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The latest news from Ireland's motor industry — new models, regulations, and market trends.
The EV conversation in Ireland has been the same one for years. Great in theory. Brutal in practice. Too expensive, not enough chargers, and sure where would you plug it in if you live in a terrace in Clondalkin? That...
You're sitting in a Porsche Cayenne on the M50, and the car is talking to you. Not the old "turn left in 300 metres" routine. Something more like a conversation. That's what Porsche's updated PCM (Porsche...
Your renewal letter arrives. The car is new, cheap, and electric. The quote is anything but. Welcome to the gap between what Chinese EVs cost to buy and what Irish insurers think they cost to cover. Geely and Leapmotor...
You're standing in a forecourt in Athlone, staring at a price board that's gone up twice since Christmas, and you're wondering if you bought the wrong car. It's a question worth asking properly. Not with vibes, not with...
You reach for the fan speed. You get a sub-menu. You reach for the sub-menu. The car drifts. Sound familiar? That is not a minor inconvenience. That is a design failure dressed up as innovation. And after years of...
You're standing in a Lidl car park in Castlebar with three bags of shopping, a half-charged battery, and 80km of Connacht roads between you and home. Which of these three small EVs do you actually want to be sitting in?...
An Irish teenager wins a British motorsport title at 18 and the coverage amounts to a few social posts and a regional mention. Meanwhile, the same weekend's GAA scores got three segments on the six o'clock news. That...
An 18-year-old Irish driver just beat seasoned competitors on British soil to win a major UK rallycross title. Nobody handed it to her. She went over, put in the laps, and took it. Leah McManus didn't just win a race....
A brand-new showroom opening might not feel like news. Until you realise you've been driving three hours to a dealer for a test drive on a car you're not even sure you want. That's the quiet frustration behind this wave...
Walk into any Irish dealership right now and you'll be buried in hybrid SUVs before you've had time to refuse the coffee. Every brand has one. Some of them are genuinely good. Some are just diesel alternatives with a...
The Renault 5 E-Tech turned up at Irish dealerships wearing a familiar face and an unchanged price tag. For a market that's been waiting for an affordable electric car that doesn't feel like a compromise, that's either...
Your man at work who bought a Tesla Model Y in 2022 has been insufferable ever since. Fair enough, there wasn't much to argue with. Now there is. The mid-size electric SUV market is waking up. New names, sharper prices,...
You've just landed at Dublin Airport after a six-hour delay, your bag is the last one off the belt, and the car rental queue stretches back to somewhere around Gate 14. Sound familiar? That queue might not exist in five...
Your mate bought a brand new Toyota Corolla last year. Lovely car. Then the insurance renewal landed and he nearly choked on his coffee. The sticker price is only the beginning. In Ireland, what you pay to drive a car...
Your neighbour just got a shiny new budget EV. Your insurance renewal arrived and made you want to lie down on the floor. And there's a three-year-old Seat Ibiza on the forecourt for €14,500 giving you serious eyes. You...
Your fleet manager just forwarded the latest fuel spend report. Nobody said anything out loud, but the silence in the room said enough. Fuel costs for Irish businesses running commercial fleets have become one of the...
For years, "affordable EV" in Ireland meant "affordable if you had a spare €40k lying around." The Hyundai Ioniq 3 changes that sentence. Maybe. The €28,000 price tag is the number everyone's been...
Your neighbour just paid €55,000 for an electric car and spent last Tuesday morning at a broken fast charger in Portlaoise, in the rain, for forty minutes. You watched this from the kitchen window of your mind and...
Your neighbour still can't charge at home. Your brother-in-law does 400km a week between Castlebar and Dublin. And the charging network, for all the promises, still has days where it feels like a suggestion rather than...
Your shiny new Renault comes with an AI assistant that knows your favourite radio station, warns you about speed cameras, and probably has opinions about your cornering. What it's also doing, quietly, is generating...
Porsche has filed a patent for a modular powertrain system that doesn't pick a side. Petrol, hybrid, full electric: the same platform can run on any of them, swapped out depending on market, regulation, or what the...
Walk into a dealership in Dublin or Cork right now and you'll see something that would have seemed mad five years ago: Chinese-built cars sitting alongside European metal, priced to make you do a double-take. The names...
The summer sale banners are up. The radio ads are fierce. Your inbox is full of "limited time offers" that have apparently been limited since January. Welcome to car buying season in Ireland, where everything...
The salesperson hands you a brochure with a smiling family loading a golden retriever into the boot. Nowhere in that brochure does it mention what your insurance renewal will look like in year two. SUVs are the dominant...
The forecourt is still an unpleasant place to stop. Petrol sitting stubbornly above two euro a litre, diesel not much better, and your wallet quietly weeping into the cupholder. So you're looking at hybrids. Sensible of...
Your man at the Porsche dealership on the Naas Road has stopped taking orders for a petrol Macan. Not because they sold out. Because there isn't one anymore. The second-generation Macan is electric only. Full stop. No...
The showroom floor looks different this year. Genuinely different, not just a new colour option on last year's model. 2026 has brought a proper wave of electric cars to Irish forecourts, and for once the choice is wide...
You've found a 2017 Volkswagen Golf with 78,000km on the clock, a tidy interior, and a price that seems almost reasonable. The seller is friendly. The car starts first time. Your gut says yes. Your gut has been wrong...
Three cars, one budget, zero patience for marketing waffle. The Fiat Grande Panda, Kia Seltos, and Citroën C3 Aircross are all landing on Irish forecourts in 2026 with the same pitch: practical family SUV, sensible...
Your motor tax renewal lands in the post and the number on it makes no sense. Your neighbour pays half what you pay for a car that looks almost identical. Sound familiar? There's a logic to it, even if the government...
The showroom smell is intoxicating. The brochure is gorgeous. Then you get home, check the insurance quote, and feel your soul leave your body. That's the new car experience for most Irish buyers in 2025. So when three...