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Honda gets back on track
LAST year Honda seemed to be in a terrible place. Lack of new product, factory layoffs while Jaguar Land Rover were recruiting, a corporate sales team without clear direction… …it wasn’t good. But fortunately that has changed. And much of it surrounds the company’s new 1.6 litre diesel engine. And the fact that corporate sales… Read more…
Why you’d want to work at Fleet Alliance
IF you want to find the best place to work in Scotland – head for business car leasing provider and partner of this website, Fleet Alliance. It’s official, too. Fleet Alliance was voted Best Company to Work For in the independent Great Place to Work Institute survey for companies up to 49 employees. The institute… Read more…
How to sell a Fiesta ST
THOSE who understand these things say that in the recent uprising of small hot hatches, it’s Ford who can feel smug and Renault and Peugeot who must be casting nervous glances in the Fiesta ST’s direction. It looks the business to start with – there were nine identical red ones lined up in the morning… Read more…
Do you look after your drivers’ road safety enough?
RUNNING a small business is demanding. We know that here at Business Car Manager towers. There’s always plenty to do: planning, operations, client meetings, cars to test, stories to write, managing the business… The list goes on. And I suspect that’s the same for most small businesses and SME firms. But if you manage… Read more…
1 in 3 new BMW 3 Series will be a Gran Turismo
SO what do we make of the new BMW 3 Series Gran Turismo?Big for a 3 Series, that’s for sure; a neat step up, or down, from a 5 Series, certainly. A bit dumpy? Yes, I think it is from some angles. Hatchbacks often can be that bit more upright to cram in all that… Read more…
BMW’s electric revolution
A SELECT few gathered in Leipzig last week to be ushered into the production facility for BMW’s new i-branded, electric car range, the city-focused i3 and the supercar i8. We came away with a much, much clearer sense of the i3, which –unbelievably- is just months away from hitting UK roads. With the range extender… Read more…
Fleet and leasing order demand for new Audi SQ5
IT’S perhaps a bit hard to believe at first – that demand for Audi’s tarmac-ripping SQ5 model should come from fleet and leasing companies. But such seems to be the case. I spoke to Gillian Headings at the launch of the new Audi SQ5. Gillian is the product manager for the Q5 range as well… Read more…
What’s the future of clean fuels?
WELL, the answer is – I’m likely to find out! In June I’m off to the rather grandly titled ‘Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum Keynote Seminar’. So there. This plans – among other things – to look at the future of clean fuel cars in the UK. So will I be ditching my diesel… Read more…
Cowley gets 1000 MINI building robots as 100th birthday present
IN FRONT of UK Secretary of State for Transport, the Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin, BMW’s Oxford boss Frank Bachmann confirmed that the German parent of MINI was sticking with last year’s promise to invest £250m in over a thousand robots at Plant Oxford, where the BMW MINI is currently produced. The confirmation came amidst the… Read more…
Save frozen fingers – tick the heated front windscreen option box
IF you’ve ever looked out of the window on a frosty morning and had that sinking feeling – ‘I must mentally allow five minutes for clearing the car windows of frost’ – then the benefits of a heated front windscreen are all too obvious. This morning wasn’t one of those, though. The Volvo V40… Read more…
£7.5 million invested in Ford BlueService after-sales experience
New entry level Ssangyong Korando boosts appeal
Will the new Mercedes S-Class be the best car in the world?
Hybrids must clean up their act on mpg claims
Driver assessment and training needn’t break the bank
Compliance with the law on driving at work – a five point plan