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EVERY fleet customer for the new Honda Civic Type-R, will receive free driver training on how to handle the 200bhp, 146mph hot hatch, courtesy of the firm's Motor Appreciation Course.

FORMER transport minister Steven Norris has called for more incentives to persuade fleets to switch to gas-powered vehicles as a poll of public sector fleet managers showed they would not be prepared to make a major investment in LPG.

SMART has announced prices for the first influx of right hand drive models to enter Britain in early November.

COMPANY car drivers are having to wait up to 16 weeks to take delivery of Peugeot 607s - but the manufacturer's fleet and leasing director John Taylor says customers are happy to wait.

BMW is introducing a new dealer bonus scheme to ensure it protects its residual values in the UK as new product arrives.

THE internet is helping used car dealers speed-up their sales of secondhand cars and improve their customer service, with knock-on benefits for residual values.

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TABLES at this year's 'FN50' Dinner are almost sold out with more than 300 fleet industry leaders expected to attend.

COMPANY car drivers are having to wait up to 16 weeks to take delivery of Peugeot 607s - but the manufacturer's fleet and leasing director John Taylor says customers are happy to wait.

EVERY time I go to a motor show, I sit and ponder over every new car's position in the market - and last week's Frankfurt Motor Show was no exception.

TWO hard-hitting air quality reports published this week have taken a strongly anti-diesel stance.

##congresssm--right##FLEET News and Ford want to hear your views on the new company car tax system with the launch today of the largest research project yet undertaken into the new benefit-in-kind tax regime that comes into force in April 2002.

COMPANY car drivers could see speed limiters fitted to their vehicles in plans to cut the number of road deaths and improve highway safety in Wales.

LONDON fleets are at the heart of one of the biggest trials of electric-powered zero-emissions vehicles in the country.

FLEETS have a two-year deadline to prepare a system that will enable them to provide details of every vehicle covered by their corporate insurance policy to a new Government-backed insurance database.

STYLE, safety and wholelife costs will feature at the heart of Renault's bid to attract company car drivers out of executive German cars and into its new Vel Satis.

TIME-pressed business travellers are the target customers for a concept van from Renault that mixes the practicality of a top-of-the-range minibus and a mobile office.

PEUGEOT gave pride of place to two concept versions of its smash-hit 206 supermini and new 307 models at the show.

HOPES are high that a stunning new Chrysler sports coupe will soon be on offer in Britain.

VEHICLE hire and accident management group Helphire has clinched a three-month trial of its products with AA Insurance Services, which will reach a potential customer base of one million drivers.

IT seems callously premature to assess the impact on the fleet and motor industry of last week's terrorist attacks in the United States.

MERCEDES-BENZ Direct has sold its first used car to a private customer over the internet.

DAEWOO has announced its first franchised dealer partners as part of the restructuring of its UK network.

CONSTRUCTION company Thomas Vale has outsourced its accident management to Willis Groups' motor initiative team.

THE Government is looking at a scheme to give traffic wardens the power to either detain people until the police arrive or serve fixed penalty notices for breaking various traffic laws such as out-of-date tax discs, ignoring signals and lights and not wearing seat belts.

INCHCAPE Vehicle Contracts has upgraded its computer system as part of its plans for European expansion.

TOYOTA has announced prices for its new diesel-powered RAV4 D4-D.

CONTRACT hire company First National Vehicle Holdings claims to have won the year's largest single courtesy car deal, with a 400 vehicle contract for bodyshop firm Solus London.

LAND Rover is in the process of compiling a list of approved liquefied petroleum gas conversion specialists as it prepares to launch a V8 petrol version of the Discovery Commercial next year.

JAGUAR has unveiled a striking coupe concept at Frankfurt, which offers clues to the company's future design philosophy.