gig there. As a result of the event, a major Garda traffic plan will go into operation this weekend in County Meath. The policing operation will facilitate the...
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Dubai Police Supercars
Police in Dubai have built up a large fleet of high-horsepower luxury sports cars and SUV's. In an oil-rich country where red Ferrari's growl at stoplights and convertible Rolls Royce's roam the city streets, high-powered squad cars such as Dubai’s fleet of supercar police vehicles really fit in nicely. If you ever find yourself being rear-ended in a fender-bender incident...
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Fleet managers to review reliance on diesel vehicles
Venson Automotive Solutions in the UK has urged fleet managers to prioritise a review of their current policies. Like many in the automotive industry, Venson believes that the end of diesel is nigh. Fleet decision-makers are being urged to plan for a future with fewer diesel vehicles. This advice comes hot on the heels of the UK Government's confirmation in...
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Toyota Land Cruiser reaches incredible speed of 370km/h
A 2,000 bhp Toyota Land Cruiser can reach the incredible speed of over 370km/h (230mph). Former NASCAR race car driver Carl Edwards hit the jaw-dropping speed on the Mojave runway. When one considers that a €2 million Bugatti Chironsupercar has just 1,500 hp you can begin to see how powerful the 2,000 hp SUV is. An SUV that can outrun...
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Cloned car scam duping eBay buyers
Organised criminals in the UK are using eBay to dupe car buyers into paying thousands of pounds for stolen vehicles. At least three eBay car scammers in the Greater Manchester area of England were selling cars that were made to look legitimate with the cloned details of vehicles on sale elsewhere. Criminal gangs clone cars to mask the identity of...
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Will 2017 be the Breakthrough Year For Flying Cars?
Will 2017 be the Breakthrough Year For Flying Cars? Scott Wharton who is Vice President & General Manager of the video camera group Logitech has weighed in on the subject of flying cars. Ten years before the iPhone came out he predicted that every device with a screen would have a camera within a decade but he was wrong, not...
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Man tries to steal bike from back of moving car.
A cyclist is captured trying to steal a racing bike in central London. Dashcam footage has captured the shocking moment a would-be thief tries to steal a bicycle from the back of a car - while it briefly stops at a red light. In the one-minute clip, dated 3:24pm on Sunday, a man wearing a hoodie is seen cycling behind...
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Supertanker, Super Jam
Supertanker Super Jam Global oil glut leaves supertankers in one of the world's biggest traffic jam SINGAPORE: It may be the world's biggest traffic jam! Due to a global glut in oil, ports are struggling to manage the number of supertankers waiting to offload and take on their oil supplies totalling some 200 million barrels of crude oil. So much...