Motoring
Road Test: Volkswagen Scirocco
With the Scirocco 34 coupé, Volkswagen has given an old name a facelift in a
stylish compact car which offers a sporting drive
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Inside Motoring
New scheme urges motorists to check tyres more regularly
Monday, 13 October 2008
Motorists across Northern Ireland are being urged to check their tyres more
regularly in an effort to cut down on the number of accidents in the
province.
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General Motors and Ford threaten merger
Monday, 13 October 2008
The biggest companies in the US car industry, brought to the edge of
bankruptcy by the economic turmoil, are considering extraordinary new plans
to save themselves, including mergers that could throw tens of thousands of
workers out of their jobs.
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Extra tickets released for Dublin Top Gear
Monday, 13 October 2008
There is some good news for motor-mad fans of hit BBC show Top Gear.
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Jaguar XF 2.7 litre V6 diesel
Saturday, 11 October 2008
Few car-makers have a history as distinguished as that of Jaguar, but for
recent custodians of the brand that glorious past has been a burden rather
than an asset. Faced with the impossibility of bettering the perfect curves
of the Mark 2 and XJ saloons from the 1960s, for example, Jaguar timidly
chose, with the fuddy-duddy mid-sized S-Type and compact X-Type, simply to
copy them – although not very successfully, as the underlying proportions of
the donor cars provided by Jaguar's then parent company, Ford, didn't
conform to the "long, low and wide" look traditionally associated
with Jags.
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Men's criticism sends women drivers mad
Thursday, 18 September 2008
Motorists get driven mad by pestering partners -- and it's the men who are
more annoying to women, a new survey has found.
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Top Gear's Dublin show sells out in 90 minutes
Friday, 12 September 2008
Overwhelming demand to see motormouth journalist Jeremy Clarkson and the rest
of his 'Top Gear' crew had organisers frantically trying to add an 11th show
to their RDS run next month after the majority of tickets were snapped up
within minutes of going on sale.
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The Verdict: Volkswagen Passat CC 1.8
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
As automotive brands go, Volkswagen is one of the best. It stands for
reliability and German quality but at the same time it represents value for
money and accessibility – nobody is secretly going to ask themselves whether
they are grand enough to own a VW.
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Car Choice: Head for the hills
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
A keen walker needs a roomy, fast, reliable, non gas-guzzling 4x4 to allow him
and his friends to pursue their interest. Oh, and a good-looking model would
be nice
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Car Choice: Why buy when a lease can deliver more flash for your cash?
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Liam McGarry, 31, is a self-employed consultant based in Belfast. He drives
more than 1,000 miles a month in his 1998 Renault Clio 1.2 Grande, and that
amount is set to increase.
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The Verdict: Citroën Berlingo Multispace 1.6
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Citroën's Berlingo, introduced in 1996, has been a hit – but not perhaps in
quite the way the company expected.
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Road Test: Ford Fiesta 1.6 Ti-VCT
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
The paintwork options on the Verve, Ford's concept car for 2007, were such a
hit they've retained the look for the funky new Fiesta
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Cheaper insurance if you don’t drive at weekend
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
An Irish insurance company is promising discounts of up to 40% for young
drivers that commit to not driving on Friday and Saturday evenings, the
worst times for crashes involving young people
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BBC's Top Gear coming to Dublin
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
They drew the line at shelling it, but authorities yesterday granted
permission to three middle-aged men with bad hair to close one of the most
iconic bridges in the world to traffic so they could travel across it,
perched on an army tank.
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Road test: It's a flat ride when the bumps are smoothed out
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
This is a road test with a difference. The subject is the Citroën C5 Tourer,
the estate car version of the new C5 range, and touring is what I have done
with it.
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Fiat 500 Abarth
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
There's something hugely appealing about the unexpectedly fast, small car.
It's the combination of cute looks and the promise of major amusement from
cheeky, giant-killing performance.
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The Verdict: Chevrolet Epica
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
One of the big motoring themes of the past couple of years has been the
progress being made by Korean car manufacturers in developing products to
match the market-leading models from Europe and Japan.
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Tesla Roadster: Look out for this 125mph electric car (because you won't hear it)
Friday, 22 August 2008
It looks as stylish as a Lotus, can outpace a Porsche 911 and is coveted by
Hollywood A-listers such as Brad Pitt and George Clooney. But unlike the
average super car, the Tesla Roadster is electric.
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Car Choice: You can combine space and economy, especially with the right tyre pressure
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Andy is starting a new job that requires him to spend long hours on the road.
He also needs a fair amount of space. Andy is concerned about economy and he
does not want his car to produce needless emissions. With a budget of £4,000
Andy knows that the car will have to be around five or more years old, and
worries that it may not be reliable.
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Same again from VW
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
VW has taken a leaf from the 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' school for its
latest Golf. Playing spot the difference with its former models will be
difficult, but the car's sober fans won't be complaining
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Porsche 911 Carrera
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Time was when a fuel consumption of 30mpg was thought pretty good. That was
when 70 profile tyres were the height of sportiness and the five-speed
gearbox was starting to register on the radar of drivers who might not
necessarily own a pair of stringback driving gloves.
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- 17:57 Ministers warn of tough Budget
- 17:31 Almost 50 applications made for repossession of homes and land
- 17:28 Fast-track European approval of bank aid schemes promised
- 17:24 Chief exec Wells sacked by IFA
- 15:54 EBS stops offering tracker mortgages
- 15:36 Armstrong to compete in Giro d'Italia
Top stories from Monday, 13.10.08
- 17:24 Chief exec Wells sacked by IFA
- 15:36 Armstrong to compete in Giro d'Italia
- 15:14 Kinnear sees Newcastle confidence growing
- 14:32 Northern Ireland call-up for Gault
- 14:28 Italy's FA bans fans from travelling to away games
Top stories from Monday, 13.10.08
- 17:57 Ministers warn of tough Budget
- 17:31 Almost 50 applications made for repossession of homes and land
- 15:54 EBS stops offering tracker mortgages
- 15:23 Teachers at Co. Down school strike over pupil assault
- 13:51 Italian police continue search for missing Irish woman
Top stories from Monday, 13.10.08
- 17:28 Fast-track European approval of bank aid schemes promised
- 15:33 EU condemns Mugabe stance on Zimbabwe ministries
- 11:32 Obama leading by 10 points in latest US poll
- 11:26 Britain announces £37bn bailout for three banks
- 09:27 Thai PM refuses to resign after street clashes
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- Wife of footballer killed in car crash
- IRA funds worth up to €200m put at risk in United States
- Sacked teacher moves in with teenage former pupil
- Republic faces ‘tough’ budget calls, warns Cowen
- Eoghan stuns X-Factor judges with John Lennon hit
- Discovery of the decade? Injection 'could cure Alzheimer's in minutes'
- Family beat smoker to death
- Top Irish developers see asset values dive two-thirds
- Strike after pupil attacks teacher
- Fury over "Punch Neil Lennon" game
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- IRA funds worth up to €200m put at risk in United States
- Eamonn McCann: What if Mormons are right and Catholics and Protestants wrong?
- Monkey works as waiter in Japanese restaurant
- Discovery of the decade? Injection 'could cure Alzheimer's in minutes'
- Top Irish developers see asset values dive two-thirds
- Sacked teacher moves in with teenage former pupil
- Bosses mimic behaviour of monkeys
- QE2 in Belfast
- Republic faces ‘tough’ budget calls, warns Cowen
- Ill passenger forces Belfast jet to divert
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- Eamonn McCann: What if Mormons are right and Catholics and Protestants wrong?
- Sarah Palin is a joke, says Rushdie
- IRA funds worth up to €200m put at risk in United States
- Why haven’t the arguments of these atheists really evolved?
- ‘Pay cut’ as teachers refuse to teach bully
- Strike after pupil attacks teacher
- Republic faces ‘tough’ budget calls, warns Cowen
- Obama leading by 10 points in latest US poll
- Fury over "Punch Neil Lennon" game
- Eoghan stuns X-Factor judges with John Lennon hit
Columnist Comments
• Robert Fisk: 'Collateral damage' or targeted killing, the effect is much the same
All kinds of horrors flop on to my Beirut doormat. There's the mobile phone bill, a slew of blood-soaked local Lebanese newspapers – "Saleh Aridi's blood consolidates [Druze] reconciliation", was among the goriest of the past few days – and then there are files from the dark memory lane through which all Middle East history has to pass.
• Steven Beacom: We must still build team around Healy
One point from six. That’s Northern Ireland’s tally in the World Cup qualifying campaign so far. Not too healthy, is it?
• Ed Curran: The travesty of Toulouse
Patrick Bamford was just another face in the crowd packed into Belfast's Ravenhill rugby ground on Saturday for the European Heineken Cup match. He was much more than that 21 months ago at another game in the south-west France city of Toulouse.
• Pol O Muiri: Glenn’s tale that should touch us all
They say that the victors write the history. However, I doubt that I will ever read anything by the DUP's born again Ulster-Scotch poets or Sinn Féin's radical scribes and Pharisees that will ever match writer Glenn Patterson's Once Upon A Hill: Love in Troubled Times (Bloomsbury).
• Hamish McRae: So will anything shift the economic gloom?
It is a classic financial crash. Another week of mayhem in the markets, another week of despair among bankers, another week of rising concern for the rest of us. The world's monetary powers sought to reassert their authority last week by cutting interest rates, while individual governments, in particular our own one, continued to unwrap national rescue packages. Their aim was to restore confidence – and they failed.
• Laurence White: Will we have any cash left after world market crash?
The financial turmoil currently gripping the world is of such a magnitude that it is over-shadowing what until a couple of months ago was the biggest story in town — the race for the White House. Now Barack Obama and John McCain find themselves a side-show.
• Eamonn MCann: Was it fair to jail Shahra Marsh but let greedy bankers go free?
Nobody is immune from this banking crisis. Not Shahra Marsh. Not Mother Teresa.
Odd Box
- Monkey works as waiter
- Ban for viewing sci-fi film while driving truck
- Man punches shark to save pet dog
- Politician and pilot spot UFO in Meath
- Dog rescues owner by calling police
- Police use Taser on nude man walking his dog
- Burglar attacks with sausage and spices
- Man with 86 wives vows to marry more
- Outback mayor urges 'ugly' women to move
- Spanish monarch replaced by Homer Simpson
- Pooh blocks drains in Ballymoney
- Britain's smallest burglar: It's a tall man's world
- Couple fined over 'sex games' at war memorial
- Nevada brothel entices visitors with free petrol
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