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The latest car costs bulletin from AA Ireland was gloomy reading when we got to work last week. Nearly €650 a year extra to run a compact family car than it did last year‚ Ouch!
Though there was actually a small drop in the average price of a car, pretty well everything else had gone up. Insurance a little bit, servicing a bit more, financing (when you could get it) also pricier.
But fuel is the big culprit, up from an average of €2,000 a year to €2,301 (did you realise that you’re sloshing that much go-juice into your tank over 12 months? Definitely time to invest in a Motorcheck Topaz Fuel Card ).
Got us to wondering where we sit on the fuel price league? We surely must be near the top, right? Well, hey, feel better‚ Ireland is actually 15th out of 28 countries in petrol prices. Ours is on average 1.52, Norway the most expensive at 1.84, and Estonia the cheapest at 1.25 (figures courtesy AA Ireland). And for diesel, well, we’re 13th at 1.43, against Norway at 1.73 and Luxembourg at 1.19.
(Please do NOT tell Minister Noonan, who might slap on a bucket of extra tax to get us in the ‘douze points’ position over Norway!)
Meanwhile, it’s nice to know that Toyota is thinking of us poor motorists and the stress we’re suffering day by day. Among a list of new safety technologies being developed by the Japanese company is a health monitor built into the steering wheel, aimed at giving us advance warning of heart attacks and other nasty events.
Bill Ford visits CorkCertainly looking like he doesn’t need anything in that line is Bill Ford Jr (William Clay Ford on his birth cert), who took time out while on a private trip to Ireland to unveil a plaque in Ballinascarthy, Co Cork, commemorating the Ford family’s connection with the village. He had lunch with locals and some relatives. And since he was only down the road, Ford Ireland’s boss, Eddie Murphy, motored in to toot a Model T horn. And to remind us again that the Cork company is the only Ford business in the world left with the founder’s full name.
William Clay Ford and Michael Illich deserve each other. They should buy the pistons together and have a complete package of ineptitude.
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