MORE motorists in Northern Ireland are being caught drink driving than a decade ago, new figures reveal. Data released by PSNI shows that last year 3,837 drivers failed a roadside breath test or refused to provide a sample. This contrasts with 3,386 in 2015 – an increase of 13%. The number of tests conducted was also up 15% […]

NEW figures have revealed the MOT test centres with the worst pass rates across Northern Ireland. The car insurance experts at CompareNI.com have ranked which Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA) test centres motorists are least likely to pass. Over the past year, Coleraine had the lowest pass rate for private cars out of all 15 test centres […]

FERRARI has been honoured with the highest design award from the German Red Dot Award association. The F80, Ferrari 12Cilindri, and Ferrari 12Cilindri Spider all received the Red Dot: Best of the Best in the Product Design category. The Red Dot Award, a leading industrial design award, honours innovation and excellence in the industry. Celebrating its 71st year, the awards ceremony will be […]

THE Dash Cam 4K Omni from 70mai has been upgraded to record in high definition 4K and you can now also add a rear facing camera too. The 70mai Omni was the first dash camera in the world able to record in 360°. It features a clever motorised rotating camera at the bottom of the […]

MAZDA has launched a new hybrid version of its popular little hatchback, the Mazda 2. Buy you’d be forgiven for thinking that it looks rather like another hybrid hatchback on the market, the Toyota Yaris. And that’s because the new Mazda 2 hybrid is actually a rebadged Yaris. If you look closely you will see […]

THIS is the new, fully electric Kia EV3, the latest vehicle to join the Korean company’s ranks. And this compact SUV is not just the most important model for Kia in 2025, it could easily be the most important vehicle in the company’s history. President and CEO Paul Philpott of Kia UK said: “We expect […]

SAY hello to the new BMW M5, the most powerful version ever and this incredible machine is also the first plug-in hybrid M5 too. Combined, its 4.4-litre twin-turbo V8, 145kw electric motor and 18.6kWh battery produce a supercar-rivalling 727bhp and 1,000Nm of torque. It’s astonishingly fast, able to blitz 0-62mph in just 3.5 seconds, and […]

MICHAEL Dunlop gave the home crowd the result they wanted with a brilliant double during the opening night of racing at the Briggs Equipment North West 200 on Thursday. The Ballymoney man, who hadn’t won a race at Portrush since 2016, took victory in the Fraser Homes Supersport race on his Milwaukee V2 Ducati and […]

GORDON Murray Automotive unveiled the £2.36m T.50 supercar in 2020 with the exclusive 100-unit production run selling out within 48 hours of launch. Utilising innovative weight saving techniques, years of Formula One motorsport expertise, and building on the foundation of Gordon Murray’s 1990s F1 road car, the T.50 rewrote the supercar rule book. Professor Gordon […]

MANY parts of Northern Ireland are still recovering from the devastation from Storm Eowyn and it’s only when the power goes out that you realise how reliant we are on electricity. So if you were stranded without electricity for a prolonged period of time then a portable power station like the Bluetti Elite 200 V2 […]