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As part of this announcement, Jaguar will also form a strategic partnership with the ECB’s National Cricket Performance Centre. This association will form part of Jaguar’s long-term com... Read Futher
BMW has confirmed its first electric vehicle with the launch of a new sub-brand coming in 2013.
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Jaguar to drive England Cricket Team forward....
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As part of this announcement, Jaguar will also form a strategic partnership with the ECB’s National Cricket Performance Centre. This association will form part of Jaguar’s long-term com.... |
BMW confirms new brand and first Electric Vehicle
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BMW has confirmed its first electric vehicle with the launch of a new sub-brand coming in 2013. The Megacity Vehicle will be a rear-engined car around the size of a lower medium hatchback,.... |
Man loses licence after being caught drink-driving toy car
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A man who was caught drink-driving a Barbie car has been banned for three years. The car in question isn’t the Fiat 500 Barbie edition but a children’s electric car which can reach th.... |
Tories vow to clean up company car tax
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The Conservative party has stated that they would intend to do away with the existing company car tax system if they arrive into power. Shadow secretary of state for transport Theresa Villi.... |
Sales of used cars drop thanks to scrappage scheme
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sales of used small car are suffering in the face of scrappage scheme success, the latest data from information service experts, Experian reveals. Used car sales fell by 6.6.... |
No more scrappage scheme - What now?
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Now that the scrappage scheme has been scrapped, questions are being raised as to how the UK motoring industry will be effected by its end. The chief executive of Pendragon, T.... |
Motorists upset with latest budget increase
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling MP gave little in the way of help to embattled motorists. The biggest news related to motoring from the 2010 budget was a staggering of the near 3p incr.... |
Scrappage scheme has 75,000 registrations left
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UK dealers have until the end of this month to use up 75,000 registrations that are left as part of the scrappage scheme. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders reported that 324,991.... |
New delay on road safety strategy
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Britain’s next 10-year road safety strategy, which will lay the framework that all Government-backed road safety initiatives will follow until 2020, is unlikely to be published before the gen.... |
Ford extends eco features with Econetic Technologies
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Ford has created a new environmental initiative to develop technologies that will bring down CO2 emissions and fuel consumption on all its vehicles. Econetic Technologies marks a change in e.... |
Audi shows off new A8 hybrid
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Another concept car making its debut in the petrolhead-packed Swiss city of Geneva this week is the Audi A8 hybrid. It has two engines – a 2.0 TFSI and an electric power unit – which to.... |
Car sales grow by 26 per cent
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New car sales grew by 26.4 per cent in February this year, compared to the same month of 2009, the latest data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has revealed. A tota.... |
Volkswagen restructure team to focus on contract hire and leasing
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Volkswagen Fleet Services has undergone a team restructure to increase the focus and service offered to the contract hire and leasing market. As part of the restructure, Ed Hummel has .... |
Dutch road pricing trial declared a success
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A six-month road pricing trial conducted in the city of Eindhoven, which was designed to help the Dutch government deal with traffic congestion, saw 70% of drivers changing their behavior to avoid .... |
Government scrappage scheme to enter exit phase
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Government scrappage scheme to enter exit phase - manufacturer order allocations set The final phase of the Government’s scrappage scheme will begin Wednesday.... |
Millions wasted on council grey fleets
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Exclusive FROM Fleet News research last month (Fleet News, November 19) highlighted how many county councils are paying their grey fleet drivers 53 pence per mile when annual lump sum payments are .... |
Lamborghini Crashes On Way to Wedding
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Your wife-to-be has lovingly spent £8000 on hiring you an amazing supercar for your big day, just so you can arrive in some serious style, what’s the one thing you should not do. Yes, t.... |
Company car drivers who neglect tyres risk accidents
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According to safety group TyreSafe, 25 per cent of company car drivers have never checked the depth of their tyre tread, and 41 per cent of company car drivers have neglected to check their tread w.... |
Mechanic Heart Surgery
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A well known mechanic was removing a cylinder head from the engine of a BMW when he spotted a well-known heart surgeon in his shop. The surgeon was there waiting for the service manager.... |
Driver saved by postal strike
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Peter Gidden was sent a statutory notice warning him that he had been caught by a speed camera, but it got there two days late because of the strike. The law states that such notices must be.... |
Risk Management
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It has compared the changing approach to occupational road risk by more than 1,400 fleet managers over the past three years and discovered failings where duty of care is concerned. For examp.... |
Vehicle Servicing From £99+VAT
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We service Any Make Any Model of vehicle; we can collect your vehicle from your place of work or home, Should you prefer we can provide you with one of our fully insured 4 door vehicles for your co.... |
Directors are to take care
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ROGUE COMPANY DIRECTORS AND MANAGERS Company directors and managers - including fleet operators - that turn a blind eye to occupational road risk management could find themselves being jailed.... |