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Loophole leaves inspectors powerless
FOURTEEN INSPECTORS hired to check that lorry and bus drivers are not spending too many hours behind the wheel are unable to start enforcing the law, because a legislative delay means they have no powers.
German court rules against Garda scanners
GERMANY'S FEDERAL Constitutional Court has ruled that laws used by police to automatically scan car number plates to search for stolen vehicles violate privacy rights.
RSA awards certs to new instructors
THE FIRST approved driving instructors have been awarded their certificates. From the end of this year only driving instructors who are registered as Approved Driving Instructors (ADI) with the Road Safety Authority (RSA) will be permitted to provide driving instruction for reward.
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Aston Martin gets some grunt
You can unleash your inner Bond with the Aston Martin DBS, if you've got the wallet to match. Paddy Comyn reports.Roadside motorway messages hit a sunny snag
A PILOT programme testing "real time" roadside messages on the M1 has run into a few snags.Collapsible car that parks itself
WOULDN'T IT be nice to drive a car into town without worrying about finding a parking space? Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have devised just such a vehicle, a futuristic "City Car" that could even drive itself.It's early reverse-opening doors for Opel's new Meriva
Hard Shoulder: Last week saw the introduction of Opel's "Flexdoor" system on the concept version of the Meriva.Building an empire from the wheels up
Creating the world's cheapest car, securing a takeover deal for two of the most iconic global car brands , and developing an air-powered vehicle have made Ratan Tata, the chairman of the Tata empire, a titan of the car industry. He speaks to Ben Oliver.Ratan Tata the man behind the Tata empire
Ratan Tata is not your typical titan of industry. He is softly-spoken, his faint American accent a legacy of his time studying architecture at Cornell University in the early 1960s. And he is shy, known to dislike public appearances.Why Formula One is dominated by the Finnish flag
LEWIS HAMILTON'S new team-mate, Heikki Kovalainen, could barely reach the pedals when he first drove a car in the fields and lanes around his house in the Finnish countryside.New E-Class due for Frankfurt show next year
Still over a year away, this is the all-new Mercedes E-Class, code-named W212, which is due at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show.Independent grading of all new cars
Michael McAleer , Motoring Editor, answers your questions.Pick of the bunch
Beauty will get you a long way, and the Mazda6 estate has it in spades, along with a lot of luggage space and a whole host of standard equipment, writes Shane O'DonoghueThe De Lorean DMC 12: what does it mean to you?
PastImperfect: Hollywood made a star out of the ill-fated De LoreanSubstance and price over style
SecondHandSense: THE PEOPLE who design and manufacture products discovered long ago that we often buy what we think we need as distinct from what we really need.Large scale crash in Dubai
Three people were killed and 277 injured in the United Arab Emirates yesterday when dozens of cars and buses collided in thick fog in what could be the country's biggest traffic accident.
Making sure our Ministers don't go off the rails all at once
The Bertie: a poorly-illuminated hole that gobbles up large wodges of money.
Seat finally brings some auto emotion to the Spanish marque
Seat's new Cupra is a beauty, writes Michael McAleer , Motoring editor, and it's the big breakthrough Seat needed in the hot-hatch arena.
Getting on track for testing
The pre-season shakedown in Jerez, Spain, allows Moto GP fans the chance to get the close to the riders and watch them tweak their bikes, writes Conor Twomey from the circuit.Bike News
Honda DN-01 hits Japan: Originally shown as a concept at the Tokyo Motor Show, the Honda's peculiar DN-01 will go on sale powered by a rubber-mounted, liquid- cooled, 60hp four-stroke 680cc V-twin which is mated to a new stepless automatic transmission.
