How to check and maintain your car’s oil level
Maintaining your car’s oil level is essential to ensuring the condition of your vehicle and your safety while driving writes Geraldine Herbert Failure to maintain the correct oil level and carry out the necessary oil/filter changes can result in extensive and costly engine damage. Checking the level of the oil in your engine is a very important safety check that you can do easily yourself. Driving with a level that’s too low or two...
Beat The Boredom Of A Long Journey With These Top Tips
Road trips are great. They are the perfect way to get away without having the stress of navigating airports, train stations, or ferry docks. Sometimes it’s nice to get in the car and drive – not truly knowing where you’re going. Constantly having to drive long journeys takes the fun away from it all. Whether it’s for work or to visit family, the thought of having to be in the car for hours is enough to drive...
Seven changes the government are considering for Budget 2021
A number of changes to the Tax system are being considered as options for Budget 2021 writes Geraldine Herbert The Department of Finance has published the Budget 2021 Tax Strategy Group Papers offering some insights into possible changes to the Motor tax system in the next budget VRT Bands – It is suggested that a new 7% VRT tax band would be introduced for vehicles with emissions of 50g/km of below and a 9% rate for those that fall...
KIA Xceed PHEV
Comfortable, stylish and green, there is lots to like about the Kia XCeed PHEV writes Geraldine Herbert What is it? The Ceed has long been one of the most versatile cars in the Kia range. Starting life as a hatchback over time it has morphed into an estate, the Proceed coupé, a crossover in the form of the Xceed and in May of this year a plug-in hybrid version was launched. Who is it aimed at? Siting between the Ceed Hatchback and the...
Strong performance by Alyx Coby at IAME France Ladies Cup
16-year-old Alyx Coby, from Newbridge, Co. Kildare travelled to Circuit Jean Brun in Varennes-sur-Allier, France last weekend to compete in the IAME France Ladies Cup. The event, organised as a one-off race during the second round of the French National Karting Championship, featured an all-female grid of twenty-one drivers between the ages of 14 and 18. Now in its second year, the event draws the top female drivers from across...
