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Revenue set to investigate 75 car dealers
More than 70 unauthorised used-car dealers are facing a Revenue Commissioner audit as part of an investigation into the sector.
Uninsured drivers kill 20 each year
Uninsured drivers kill 20 people each year and leave a further
2,000 others seriously injured, according to a new estimate from
the Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (MIBI).
Car owners can undo carbon 'wheel print' online
Feeling bad about your carbon footprint, or your wheel print in this case? Now, as with many other things in life, there is a way of buying your way out of your guilt.
Communications failure leading to reuse of wrecks
Two of the State's largest insurers depend on salvage companies to notify the Department of Transport if cars insured by them have been written-off in crashes, according to a report that is now the subject of an official investigation.
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Could the EU bring city centres to a halt?
UrbanTransport: European driving policy The EU is banking on ever more drastic measures to take the gridlock off its city streets, writes Tim O'BrienEuropean cities: new traffic initiatives
The EU Green Paper on Transport lists a growing number of European cities which are restricting car use on environmental and health grounds. They include :Loeb and Grönholm prepare for battle
WorldRallyChampionship: Build-up to Irish date In his second article on the WRC, Bob Montgomery looks at the front runners - and the local driversModest launch of Peugeot trio
We get accustomed in the car industry to ambitious claims, pomp and usually a whole lot of nonsense, so it is refreshing to see Peugeot taking a realistic stance when it launched its new models early last week.Spoiling for a fight to the finish
FirstDrive: Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Mercedes-Benz's latest offering blows the competition out of the water, writes Kyle FortuneAudi finally offers a serious challenge to the 3-Series
FirstDrive: Audi A4 Audi has made an enormous leap forward with its latest A4, putting it in pole position to take on BMW's 3-Series, writes Motoring Editor Michael McAleerLavishly impersonal
SecondHandSense: Audi A8 There are few cars as lavishly equipped as Audi's A8. So much so that one has to ask what is the point of owning one in this country. It is a perfect car for a German autobahn but here, its speed capability (the 3.7, for instance, has a governed speed of about 240km/h) is meaningless and its green credentials border on the embarrassing.Seat mixes up the Altea
FirstDrive: Seat Altea Freetrack 4 A compact MPV mating with an SUV, with a sprinkling of hot hatch - it may sound like a disaster, but Kyle Fortune finds it all works rather wellHow petrol went from the tank to the roadside pump
PastImperfect: Petrol stations It seems that petrol stations are becoming rarer on the landscape as the value of the land on which they were built - particularly in urban locations - rises and they succumb to re-development. Petrol stations have been a part of the landscape now for so long that it's hard to imagine what it was like before them. To find the answer, we have to go back to that famous piece of automotive legislation, the Locomotives on the Highway Act 1896.HardShoulder
LEXUS HEAD DEFECTS TO FORD: The US head of Toyota's luxury Lexus brand has left the company for Ford in the third high-level defection from the Japanese carmaker to a Detroit rival in two months.HelpDesk
Michael McAleer answers your questions
Musical interludes
We Irish love nothing better than a good moan about Our Great Leaders. Still, it could be worse. We could all live in Iran.
The icon returns
BMW's M3 has been among the top 10 performance cars since its inception in 1986, but the latest generation coupé could beat them all
The Shiver lives up to its acclaim
BikeTest - Aprilia SL 750 Shiver: Conor Twomey couldn't resist the offer of testing the Aprilia Shiver, and judged it a thing of beauty and powerful tooMotorbikeNews
HONDA'S NEW 2008 MODELS FOR EUROPE: The three new models, the CBR 1000 RR, the XL 700V Transalp and the CBF 600 S were on display at last month's Paris International Motorcycle Show.
