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Our top picks from the current new car market

From cars with conventional engines to the latest electric models, here are our top picks from an increasingly changing new car market. EV prices include grants.
Motors • 03 Jan 23

Why Toyota maintains slow approach to electric cars

As a mass-market producer of cars and whose profit margins are driven by volume, Toyota has been an outlier on the car industry's strategy to go fully-electric.
Motors • 06 Dec 22

Young people drive trend to shift away from cars

A new study this week indicates that young people in Ireland are moving away from their parents' attachment to cars. And a significant number of them say they don't ever intend to own a car.
Motors • 30 Nov 22

The end of the road for Toyota's full-hybrid Prius

It's 30 years since Toyota previewed perhaps its most innovative car ever at the Toyota Motor Show. It later became the Prius - the world's first mass-produced hybrid car - and 5 million units have been sold around the world. Now it's no more. But why ?
Motors • 18 Nov 22

Volkswagen's ID Buzz named Irish Car of the Year

VW's nod to retro motoring - the ID Buzz - is all-electric and has been named Irish Car of the Year by the Motoring Media Association of Ireland.
Motors • 14 Nov 22

Reviewed: Lexus NX plug-in hybrid SUV

Hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars may not be the longer term preferred option but they do have an interim role.
Motors • 10 Nov 22

Reviewed: Kia Niro - one of the best electric family cars yet

Kia's new Niro EV may not have greatly improved on range but its battery efficiency is very impressive. It also has some other very strong selling points.
Motors • 27 Oct 22

Mercedes launches SUV version of its E-Class.

This is the SUV version of the electric Mercedes E-Class, which will be on sale here early next year. It's the eighth EV from Mercedes, which now has a vastly increased model range and a battery EV in almost every market segment.
Motors • 22 Oct 22

Mazda moves to take on bigger Volvo and Audi SUV's

Mazda may be only seven or eight years away from fully electric, or at least part-electric vehicles, but the relatively small Japanese company appears determined to be a maverick in the meantime.
Motors • 13 Oct 22

Nissan's interim alternative to full electric transition.

With the revised Qashqai, Nissan is offering a hybrid alternative to those not quite ready to go fully electric.
Motors • 03 Oct 22
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