First Drive: Renault Mégane Grand Coupé
Irish buyers love saloon cars, more than one in every five cars we bought this year was a saloon writes Geraldine Herbert What is it? Arriving in showrooms in time for 171 sales is the new Renault Mégane Grand Coupé, the saloon version of the five-door hatchback launched last year. Made in Turkey and sold in just 22 countries, it is aimed predominantly at the Middle East, China and other markets outside Europe where saloons in this...
Living with a Leaf – Week 1
In an effort to find out what it’s really like to live with an electric car I am going to be doing just that for the next four weeks– Living with a Leaf We’ve had our new Nissan Leaf for a week now, our new ecar home charge point has been installed and we’re ready to covert to the EV revolution. This year 371 electric cars have been sold in Ireland, a figure down almost 20 per cent on the year despite an increasing choice...
First Drive: Mazda3
In Ireland we may be shunning traditional hatchbacks and saloons in favour of SUVs and Crossovers but the Mazda3 remains a crucial car in the Japanese car makers line up writes Geraldine Herbert What is it? The life cycle of car models is certainly getting shorter. A newly enhanced Mazda3 has just been launched a mere two years after its previous major makeover First impressions of the new Mazda3? While the overall silhouette of the 3...
Eight things to know about BMW’s new 5-Series
Due here in the Spring BMW has revealed the all-new 5 Series writes Geraldine Herbert The new BMW 5 Series will hit Irish showrooms on February 11th, 2017 Prices start from €52,800. It may not look radically different from the outside but its now slightly longer, wider, and taller than the previous model. With a focus on driving dynamics the car gets a new suspension and sheds over a 100kgs. BMW’s ‘xDrive’ all-wheel drive system will...
BMW i3 (94 Ah)
Electric cars are considered by many to be too pricey, too impractical and too likely to run out of charge but is the new BMW i3 about to change that perception asks Geraldine Herbert What is it? The i3 was launched as part of BMW’s ‘Project i’ or electric range of cars and is available as an electric only version or with a supplementary petrol engine that extends the range. When it launched two and a half years...
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