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  • Belt up, taxi drivers told

    Taxi drivers, who are currently exempt from wearing seatbelts, will soon have to belt up or face a fine and penalty points under new rules to be announced shortly by the Minister of Transport, Mr Brennan.

  • Drug-driving widespread

    A study into drug use by motorists has found that of 2,000 specimens analysed by the Medical Bureau of Road Safety, 15.7 per cent were positive for one or more drugs.

  • No NCT on private vans

    Private owners of small vans do not require either an National Car Test (NCT) certificate or a certificate of roadworthiness, required for light commercial vehicles, due to a loophole in the law.
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  • Recovery was in sight.

    FIAT HEAT: You could almost whistle the operatic theme tune. Set amid the rolling hills of northern Italy, it's a story of power, pomp, money, massive egos and internecine rivalry. It has a cast of thousands but at its heart is a dynasty struggling to hold on amid an orgy of bloodletting by its lieutenants.

  • Answering the call - AA to the rescue

    Calling out the AA is, for many drivers, a desperate measure. So says Hugh Oram , who spoke to one of the group's rescue truck drivers

  • Rolls- Royce boss quits

    Six years after the German takeover of that bastion of British motoring, Rolls-Royce, Karl-Heinz Kalbfell has flown in from Munich to take charge.

  • MDL to lose its Mazda franchise but no word on VW move as yet

    Ireland's leading car distributor, Motor Distributors Ltd, is to lose its Mazda franchise from July 2006 as part of a Europe-wide strategy by the Japanese firm to replace national distributors with wholly-owned subsidiaries.

  • Directors gain as car firm loses money

    The four owners of MG Rover made further gains from the former finance arm of Britain's last-remaining mass car maker, stoking controversy over the amounts they pay themselves.

  • A strategy half achieved

    The Minister of Transport, Seamus Brennan, is about to launch the most important road safety strategy this decade. Daniel Attwood gets an exclusive preview of the document which will shape the future of motoring in Ireland

  • Touring to top off 5-series boom

    BMW's new 5-series now accounts for 40 per cent of BMW's Irish business, according to Conrad Schmidt, managing director of BMW Ireland. "That's a record - we never had that sort of share here before."

  • New riches fuel Vietnam dreams of luxury car

    Young entrepreneurs are shrugging off socialism and paying big money for big wheels.

  • Buying a used Ford Focus

    SECOND-HAND SENSE:   Anyone who remembers the Ford Escort will appreciate just how radical Ford's "new edge" styling was when the Focus, the successor to the Escort, was unveiled in 1998.

  • PastImperfect

    From the archives of Bob Montgomery , motoring historian

  • RoadDesk

    Routes to avoid in the week ahead

  • MarqueTime ...

    ... . . . all you need to know about Lagonda

  • HelpDesk

    Michael McAleer answers your queries
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  • Volvo V50

    Drink, hard drugs and a conviction for weapons possession - what Volvo driver can't list these on his or her CV!
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  • A Tale of Two Ians

    A sunny Sunday evening in north Belfast. The Rev Ian Paisley Snr is pottering around his constituency office, occasionally sticking pins in a plastic doll that's spookily reminiscent of David Trimble. He's a happy man.
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