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The latest motoring news and car reviews from the Irish Farmers Journal

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Land Cruiser highlight despite motoring lower profile at Ploughing 2024

The motor industry exhibits for Ploughing 2024 are significantly scaled down compared with previous years.

11 September 2024
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Peugeot’s E-3008 is making EV driving the option

Peugeot’s new E-3008 model gives fresh impetus to the French brand, with an SUV-type car that’s strong to look at and solid to drive.

28 August 2024
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Smart moves to battery electric power

The Mercedes-Benz, Smart car sub-brand is now electric powered and no longer the micro car of the past, as the Smart #1 and Smart #3 have grown into a bigger segment of the market.

17 July 2024
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For Mercedes-Benz economy is more than the brand

The latest Mercedes-Benz hybrid cars deliver where it counts, in terms of economy and that converts to low running costs.

3 July 2024
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Can the Opel Grandland PHEV be as practical as it is comfortable?

Opel’s Grandland has solid credentials that reflect its German heritage in what is a spacious mid-range SUV but can it be a practical option as a family car?

19 June 2024
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Ford revamps for an attractive Transit Custom

Ford’s best-selling van range the Transit Custom has been upgraded with a new design along with engine power performance changes and some improved performance features.

5 June 2024
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BYD broadens electric car range

Ireland’s newest all-electric car brand, the Chinese-built BYD range, has two new models and is making impressive inroads into the market, based on range and value. Michael Moroney reports.

22 May 2024
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Renault blends new hybrid system smoothly in Arkana refresh

Four years after Renault first launched the Arkana SUV, it has refreshed the mid-size model and given it a full hybrid drive treatment with ambitions to deliver diesel-like economy.

8 May 2024
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Toyota enters the BEV market with competitive bZ4X

Toyota’s first full battery electric car (BEV), called the bZ4X, has a name that’s either easy to forget or hard to remember.

24 April 2024
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