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Completecar.ie Announcement

By Cartell.ie | Published: August 17, 2011
Cartell.ie is delighted to announce a new partnership with car advice experts Completecar.ie. Fronted by Ireland’s leading motoring journalists Shane O Donoghue and Paddy Comyn, Completecar has already established itself as one of the foremost Irish sources for consumer buying advice – offering practical and readily accessible information in a unique and authoritative way. As [...]
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Is Car Platooning the next big thing?

By Cartell.ie | Published: August 11, 2011
Car Platooning – is this the future? The newspaper The Economist in their most recent Technology Quarterly considers whether a technology that lets drivers remain in their cars, but asks them to relinquish control on long journeys, have any chance of success. The article cites automobile “platoons” as a possible solution to congestion and would [...]
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Le Mans cars: more advanced than F1 counterparts?

By Jeff Aherne | Published: November 9, 2010
John Walsh considers in some detail the differences between F1 and  Le Mans Prototype (LMP) cars before concluding that F1 cars are still at the apex of car technology Have you ever seen a Le Man car in action? If you’ve ever looked at images of one up close you’ll see that this obtuse lumbering [...]
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International Motor Trade Fair- Frankfurt

By Jeff Aherne | Published: September 21, 2010
Automechanika the leading international trade fair for the automotive industry closed in Frankfurt on Sunday. It is considered the global meeting place for the sector and record visitor numbers have been seen at the event in recent years: 161,000 visitors from 146 countries came to Frankfurt for the show in 2008. A major reason for [...]
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How Irish Garda Cars Compare

By Jeff Aherne | Published: August 17, 2010
On Mondays Motormouth, Daragh, Jeff and Tony outlined the high speed vehicles deployed by police forces to enforce traffic legislation. A fantastic self explanatory blog entitled The Twelve Coolest Police Cars in Action highlights some seriously fast police cars that we can only dream of having over here. Number one on the list with a [...]
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