It isn’t often that the head of a car company ‘apologises’ for yet another new vehicle being launched on the Irish market. The reason for the tongue-in-cheek apology – by Kia Ireland managing director Ronan Flood – was the frequency…
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First drive: MGS6
The flood of electric cars coming from China shows no sign of slowing – if anything it is picking up speed judging by the number of recent launches. The latest Chinese mid-size electric family car to arrive is the MGS6…
First drive: BYD Seal 6 Super Hybrid – Saloon & Touring
Against a steady stream of background bickering over the pros and cons of plug-ins, yet another PHEV joins the burgeoning ranks on the Irish market.
First drive: Citroen C5 Aircross and C3 Aircross
It isn’t every day you get two new model lines launched at the same time. That’s what Citroen has done with its new C5 Aircross SUV and the smaller, but deceptively roomy, C3 Aircross compact SUV. We can interpret that…
Tested: Leapmotor T03
I don’t know what expectations we as a society had about what kind of, and how many, electric cars there would be on Irish roads by this time in our ‘go EV’ drive. According to the government, their Climate Action…
Tested: Volvo EX90
Now and again, I get the chance of a second test week in a car. It’s a great way of sizing-up a model against rivals that I have driven in the intervening period. I always find something is better than…
First drive: Kia EV5
Kia’s long-awaited medium-sized SUV category, the EV5, has made it to these shores just in time for the best-selling months of next year. It is the first Kia made for what is called the C-SUV battery electric vehicle segment. As…
Tested: Hyundai Ioniq 9
Buying a big seven-seat large electric SUV says a lot about how well some people are doing. And more luck to them. Funding around €80,000 to purchase of the likes of the 7-seater Hyundai IONIQ 9 is no simple feat…
Tested: Leapmotor C10 REEV
One gets the impression that the flood of Chinese brands coming onto the Irish market can only go one way – and that’s up. Hitching onto well-established importers and distributors gives them a great base on which to launch and…
Tested: Polestar 3
Buying a new electric luxury car must be one of the great acts of faith in modern times. Maybe it’s not as great an act as was the case when doubts about EVs in general drove trade-in values into the…
