More and more of us are buying new cars.
CSO figures show that the number of new private cars licensed in May jumped by 9.5% on the same month last year.
In total, there were nearly 60-thousand new private cars licensed in the year to the end of May 2014, a rise of 27.4 per cent compared to the same period in 2013.
Suzanne Sheridan, Press Officer for the Society of the Irish Motor Industry says this news is a sign of things to come