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NORTHGATE Motor Holdings announced a £40 million order for Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicles at the Fleet Motor Show.

BRITISH Car Auctions and BCH Vehicle Management have announced a year-long disposal deal involving about 1,000 vehicles a year.

HUNDREDS of cars on the Inland Revenue's fast-cycle fleet replacement scheme will go under the hammer at a series of eight sales at British Car Auctions centres around the country this month.

Daewoo scored a multi-million pound double within three hours of the doors opening on the Fleet Show. Two accident management service companies spent an estimated £5.7 million on new cars.

AN initiative designed to promote understanding of environmental issues which affect company vehicles has been launched by Vauxhall and Fleet News at the Fleet Motor Show.

SWAN National has become the first fleet customer for ATS Euromaster's new pan-European fleet service launched this week at the Fleet Motor Show.

VAUXHALL has seized the initiative in the environmental stakes with the launch at the Fleet Motor Show of Britain's first range of fully manufacturer warranted dual fuel cars and vans.

FOUR fleet managers collectively responsible for an annual spend of more than £11 million lined up at the Fleet Motor Show as the first winners of coveted places on the trailblazing £50,000 RAC Scholarship Awards Scheme.

VAUXHALL'S fleet chief has slammed cut-throat discounting by motor manufacturers desperate to win a share of the fleet market.

ESSENTIAL car users, both fleet and private, will be urged to drive 'greener, cleaner, safer cars' in the Government's forthcoming integrated transport white paper.

BUDGET Rent A Car is taking delivery of more than 1,000 Ford Escort GTIs in a deal worth £15 million at showroom prices.

THE new Vauxhall Astra costs 11% less to repair than its predecessor, according to Vauxhall Aftersales, in a comparison analysis on crash parts pricing.

FLEETS face stiff increases in car hire rates and some rental companies could shut as the daily rental industry struggles against a tide of adverse economic pressures.

TRAFFIC congestion is continuing to worsen but the rate of increase has declined for the second quarter in succession, according to new figures from Milton Keynes-based Trafficmaster.

A BITTER war of words has started between the UK's two largest motoring organisations concerning the proposed £450 million takeover of RAC Motoring Services by Cendant Corporation.

FORD has provided two of its high-performance ST24s for evaluation by Kent Constabulary.

STEVENAGE-based FCS Computer Services, which provides the Oracle developed DRIVE Fleet Management Software, has launched a fully-integrated set of financial ledgers.

SAVINGS of more than £100,000 will be made by the UK fleet of Compass - the world's largest global food services company - under the terms of an innovative three-year deal with Fleetcare.

THE bitter long-running dispute over NHS company cars has come to a head, with the National Health Service Transport Managers Association preparing to go out to tender for the supply of up to 10,000 lease cars.

NATIONAL Car Rental has signed a one-year sole supplier contract worth £2.2 million with Barclays Bank.

AUTOLEASE has awarded an exclusive three-year contract to National Car Rental involving the supply of 55,000 short-term rental vehicles.

VAN sales dipped last month compared to April 1997, but sales of both small vans and panel vans remain well ahead of last year.

DIESEL car sales in both the fleet and total UK markets dropped almost 10% last month with the biggest casualties being the top three diesel manufacturers - Peugeot, Ford and Vauxhall.

FLEET sales were at record levels again last month with Renault surprising the traditional 'big four' as Megane sales doubled year-on-year to surge to number two in the best-selling fleet model list in April.

WINDSCREEN replacement company Silver Shield is to spend at least £800,000 developing its network of service centres.

THE Volkswagen Passat is the hardest car in Britain to steal, according to new research from the Consumers Association which tested security on 35 of the country's best-selling superminis, lower medium and upper medium sector models.

VOLKSWAGEN Emergency Assistance, the branded roadside assistance scheme operated on behalf of the manufacturer by Mondial Assistance, is swapping its fleet of Passat estates for 60 Sharans to patrol the UK.

THE Government's unwillingness to make decisions on a string of motor and fleet-related issues is contributing to a belief by Britain's car dealers that the present regime is 'bad for business'.

EX-Tottenham Hotspur triallist Roger Partridge, now general manager of Crowthorne, Berks, contract hire and daily rental company Leasedrive, is taking the 1998 RAC-Fleet News Five-a-Side Charity Soccer Challenge very seriously.

SIGNIFICANT investment to launch a range of new services to fleet customers is to be made in FTM Tyrefit following its acquisition by the Montinex group of fast-fit companies, it was revealed this week.