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Neil Briscoe

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Neil Briscoe

    Audi’s new Q7 is diesel-only until next year (opens the original)

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    No, this isn’t a belated Back to the Future sequel. No, you haven’t tripped and stumbled into The Time Tunnel. Doctor Who has nothing to do with this, and it’s not 2010 all over again. All that being the case, yes, this new Audi Q7 really is launching to Irish customers with only the choice of two different versions of the same 3.0 litre V6 diesel engine. It’s as if the intervening 16 years had simply not happened. Is Audi mad? Evidently not. For all the four-ringed brand’s global sale

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Neil Briscoe

    BMW reinvents the petrol 3 Series for the Neue Klasse era — but there’s a price (opens the original)

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    BMW is betting on two horses in the same race, as it is about to introduce the high-tech, all-electric i3 saloon — an electric 3 Series in all but name — with its 900km range and ultra-fast charging, while simultaneously recreating the petrol-powered 3 Series for a longer life, investing a claimed €2 billion as it does so. In spite of the clamour for SUVs, the 3 Series remains totemic for BMW, and even though the X1 SUV is now the brand’s biggest seller, a 3 Series is still what most peo

  3. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Neil Briscoe

    Does going electric still save me money if my fuel is VAT-refundable? (opens the original)

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    I read the story on the estimation of the fuel savings of an electric car. Can you apply similar logic to my case? I drive a new Hyundai Tucson PHEV. It is very suitable for carrying equipment to deal with my wife’s mobility issue. I do only about 4,500km per annum. Because of the mobility issue, we get a refund of VAT on all petrol used. No such refund is available for electricity used in charging a car. Because of our circumstances, we spend a lot of time at home each day, using quite a bit

  4. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Neil Briscoe

    Nissan’s new Leaf is a big change, but it is ageing well (opens the original)

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    Nissan mugged us, and by us I mean the crowd of motoring journalists who had gathered to witness the launch of the latest, third generation Leaf in Ireland. And by mugged, I mean … someone had dug out a video, shot during the original Leaf’s Irish launch in 2010, which featured yours truly and some colleagues being vox-popped by someone from Nissan with a camera, asking us what we thought about the car way back then. In that video, I honestly appear to be 12 years old. I’m surprised I didn

  5. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Neil Briscoe

    Forget bigger batteries: VW shows another way to boost EV range (opens the original)

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    Volkswagen might be in crisis right now – shedding jobs and with even some ancillary brands potentially in the cost-cutting crosshairs – but the German firm is determined to prove that it’s still at the cutting edge of electric car technology with this, the Mission Efficiency concept car. Those with long memories might remember the Volkswagen XL1, which wasn’t so much a concept as an incredibly limited-edition production car. It sought to squeeze as much mileage out of a litre of diesel

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