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SECURITY manufacturer Chubb has ordered a multi-million pound fleet of Renault Meganes after visiting the manufacturer' Technocentre in Paris giving it an early viewing of the new car.

RENAULT has agreed to supply two of England's rugby players with an Espace and a Megane Coupe-Cabriolet in a sponsorship deal.

TRANSPORT Secretary Alistair Darling has awarded a Vauxhall Zafira Club to a member of the Motability Scheme.

THRIFTY Car Rental franchisee Steve How has acquired a new brand in Peterborough.

IAM Fleet, the commercial training division of the Institute of Advanced Motorists, is offering a free guidance booklet for minibus drivers.

THE management team at Bynx has agreed to buy-out the fleet solutions provider.

FLEETS could leave themselves open to fraud if they give up fuel cards when they ditch free fuel provision.

SIXT rent a car has launched a new long-term rental product that aims to free companies from what it describes as 'the ties of fleet ownership'.

DRIVERS pay little or no attention to winter weather in either their car buying or motoring habits, a survey by internet-based car retailer Jamjar Cars has found.

THE average price of a new car across Europe has increased over the past year by more than 4%, latest research suggests.

SEAT has unveiled a high-performance Ibiza which will go on sale in the UK early in 2004.

THE Countryside Agency is trialling 11 Citroen C3s as pool cars for a year, replacing the use of short-term rental cars or staff using their own vehicles.

THE lengthy process of claiming for insurance after an accident could be speeded up for European fleet managers under a proposed directive which has been 'welcomed as a political agreement' by the European Commission.

FORD is to import 101 GTs into Europe from next year. <p> The number is the same as the original volume of Ford GTs officially produced by Ford in Europe through the lifetime of the original model in the 1960s.

HYUNDAI has announced four possible sites for a new European car manufacturing plant.

SALES of light commercial vehicles across Europe increased by 2% in the third quarter of the year compared to the same period last year, latest figures show.

AS the season of New Year's resolutions approaches, members of the fleet team at Vauxhall already know what to put at the top of their list.

AS congestion charging becomes a realistic possibility nationwide over the next few years, many fleets will be looking for greener options to dodge levies. And it is the scooter manufacturers which will be hoping to pick up business as a result.

THE Subaru Legacy, which is aimed at the European sporting executive sector, has been voted Car of the Year Japan 2003/04.

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THE pan-European fleet industry will go under the spotlight at the Fleet News Europe Conference 2004.

FOUR-wheel drive vehicles are having a seasonal upturn at the moment, with the majority selling for above CAP clean estimates.

THE fleet and disposal industry will look back on 2003 fondly as a year of unprecedented stability in the used car market, with next year looking likely to be more of the same.

A BRADFORD-based dealer group has signed a solus auction remarketing deal with British Car Auctions.

CAP Black Book has under- gone a redesign to make it clearer and more usable than ever before.

THE large 4x4 used to be the preserve of farmers and country gents.

THE Government has pledged its commitment to introducing a new corporate manslaughter law despite the proposed legislation being omitted from the Queen's Speech – a move prompting speculation that it had been put on the 'back burner'.

THE pan-European fleet industry will go under the spotlight at the Fleet News Europe Conference 2004.

WALLACE and Gromit should be well protected if they crash their Renault Kangoo, according to the latest results from Euro NCAP.