Auto Ireland 2024

Auto Ireland 2024: check out the complete A-Z of new cars on the roads this year

With January more or less behind us, it’s an interesting time to both reflect on the year that has gone by and ponder the one ahead of us.

Porsche Taycan continues to impress; available in three body styles, with a wide array of power outputs and two battery sizes, it’s stunning to drive, ridiculously quick and it’ll do 400-500km on a charge

As ever it seems, the car industry is in flux. Today, that means the headline-dominating move to electrification.

The expected increase in electric car ownership has certainly happened, but perhaps not as quickly as some might have predicted. That won’t have been helped by what appears to be a distinctly anti-car government.

But until the country has a public transport system that’s fit for purpose, people are going to rely on cars, and we’re going ...