By Philip Hedderman If it s good enough for Land Rover and FIAT then why not Skoda? Yes, we’re talki

The Alfa Romeo Giulietta is a sleek vehicle with a racing-inspired (but comfortable) interior, and a sophisticated exterior that will make neighbours and friends take notice. cheap travel sites Nominated for European Car of the Year 2011......
cheap travel sites Often, even for experienced car owners, the concept of car insurance gradually becomes little more than a term. Of course, in most areas it is illegal to drive without proper insurance, so this doesn t......
Europe's largest car rental company to open new branches in Navan and Galway Europcar, Europe's largest cheap travel sites car rental company, has announced the creation of 50 jobs and the opening of two new branches in Ireland.......
The exciting new Ford Focus ST has arrived in Ireland. The car builds on Ford's long heritage of performance models and carries the DNA of the company's renowned previous ST and RS cars. This latest......
The new Ford B-MAX, featuring a unique design and all new small car technology among the most advanced in Europe, has arrived in Ireland. With a maximum 5-star Euro NCAP safety rating, the B-MAX's Ford......
Now they have brought out the Clio and this is a return to something they have always done very well; small clever cars. The new Clio is cute, sexy, clever and all the other things the French car maker has always been good at; decent small cars.
In looks alone the Clio has the lot, the sexy front end and big headlights give way to the three door look and broad haunches cheap travel sites with a tidy rear end. By the way, there won t be a three door version which is why the design looks like a three door but it has five door if you get my drift.
Not only is the exterior design clever you can personalise it. You can put decals on and change the colour of some parts of the trim along with the wheels, I like the one with the target on the outside although I wouldn t pick the blue alloys I d take the decals cheap travel sites just as something different.
cheap travel sites On the inside things get really clever, there s a big touch screen in the middle which I m told will be standard from the mid range up. There are simple cheap travel sites menus in the touchscreen system which include navigation from Tom Tom, the one thing I noticed was the speed of the screen. Every touch brought up another menu very quickly, the sat nav responded very quickly, it was like prodding an iPad screen. The music system is equally cheap travel sites simple, cheap travel sites just plug whatever device you like into the USB port and off you go. I tested it with iPhone, Samsung and just a plain USB stick with music on it and it work just fine. Bass Reflex was also in my test car and that does what it sounds like, makes the bass better cheap travel sites so for all you Dub Step fans your car has arrived. It s like surround sound with added meat, I loved pumping out the tunes through the very beautiful hills of Tuscany.
Speaking of hills, our test route brought cheap travel sites me through not only breath taking countryside but also onto some of the best driving roads in this part of the world. Switchbacks, curves, straights, down hills, rolling cambers the lot. Now I was in a 90bhp 900cc petrol model so I wasn t going to set a rocket fast lap time but there was more than enough power to have some fun. The set up seems to be for handling, there s loads of grip for turn in and as long as you keep the revs up you ll grin as you come out of the corner too.
The new Clio is Renault back on form, it s a special little car that will become part of the family. It has great styling, all the right tweaks to the handling and when it comes to Ireland it ll have 3 engines, a tried and trusted 1.5Dci, 1.2 petrol and the brilliant 900cc version. The little car seems to do nothing wrong I just hope Renault can price is right because when you see the competition price the basic model, they are pricing a 3 door version and of course the Clio comes in 5 door only.
Bob Flavin is the owner and Editor of the web site has been a car nut since being a very young child, as a teenager he could tell what car was coming down the road from the shape of the headlights at night. After an extended stay in the motor trade he was asked to write a review of a new car for a newspaper, he liked it so much he started to review cars for various web sites.
Only for the engineering genius and determination of German car makers, the 4X4 SUV would be in serious decline in Europe if not extinct in Ireland. Thanks to extreme Green legalisation both here and......
by Catherine Culleton. School cheap travel sites is back. All around the country parents are dropping off and picking up their little darlings, causing mayhem outside the school gates as a result. Seven seater road hogs jostle......
By Philip Hedderman If it s good enough for Land Rover and FIAT then why not Skoda? Yes, we're talking about the designer model. Victoria Beckham put her signature on the new Evoque and being Italian, it could......
By Philip Hedderman To some folk commercials are the little messages that flash on screen during breaks in your favourite TV programme. To those in the motoring world they are basically vehicles which are designed to......