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Archive for September, 2008
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
As we all try harder and harder to secure the very lowest price for the Car we want - most of us will spend a few hours trawling the Internet.
Using our keyboard, we can access hundreds of individual leasing brokers, Leasing Companies and Price comparison sites. After several hours, we ...
Posted in Check A Broker
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Child seat supertest
What Car Friday, September 12, 2008
Your child is your most precious passenger, so you will want to be confident that your child seat can cope with family life and is easy for you to use.
Here we put a selection of group one child seats to the test.
Generally, group ...
Posted in Child Seats
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
You'll all have heard the news that Lloyds TSB and HBOS have merged, creating a new "superbank", in response to HBOS' plummetting share prices. Their merger ordinarily would not have got through, had it not been due to the general financial crises that we seem to hear about every day.
Lex, ...
Posted in Car Leasing and Contract Hire News
Monday, September 15th, 2008
The new EU5 (EURO 5) standard, recently ratified by the European Parliament, introduces new, stricter exhaust emission limits for both petrol and diesel engines. It is currently planned that these limits will come into force for all new models introduced from September 2009.
The EU5 standard primarily ...
Posted in Driver Information
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
After depreciation, fuel costs are likely to be your biggest motoring expense. Follow these tips and you should save yourself a few quid.
• You can expect fuel consumption to be worse than the official combined figure. As a rule of thumb, expect 10% to 15% less mileage than this figure ...
Posted in Miscellaneous Articles
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Police and DVLA officials are having a clamp down on vehicles that are untaxed but on-road in Warrington.
Owners must pay a fine or have the vehicle taxed within 24 hours - else the vehicles will be towed away. You can find out more at the Warrington Guardian.
If you take out ...
Posted in Car Leasing and Contract Hire News, Miscellaneous Articles
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
A useful article, taken from Fleet News - explains how a fleet can save money on its fuel expenditure, and some of the benefits of fuel cards (For use at filling stations)
How can you ensure you pay the lowest price possible, minimise fuel con-sumption and pay only for fuel used ...
Posted in Company Cars
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
The most commonly asked question we get is "What's your best Deal !". As the the answer is often objective its difficult to pinpoint what the customer requires the vehicle to do for them, however, more often than not, "Best Deal" refers to lowest cost for the vehicle with the ...
Posted in Car Leasing and Contract Hire News, Company Cars
