Welcome to Business Car Manager
Another Pre Budget Report – and yet more taxes on small business, including further business motoring taxes. Details of how the car fuel benefit rise will affect you are below.
It’s little wonder, then, that small businesses take greater care than larger enterprises to ensure their new cars lose the least amount of money. That’s one of the findings in the latest BCA Used Car Report. On those criteria, will Jaguar’s restyled new X-TYPE make the grade with small business fleets? Read our story and make up your own mind.
Ralph Morton - editor
HEADLINE NEWS
Apart from hitting small businesses with capital gains tax changes, the Pre Budget Report introduced a tax rise for business motoring: an increase in the fuel benefit charge.
ALSO IN THE NEWS
Jaguar has revised its Audi A4 and BMW 3 Series rival – the X-TYPE. But is the restyle, and a six-speed auto diesel option, enough to win business user choosers?
Small businesses know their onions. Or, in this case, how to make smart choices on car purchases. And they’re leaving larger businesses behind on bottom line profits. Read the report.
If you’ve admired the styling, but not the prices, this newest version of the Audi A5 Coupe could be just for you. An A5 1.8 TFSI starting at just £26,000.
ROAD TESTS
It’s got more doors. It has more practicality. But does getting versatile make the MINI less fun? We test the new Clubman to find out if more is less.
How come Simister gets all the good jobs? The Independent’s motoring writer takes the wheel of Aston Martin’s new V8 Roadster – a real Porsche 911 rival.
ADVICE CENTRE
Rock Hudson is an architectural visualisation company. But when the business began expanding, they needed a transport answer that was cheap – and green. Director Robert Valenta explains.
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