Don’t Get This Season’s Killer Look
The RSA has issue a warning to Irish woman about how they wear their seat belts writes Geraldine Herbert Simply wearing a seat belt is not enough to ensure your safety according to a new report by the RSA A study of 300 women aged 17 to 34 found that more than a third of younger women admitted to misusing a seatbelt by wearing it under the arm and over half of those interviewed said that their friends wore the seatbelt under the arm....
Tips For Safer Roof Box Driving
With many family hitting the road next week for the Midterm using a roof box is a great way to gain some much needed space so we have some tips for travelling with an extra load writes Geraldine Herbert Tips for safer roof box driving: Check your car’s manual to make sure that the load, including the weight of the roof rack itself, doesn’t exceed the maximum. This limit tends to be quite low. Ensure that your load is...
Advertising your car for sale? Get a woman to take the pictures
Women take the most attractive and creative photographs of cars when advertising them for sale The findings come from appraising hundreds of images uploaded to the car trading website Wizzle, where consumers offer their car for sale directly to dealers. Experts say it reflects the growth of ‘Instagram culture’, which has seen the popular photographic social media platform dominated by creative images posted by women. Every car...
How to Equip Industrial Vehicle with Right Tyres and Increase Its Performance?
Choosing the right tyres will bring the maximum value to your business Whatever you operate – a farm or a factory – you soon realize the fact that your productivity, and, therefore, profitability, is highly dependable on industrial vehicles. Those big machines are often expected to operate 24 hours a day, and even a minimal downtime can cost you a lot of missed opportunities. In order to make your vehicle always ready for a big job,...
Why there’s no buzz about Electric Cars in Ireland
Electric cars are coming whether we like it or not so what needs to be done to encourage more sales asks Geraldine Herbert From an initial investment of €6.3 million in 2004 Elon Musk, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and CEO of Tesla, has managed not only to produce the fastest and most desirable electric car in the world but he has elevated the lowly milk float electric car to something both cool and commercially viable along...
17 Cars Worth Waiting For
From Alfa to Volvo, 2017 promises to be a bumper year and these are our seventeen most anticipated new models writes Geraldine Herbert Alfa Stelvio Alfa Romeo revealed their new Stelvio at the Los Angeles Motor Show. This is the Italian brand’s first premium crossover and launches their return to the US market. Named after the winding roads hidden in the Stelvio Pass, the highest mountain road in Italy, the Stelvio is the...