Second place and fastest lap for 13 year old Alyx Coby
Fastest lap seals second place for Alyx Coby at Whiteriver Park 13-year-old Alyx Coby, from Newbridge, Co. Kildare, was on track at the weekend as the Irish Karting Club hosted Round 7 of the Motorsport Ireland Karting Championship at Whiteriver Park in Co. Louth. Coby is competing in the IAME X30 Junior class in the Championship, which caters for drivers aged 11-15. The first-year student from Gael-Choláiste Chill Dara got the day...
Nissan Micra 0.9 PET 5dr SVE
The new Micra is worlds apart from the car it replaces writes Geraldine Herbert What is it? Nissan’s Micra has been a popular choice with Irish drivers for over three decades but despite its pint-sized practicality, affordability and legendary reliability the Micra has never been a car destined to improve your street cred, until now that was. Styling? Long gone are the cute lines, the curiously high-mounted headlights and cheeky...
Eight things to know about the 2018 BMW M5
BMW has unveiled their most powerful and fastest M5 ever writes Geraldine Herbert 1) Muscular and powerful the new BMW M5 goes from a standstill to 100 km/h in a mere 3.4 seconds thanks to 600-horsepower. 2) It has an 8-speed transmission, super powerful brakes, and comes with specially designed tyres. 3) Its a slightly more beefier version of the regular 5 series particularly from the front where the...
Off-Road Declarations – Reminder
New measures were introduced in 2013 to clamp down on Motor Tax evasion and drivers now have to declare cars as ‘off the road ’ before the motor tax runs out writes Suzanne Keane. Up to July 2013 if you weren’t using a car that wasn’t taxed all you needed to do when you eventually wanted to tax it again was fill in an RF100 form, get it stamped at your local garda station and take it to the tax office with your hard earned...
Car makers offer cash incentive to trade in older diesels
Car makers are offering deals and incentives to lure drivers of older diesel models to ditch their cars in favour of cleaner alternatives writes Geraldine Herbert So who is offering incentives? BMW and Mercedes have announced schemes and it is likely other car makers will do the same over the next few weeks. What is on offer? Mercedes is offering owners of Euro 1 to Euro 4 emissions-standard diesels, irrespective of...
