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...
Anna NicAmhlaigh’s First Car ….
What was your first car and why did you buy it? I had booked my driving test for 19th January 1994. Now on hearing this my dad said to me “if you pass, I’ll give you the car”. Now the 19th of January was also my Dads birthday, so there was a lot of excitement. On the morning all the tests were cancelled, due to blizzards and testing only began a half hour before I was due to sit mine. I had a lesson with my...
Car Chat with Anna Daly
TV3’s Anna Daly combines her job as co host of the station’s Breakfast Show, Ireland AM with being a busy Mum of two little boys If you were a car what car would you be? Something reliable but fun, my own Seat Leon wouldn’t be a bad comparison! Do you have a favourite car gadget? Does the radio count? I love both talk and music radio – in fact I probably enjoy the radio as company more so than humans! Who taught you to...
New drivers will need N plates from August
New rules to place restrictions on ‘novice’ drivers come into effect from tomorrow, August 1st From tomorrow (August 1st) two new changes take place effecting newly qualified drivers, or novice drivers. One is the introduction of ‘N’ or Novice Plates and the other is the lowering of the penalty point threshold for learner and novice drivers. 1) From Friday when you pass your test and get a full...
Ruth Scott Drives the New Range Rover Evoque
Guest Reviewer, RTÉ 2FM’s Ruth Scott is utterly seduced by the Range Rover Evoque Oh god oh god oh god. I’ve only ever seen Range Rovers with the Queen in the back and now here I am test driving the 5 door automatic Range Rover Evoque. “That won’t fit in my car park space” I thought. Looks really big. Oh how I was deceived. This fitted my neat parking space with a little room front & back. Just as well; Can’t have the neighbours’...
