7 Top Upgrades to Improve your car’s performance
Let’s face it — when you drive a brand new car off a dealership lot, it only comes stocked with just enough to offer a smooth and enjoyable ride. While your shiny new whip may possess leather interior, a sunroof, seat warmers, a backup camera, or other luxury features, it’s unlikely that your car will come loaded with high-quality performance upgrades. Especially if you’re a car guru who takes pride in the way your car looks and...
Podium finish for Alyx Coby in Athboy
Young Alyx Coby is going from strength to strength this year 13-year-old Alyx Coby, from Newbridge, Co. Kildare, was back on the grid in Athboy, Co. Meath at the weekend as the Motorsport Ireland Karting Championship made its way to the circuit for Round 3 of the series. With the tight and twisty layout of the track making overtaking challenging, achieving a good finish in the day’s two qualifying heats was going to be important....
How I crossed the world’s largest lake…by car
Driving a Mazda CX-5 across Lake Baikal in the depths of Siberia is a test of endurance for car and driver writes Geraldine Herbert From Irkutsk we drive to Listvyanka, a small town on the shores of Lake Baikal. The 60 kilometre road runs through a white forest frozen under thick snow and was laid in just two months in preparation for what should have been a landmark state visit to Russia by the US President Dwight D Eisenhower in...
Testing times for Learners on Ireland’s roads
Learning to drive can be a daunting experience writes Geraldine Herbert Ireland was basking in heat wave temperatures, Mel Gibson was striking a blow for Scottish independence in the box office and one of the biggest rivalries the music world has ever see was taking place in the charts as Blur and Oasis battled for the coveted number one sport. It was the summer of ‘95 and the summer I passed my driving test. Getting a licence has...
