Michael Rochford
17 results

Car sales decline slows in July but trade looks anxiously to 2018
- Motors
- August 1, 2017, 13:19
Sales of new cars fell once again in July, but the arrival of the new 172 registration plate did at least arrest the slide seen so far this year by a (...)

Car sales fall again in June as imports continue to rise
- Transport & Tourism
- July 3, 2017, 14:46
The car trade in Ireland will be hoping for a significant boost from the July registration plate change, as sales of new models dipped again in June. (...)

Fall in car sales disguised by heavy discounts and pre-registering
- Motors
- April 3, 2017, 17:06
The true state of the Irish car market is being disguised by enormous numbers of last-day registrations in the first three months of the year as both (...)

Opel fires raise calls for national vehicle recall database
- Motors
- December 9, 2016, 08:37
There are calls for the establishment of a national vehicle database on recalls, both here and in the UK, following a spate of fires involving Opel a(...)

Car buyers now making savings on imports priced from £5,000 upwards
- Motors
- October 15, 2016, 07:03
With the plummeting value of Sterling the value of shopping for a second hand car in the UK is increasingly appealing to motorists in the Republic. In(...)

Why hasn’t Brexit opened the floodgates for cheap used car imports?
- Motors
- August 9, 2016, 09:38
The number of used cars being imported into Ireland has spiked upwards in July, but possibly not to the extent which had been predicted prior to the U(...)

July gets off to better start than January in 162-plate frenzy
- Motors
- July 12, 2016, 14:04
July could out-pace the more traditional January in the sales race this year, as early figures from Motorcheck.ie suggest that the first seven days of(...)

Surge in UK car imports into Ireland expected after Brexit vote
- Motors
- June 24, 2016, 10:13
A surge in low-priced UK used imports is expected after the Brexit vote. Dealers are predicting this in turn wil l cause Irish used car values to plum(...)

PCPs may leave motorists out of pocket at trade-in time
- Motors
- June 20, 2016, 06:30
It seems so tempting. Put down a deposit, usually in the shape of the car you are trading in, pay some affordable monthly fees and drive away in a shi(...)

Sterling-euro exchange rate opens up car import market
- Motors
- February 24, 2016, 01:00
Private imports of used cars took a tiny uptick in January so far, compared to the same period in 2014, thanks to a faint improvement in the exchange (...)