Third place finish for Alyx Coby
12 year old Alyx Coby on track for bigger things 12-year-old Alyx Coby, from Newbridge, Co. Kildare, secured her first podium finish of the season at Round 3 of the Motorsport Ireland Karting Championship in Athboy, Co. Meath last weekend. The sixth class student from Gaelscoil Chill Dara is competing in the IAME X30 Junior class, which caters for drivers aged 12 to 16 and Coby is the youngest driver on the grid. Coby got the day off...
Number of pre-registered cars rises
Cars sales are down but there are still growing numbers of nearly-new cars writes Geraldine Herbert Figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) this week confirms that car sales are down on last year. April Sales were down 9.6% on the same period last year and for January to April the decline is 10.9%. According to the CSO 74,180 new cars were registered by the end of April this year. But this falls nearly 10,000 short of the...
A Timeless Masterpiece – The Alfa 156
First introduced in 1997, the 156 is an Alfa Romeo worth remembering Divorce becomes legal, The English Patient is best picture and the Pokémon craze finally makes life worth living. Princess Diana dies; Mary McAleese is elected, Steve Jobs re-joins Apple and South Park makes its debut. With all this going on it would be easy to forget that 1997 was a vintage year to be in the market for a new car. Toyota’s first Avensis premiered...
Irish motorists could face hefty fines under new EU laws
Drivers will now be traced for traffic offences abroad writes Geraldine Herbert Irish motorists who speed while driving their own cars on the continent this summer will no longer be able to avoid fines under a new EU directive. What is changing about driving abroad? At the moment if you take your own car abroad, say to France on a camping holiday, and you commit a traffic offence such as speeding or breaking a red light and this is...
Beach Days
Sun shining, tunes blaring and a trip to the coast… all great fun until your car gets stuck in the sand! Follow our tips below to reduce your chances of needing a tow to safety! 1. If there’s a car park – use it! Especially if your car is 2 wheel drive… Eliminate the risk of getting stuck in sand by not driving on it! 2. If you do decide to drive onto the beach keep on the wet compacted sand. The soft fluffy...
The Strangest Driving Rules from Around the World
We outline the most far-fetched driving rules from around the world so buckle up; these ridiculously strange rules are set to drive you crazy! Red lights, Seat belts and Zebra Crossings… We all need to follow the rules of the road in order to keep ourselves and our fellow road users safe, but in some countries the driving rules are so wacky, it’s fair to say that their rules and regulations have gone one step too far. Saudi...
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