choosing new car

Hi,

Should I change my 2024 VW Golf (three-cylinder 1.0-litre mild-hybrid) next year for a new 1.5-litre four-cylinder Golf or perhaps a 1.8 Toyota Corolla?

I want a car to keep indefinitely. I love my current Golf and would be happy to hold onto it but I have doubts about the long-term reliability of a three-cylinder 1.0-litre engine.

What do you think? Our annual milage is about 17,000km mainly town driving with a few mixed road journeys of 40-80km weekly plus the odd few longer road trips annually.

Thanks.

I drive a Toyota CH-R Sport 1.8, but I'm thinking of buying an Alfa Romeo Junior hybrid. I live in the countryside; which car would be more fuel efficient for me?

When is the Jaecoo 7 on sale in Ireland and do you know who will be the distributor?

I was living in the North when I bought my last new Audi A7. I saved a considerable sum by shopping around dealers. In RoI, do all Audi dealers stick to the website price or is it worth shopping around?

Audi Ireland only seems to offer a three-year general warranty. Is it possible to buy an extended warranty?

Yours was the best review I have read about the A6 Sportback e-tron. I live on top of a hill two miles from a main road and they do not grit here. I prefer quattro but also want max range - any advice as to how to choose between the quattro and the advance?

Sorry for the three questions!

Looking to get a 6+ seater for my big family. We've been driving a SEAT Tarraco of some description for five years but it's on the small side for our needs. Trying to nail down the best value offering on the market at the moment is proving difficult.

We've looked at the Mazda CX-80, Hyundai Santa Fe and Toyota Highlander in person, but also have the Kia Sorento/EV9, Ford Tourneo, Multivan etc. on our list to check out.

We'd be going with a PCP most likely. We currently run an i30 as well, so with any more than six people going together we need the two cars. Option of having a six-seater or pushing to an 8/9 van.

Any thoughts would be amazing.

Will the new MINI Countryman be sold as a PHEV?

First time going electric; do I go for the Skoda Elroq 50 or BYD Atto 3? Don't do whole lot of driving and work is 5km away from me hence killing the GTD!

Hi,

Can you tell me do the MG cars come as four-wheel drive?

I am currently driving a 2021 Range Rover Velar PHEV, which I bought new. It has only covered 8,500 miles to date. It's in perfect condition. Silver metallic paintwork, with black top and it also has a full fixed-glass roof with automatic blind.

I was thinking of changing for a Nissan Qashqai e-Power hybrid, or a Mazda MX-30 with the petrol engine to charge the battery. This seems to be a big improvement on the original launch model which had a very limited range.

I may be moving to an apartment which does not have a car-charging facility, and I am not quite ready to go fully electric yet.

I have a buyer interested in my Velar and I was wondering what value you would put on it, if I was to sell privately, and purchase the new car in a straight deal?

We are giving our Passat estate (2012) to our daughter when she returns from overseas in Sept. The question is: should we purchase our own preferred replacement car soon, when one comes up, leaving the Passat unused for a few months, or should we keep using the Passat and buy in September, when perhaps our favoured car may not be available?