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  • Ryanair rental costs higher

    In four out of six airports surveyed by Motors, renting a car through Ryanair's website is significantly more costly than booking it directly with their car rental partners Hertz. In some cases the difference was up to EUR75 over a sample four day rental period.

  • Only 30 cases from Traffic Watch

    Only 25 per cent of calls to the Garda's Traffic Watch hotline resulted in formal caution during the scheme's two-year pilot period.
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  • Few prosecutions for Trafficwatch

    Only 25 per cent of calls to the Garda's Traffic Watch hotline resulted in formal caution during the scheme's two-year pilot period, it emerged last week.

  • Reality hammers online car auction

    Car auctions are wonderful, mysterious places full of sheepskin-coat clad traders and the odd lamb to the slaughter wide-eyed private buyer.

  • Taking the danger out of a flat

    A testing time at Mondello Park for Bridgestone's Run Flat tyres leaves Justin Hynes impressed by their usefulness and reliability

  • And then, the thrill is simply gone. . .

    Mondello's is a tricky old track. "Technical" is, I think, the correct term.

  • Get a move on, there . . .

    As local elections loom, motoring issues are slowly creeping up the agenda, thanks in part to threats from the Minister for Transport, Mr Brennan, that he will remove the power to set speed limits from local authorities if they are not increased or re-assessed.

  • Oil price rise amid hydrogen hurdles

    As petrol prices soar, - soon expected to reach €1 a litre - supermarket chain Tesco has said that despite the rise in crude oil prices it plans to maintain its low price policy.

  • Buying a used Mitsubishi Spacewagon

    SECOND-HAND SENSE: There was a time when the Mitsubishi Spacewagon was almost the car of choice for family motoring in this country. Although Renault had pioneered the seven-seater concept, Mitsubishi was the first manufacturer to offer a less expensive one.

  • It's miles faster here!

    Do you know your kph from mph? Most motorists have a rough idea that 80 kph is about 50 mph and 100 kph is 62 mph.

  • MarqueTime

    ... . . . all you need to know about Panoz sports car company.

  • PastImperfect

    From the archives of Bob Montgomery , motoring historian

  • HardShoulder

    It's a bit academic now but the High Court in Britain last week finally ruled that anyone riding the BMW C1 "motorbike with a roof" must wear a helmet. BMW has already stopped production of the C1.

  • RoadDesk

    Routes to avoid around the country during the week ahead...

  • HelpDesk

    Michael McAleer answers your queries...
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  • Nice try, but no cigar Tech spec

    The internal combustion engine, be it petrol or diesel fuelled, is not, despite over a century's development, the most efficient form of motive power. It relies on finite oil resources, it emits "noxious vapours" and, rather like democracy, it may not be perfect but it's the best we've got at present.

  • MY BIKE AND I

    Cornelius Cunningham, Builder...
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  • DOING DIESEL WITH OOMPH

    Road Test: Alfa Romeo GT: We pulled in at a Co Monaghan filling station in the alluring-looking Alfa GT coupé. A young lad of about 18 summers presented himself to do the honours but we knew his real interest was the car.
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  • Random thoughts of an aspirant adventurer

    A number of advertisements have started appearing in the British motoring press enticing amateur thrill-seekers to enter the London-Dakar rally next January. The rally has one proviso - entrants are allowed use only standard showroom production models, be they 1400cc hatchbacks, 4x4s or pre-1972 classics.
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