Car Reviews
Independent car reviews on Irish roads. Practical verdicts on value and real world economy to help you choose your next new car.
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Is Honda’s New Jazz Hybrid The Go-To Compact Car?
Road Tested By Hugh Maguire. This is the fourth generation of the Honda Jazz. Despite being a name that has been on the Honda model list for many years its not a name that immediately springs to mind when one thinks of compact cars. Peugeot’s 208, or Renault’s Clio, the Citroen C3 or Toyota’s Yaris
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Does The Hyundai IONIQ 9 Cut It As A Premium SUV?
Road tested by Hugh Maguire. The new IONIQ 9 is a full seven seat electric SUV that aims to bring Hyundai into the premium SUV segment. For decades the premium German brands were considered the benchmark when it came to quality and luxury and in the minds of many they remain so despite some models
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Is a self charging hybrid the real solution? Peugeot’s 408 may give us the answer.
Road Tested by Hugh Maguire. It is interesting that more and more of the cars I am road testing recently are petrol powered ICE (internal combustion engine) mild hybrids. Why? Because as we all know the EV market has not grown at the rate that was expected. Buyers have become cautious about EV’s for a
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Does Opel’s New Grandland Better Its Mainstream Rivals?
Road tested By Hugh Maguire. This is the second generation of the Opel Grandland and it is available in petrol mild hybrid as on test here and also as an EV. There are three trim levels namely SC, Elegance and GS and a choice of six colours. The Grandland was never known for being the
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Game Changing BMW iX3 Neue Klasse is Launched in Ireland.
whichnewcar.ie attended the launch of the first in a line of new BMW’s which they call “Neue Klasse” or new class in English. The first car in the Neue Klasse line up is the new iX3 EV and the design language we see here will follow in the next generation Neue Klasse BMW i3
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Is A Competitive Price Enough To Win Buyers To The New Citroen C3?
Road Tested By Hugh Maguire. The supermini class is a competitive one. Citroen’s new C3 is up against some pretty good rivals such as the Renault Clio, Toyota Yaris, Suzuki Swift and Mazda 2 to name a few. Often known for producing some rather quirky and as a result divisive cars has the new C3
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Can The Hyundai Ionic 9 Tempt The Image Conscious Buyer?
By Hugh Maguire. It was a pretty miserable wet day when the new Hyundai Ionic 9 was introduced to the Irish press in county Kildare. But the weather did not dampen our enthusiasm as we set off around the roads of county Kildare to get a brief introduction to the new Ionic 9. The new
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Has The New Alfa Romeo Junior Ibrida Got Any Real Alfa DNA?
Road Tested by Hugh Maguire Some of you may recall I road tested the EV version of the new Alfa Romeo Junior a few months ago and I quite liked the car. Now Alfa Romeo have launched their petrol self charging hybrid version of the Junior and its called the Ibrida which is Italian for
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MG ZS Hybrid, Does Everything Well And nothing Badly.
Road tested by Hugh Maguire. MG keep producing pretty good cars that buyers like. They are generally competitively priced, offer a reasonable amount of standard kit and come with decent 7-year warranties. So it is with their latest self charging hybrid the MG ZS. Before we continue I must say I believe the way forward
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New Honda HR-V e-hybrid, A Touch Of Class!
Road tested by Hugh Maguire. We are all very familiar with the popular Honda Civic but you may be surprised to learn that the HR-V is actually currently their best selling model here in Ireland. I was not a particular fan of the previous HR-V as I felt it just did not hit the mark.