First Drive: Ford Mustang 5.0 litre V8
Does Ford’s long-awaited muscle car live up to expectations asks Geraldine Herbert? What is it? This is Ford’s first right-hand drive Mustang for half a century, a car that is a motoring icon unlike any other. First impressions of the new Ford Mustang? The Mustang will taunt you from your driveway, it will whisper incessantly and beg you to drive it. It is simply stunning to look at. There is a choice between a 2.3-litre...
Car Chat with Karen Koster
We talk cars, Taylor Swift and speed with TV3 presenter, Ford Ambassador and first time mum Karen Koster Who taught you to drive? An instructor. I knew it was the only way to avoid a family feud. So for my 17th birthday, my parents bought me a course of lessons and I was raring to go! How has been a parent changed the way you think about a car? It’s changed everything! My last car was a Peugeot 207 Cabriolet which I adored when I...
Ford Mustang: We chart its 51-year history
The wait is over as the Ford Mustang arrives in Irish Showrooms we chart its 51-year history Ford executives watched gleefully as the public enthusiastically checked out the new Ford Mustang at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York. Based on the regular, humdrum Falcon but clothed in a modern, handsome body and with a raft of options including cruise-o-matic transmission, power disc brakes, handling packs, air conditioning and a choice of...
Car Chat with Kelly Proper
We talk muscle cars, gadgets and more with Record-breaking Irish athlete, Kelly Proper If you were a car what car would you be? The new 2015 Ford Mustang – I just love the classic Mustang look – the new model will be on sale in Ireland for the first time from November, I can’t wait to try it out! What do you drive and what does it say about you? I drive a Ford Focus Zetec S and with its 150PS engine, it is like me, made for...
Testing Times for Ford’s C-Max in Lommel, Belgium
Ford’s new C Max is tested to the limit at the Lommel Testing circuit in Belgium writes Suzanne Keane Since 1965 Ford have been operating a test track just an hour north of Brussels in order to rigorously test their vehicles before they hit our roads. This track is more than 80km long and consists of various road types designed to mirror road conditions around the world and test their cars in extreme conditions. Wheelsforwomen.ie were...
