Car Selling Clichés
We reveal the advert terms that drive buyers crazy A car advert that claims ‘one careful lady owner’ could be turning potential buyers off the sale, according to a HPI survey to name the worst car advert clichés – careful lady owners came top, with ‘baby forces sale’ in second place. ‘Genuine reason for sale’ and ‘first to see will buy’ were joint third and fourth among phrases to avoid when wooing potential buyers. According...
Karen Tighe’s First Car
What was your first car ? My first car was a 1967 Morris MINI in Red. How did it change your life? I had it when I was 16 and had just dropped out of school. ( cars and guitars saved my life ) I drove it around Belfield (UCD) until I could manoevre and park really well. Then I drove it round Woodbine Nutley and Donnybrook until I got my provisional when I was 17. Eventually my Dad copped that I was driving a car with no brakes (!) he...
Jennifer Mullan returns to Mondello for Formula Ford
Jennifer Mullan returned to Mondello last week to compete in Formula Ford It seemed like an age since the Formula Ford Festival nine weeks ago but it was finally time to get going again last weekend in Mondello Park. Over the break I had a small operation on my knee so I guess it wasn’t so bad having such a gap to allow me to recover from that. Having really enjoyed my first outing in the car I was really looking forward getting back...
Vehicles are lifeline to Marymount Hospice
Marymount Hospice has taken delivery of two 142 Toyota Auris models from Cogans Carrigaline Cogans Carrigaline, Toyota Dealership is delighted to announce that they will be continuing with their support of Marymount Hospice as their chosen charity. To show their commitment to Marymount, Cogans Carrigaline has upgraded the two Auris models that they donated last year to the Community Palliative Care Team with two new 142 Toyota...
APMP Irish Car of the Year
The winner of the inaugural APMP Irish Car of the Year and APMP Van of the Year will be announced on October 6. The membership of the Association of Professional Motoring Press (APMP) is the most highly read and respected group of motoring journalists in Ireland. APMP membership includes columnists for The Independent and Independent.ie, The Irish Times, RTÉ, The Sunday World, The Sunday Times, The Herald, The Sunday Business Post and...
Cars to Convert the Electric Car Sceptics
Criticised for being too pricey, too impractical and too likely to run out can the BMW I3 and the Renault Zoe convert the electric car sceptics writes Geraldine Herbert When it comes to the environment I have always been a sceptical green, happy to recycle the odd bottle but think it’s just as likely that an ice age will wipe us out anyway so I have been a slow convert to the wonders of electric cars. When they first arrived...