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If you could message the driver of any car, what would you say? If you could receive a message from your car, what would you want it to say? These are the questions being raised by Irish car tech start-up, CarAndUs.com....
Ciarán McMahon, Chairman and Managing Director of Ford Ireland, has been named Business Person of the Month by Newstalk’s Down to Business show.  Presenter of the Down to Business show, Bobby Kerr, said: “Myself and the other judges of the Business Person of the...
SEAT has announced details of finance offers available through Volkswagen Bank on the all new and eagerly anticipated SEAT Ateca, SEAT’s first ever SUV model.  3.9% PCP finance is available on the flagship SEAT Ateca XCELLENCE which is priced from €31,120. 3.9% PCP finance is also...
At a recent meeting of the International Van of the Year jury in Frankfurt, Germany, ten nominees have been announced as candidates for the 2017 International Van of the Year (IVOTY) award. "Just like 2014, there are many contenders for...
If recent rumours were anything to go by, work on a new road linking Cork and Limerick would start at Mitchelstown rather than using the intended route that would see Mallow and Buttevant bypassed.  The supposed logic of the Mitchelstown...
Fourteen examples from seven truck brands in the long-haul and distribution sectors contest for the fourteenth annual Fleet Transport Irish Truck of the Year Awards. The winner in each category will go forward for the final vote to win...
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles records a significant growth of 7.0 per cent in the first six months of the year with worldwide deliveries of urban delivery vans, transporters and pick-ups totalling 238,800. Particularly successful during this period was the T...
Fine Gael Cork Senator, Tim Lombard, has said that a lack of agreement over the use of eFlow tags on toll plazas operated by the Celtic Roads Group is leading to confusion and frustration for motorists. “eFlow has announced that...
Three months after its first outing, Citroën Racing’s 2017 World Rally Car has made its asphalt debut. On the bumpy roads of Aude in southern France, Kris Meeke and Stéphane Lefebvre learnt how the car behaves on this type...
For the 2016 running of Ireland's Best Truck Driver Competition, the Grand Final will be held during the Mondello Truck Show, on 3 & 4 September next. The third annual contest to seek the safest and most efficient truck...

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