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Ford has unveiled the new S-Max Vignale concept in Milan. And it continues to expand its vision for a unique upmarket product and ownership experience for Ford’s European customers.

I believe that my grandfather, Ronnie Hackett, was surprised when my grandmother agreed to marry him. He was the youngest of six brothers and four sisters, born in the Blackrock area of Cork city. Many of the brothers having a medical qualification went off to see the world with the British merchant navy. But in their later lives all came back to Cork, and enjoyed a happy life fishing and shooting, and a little bit of medicine. Indeed there are several family stories about a brother’s wife apologising to a full waiting room for her husband’s abrupt departure ‘on an urgent medical matter’. Whereas in fact, the call was from another brother to come fishing.

A tight finish to last weekend’s 2014 Midland Moto Stages Rally saw Paddy McVeigh from Tyrone come out on top over Pirelli star Daniel McKenna. The pair battled for the top spot throughout and only four hundredths of a second separated them at the final service. On the final loop McVeigh’s advantage of four wheel drive in his Subaru Impreza WRC told over Mckenna’s Ford Escort MK2. Longford man Tommy Doyle banged and popped his way to third in his high revving Renault Clio. A tight loop of mixed fast flowing and technical driving stages awaited the crews on Sunday last and the event as always, attracted a number of Mayo & District entries.

Figures just released by the SIMI (Society of the Irish Motor Industry) for vehicle sales for the first quarter of this year show that new car sales are up by 26.59 per cent on last year. At almost 49,960 (v 39,466 in Q1 2013) cars sold, the first quarter of this year has outperformed all other periods since 2008.

Ford is very pleased that its market-leading commercial vehicle range has scooped six major trophies at the UK's 2014 VansA2Z Awards, including the overall Van of the Year title with the all-new Transit, due here later this month.

The new Honda Civic Tourer has just gone on sale with an entry-level price of €25,695. And following a short test recently in a 1.6 i-DTEC Sport version equipped with Honda’s new Dynamic Safety Pack option which offers a suite of advanced active safety aids, I was very impressed, writes Padraic Deane.

Ford has achieved what it describes as a landmark double victory in one of the most gruelling tests of vehicle performance on the planet, the Arctic Van Test.

Ford has achieved what it describes as a landmark double victory in one of the most gruelling tests of vehicle performance on the planet, the Arctic Van Test.

Ford says that the new Focus elevates the world’s best-selling nameplate with a bolder, more emotive exterior design, a finely crafted, intuitive new interior, a suite of life-enhancing new technologies and major fuel economy improvements. Now that’s praise indeed for the new version that will go on sale here by this year end!

Ford says the new Focus elevates the world’s best-selling nameplate with a bolder, more emotive exterior design, a finely-crafted intuitive new interior, a suite of life-enhancing new technologies, and major fuel economy improvements. Now that is praise indeed for the new version that will go on sale here by this year end.