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Europcar has been voted the ‘best car hire company’ by the Sunday Times Travel magazine.

The likelihood that the Chancellor will amend company car tax in the 2008 Budget has edged closer to reality.

Ford is to build 500 special Focus STs, priced at £20,495.

The more hardcore Clio Renaultsport 197 Cup model will cost £1,000 less than the standard Clio 197 model.

October’s new car market has provided a welcome, and unexpected, boost to the industry by outperforming expectations.

Citroën has supplied a fleet of 17 C1 models to airline company Go-Ahead to be used as airside support vehicles.

Subaru has donated five Tribeca SUVs to be used as support vehicles for the crews who are flying the only remaining Vulcan bomber.

More than 90% of all rural road injury crashes in 2006 did not involve exceeding a speed limit.

The UK remarketing scene is dominated by two major players with a huge range of products and services. But what innovations are happening in the rest of the market?

County council scheme allows staff to use cars for work, and also out of office hours

Fleet managers are struggling to manage workloads, with nearly 90% (89%) finding it a challenge to prioritise tasks.

GE Fleet Services has appointed Simon Leitch as corporate business development manager.

David Blackmore has joined the Affinity Partners division of Fleet Alliance as commercial director.

Autoglass has appointed Nick Henwood as operations director.

Pendragon Contracts has recruited Mike Roe as sales and marketing director responsible for expanding Pendragon’s contract hire client base.

Mike Watkins, fleet coordinator, JDM Accord

Clive Wilson, national sales manager small to medium enterprises (SME), CAP

Thatcham’s intention to create a standard for crash repair methods has taken another step forward with the formation of a new working group – ReMAG (Repair Methods Assessment Group).

Land Rover has won a contract to deliver a training programme for National Grid Wireless to enable engineers who drive 4x4 vehicles to cope with adverse driving conditions.

A driver has been convicted for breaching a rolling roadblock set up by Highways Agency traffic officers on the M60.

Fleet managers who already have masses of detailed information on where their vehicles are and what route they took to get there, can now access the same detailed information on where their drivers are.

Skoda is supplying 37 Octavia 1.9-litre diesels to Motiva Vehicle Contracts Ltd, which leases the vehicles to Peek Traffic Limited, with the view to providing more.

Virgin Trains has announced a partnership with pay-by-the-hour car club WhizzGo.

New technology provided for Essex Police by the Highways Agency is reducing the time a road needs to be closed after a serious traffic collision.

HSBC Vehicle Finance has revamped its contract hire proposition following customer feedback.

Leasedrive VELO has taken its millionth rental booking.

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) is welcoming indications that local authorities will be denied the opportunity to use local road charging schemes as a general revenue raiser.

The Highways Agency today launched a technology trial between junctions 28 and 27 on the M25 to reduce congestion on what is one of the busiest sections of the London Orbital.

A new environmentally friendly vehicle rental company, Green Motion, has just opened its first branch.

In conjunction with Road Safety Week, Arval highlighted the results of common errors behind the wheel with a dramatic re-enactment of a crash.