2017 Renault Alaskan
Irish motor car distributors flocked in big numbers to test the appetite for new cars among the huge audience at this year’s National Ploughing Championships in Tullamore. The huge attendance, almost 300,000 people over three days, and not all rural folk, gives the motor companies an opportunity to gauge reaction to new models.
2017 Peugeot 5008
The ploughing event has become Ireland’s biggest motor show in terms of stands, ranges of cars on view and, of course, that huge national audience.
2017 Volkswagen Tiguan 7 seat
The motor companies also used the occasion to test the market appetite for electric, hybrid and petrol cars. There were plenty of offers on view to tempt drivers away from the diesel option, the rural market that dominates events such as the ploughing championships will take some persuading to abandon diesel power, in the short term at least.
2017 Tesla
Here we look at some of the new cars that appeared at the impressive national event.
