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  • Dempsey may legislate for write-off information

    MINISTER FOR Transport Noel Dempsey has said he will introduce new legislation forcing motor insurance companies to hand over all their records on car write-offs to stop them reappearing on the roads, if they refuse to do so voluntarily.

  • High failure rate in MoT

    Hard shoulder More than 20 per cent of cars in Britain fail their first MoT test - the British equivalent of the National Car Test (NCT). The result gives Britain one of the worst records in Europe, figures out today showed.
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  • Playing it safe

    Technicians prepare vehicles for a test crash. Volvo built its image around driver and passenger safety. Now they have to battle to keep the crown, but they won't give it up easily, writes Sarah Edmonds

  • Pure pedigree

    Second Hand Sense NOT MANY cars age as well as a Jaguar and few as well as an XK 8. It has been around for some 12 years, but put it beside one of the flashier sports cars around and its pedigree make its own statement.

  • The hard work behind an iconic motoring partnership

    Sir Henry Royce, right, one half of motoring's most famous partnership outside his villa in the south of France BOB MONGOMERY PAST IMPERFECT  HENRY ROYCE and Charles Rolls - the men who gave their names to arguably the most famous cars the world has ever seen. But who were they and how did they come to build "the best car in the world"?

  • The confusion of differing tax systems

    Send your queries to Motors Helpdesk, The Irish Times, Tara St, Dublin 2 or e-mail motorshelp@irish-times.ie MICHAEL McALEER HELP DESK Answering all your motoring queries

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  • Rallying reaches new heights

    Driving with Sebastien Loeb is a roller coaster of a scary, fantastic journey, writes Ben Oliver

  • From Russia with love: carmakers find an incredible demand for their luxury brands

    THE 100,000TH Land Rover Freelander 2 recently rolled off the company's production line at Halewood on Merseyside, northwest England. Its destination was the city of Surgut in the Siberian oil fields and the red 2.2-litre diesel is part of a flood of western European-built luxury cars heading for the Russian market.

  • Conquest coupé

    The C-Class sports coupé has seen big changes, but has Mercedes done enough to guarantee success with the new CLC? Kyle Fortune finds out

  • Global offerings

    The Cube Nissan's world event in Portugal gave Paddy Comyn the chance to browse their full catalogue of models . . . and see what the brand has in store for Irish buyers

  • D-day draws closer for the Infiniti range

    The wait may not be over, but the deadline is at least in sight. We have been waiting for Infiniti for a while in Europe and while our colleagues on mainland Europe have only to wait until October to get their hands on Nissan's Lexus equivalent, here in Ireland it will be the tail-end of 2009 before right-hand drive Infiniti models come to these shores.
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