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BMW 3 Series is best company car

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1 November 2012

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BMW 3 Series – the best company car according to ACFO, winning the Fleet Car of the Year Award at the annual ACFO Awards

Story: RALPH MORTON

IF you want the best company car, then look no further than the BMW 3 Series.

That’s according to members of ACFO – the Association of Car Fleet Operators – the hard-nosed bunch of fleet operators who look after some of the major company car fleets in the UK.

So they should know what they are talking about.

They voted the BMW 3 Series  as the best in class, based on their experience of running costs, reliability, and company car tax, naming it the ACFO Fleet Car of the Year at the annual ACFO awards last night (31 October).

Runner up was the Ford Focus.

Ford Focus
Ford Focus: runner up as best company car

Other winners included Volvo, with its pedestrian airbag, winning Fleet Safety Initiative of the Year. This bag pops up under the bonnet to protect pedestrians in case they are hit, providing a life-saving cushion to decrease the chance of fatalities.

Volvo pedestrian airbag
Volvo: safety award for its pedestrian airbag

Vauxhall won the Green Vehicle of the Year with its range extender Vauxhall Ampera, providing low CO2 emissions (27g/km)  for a low company car tax band of just 5%.

Vauxhall Ampera
Vauxhall Ampera: the low emission ‘range extender’ hatchback won Green Car Award

ACFO celebrated 40 years at the awards as the premier organisation for fleet operators of company cars and vans.

Business Car Manager is running its own SME Company Car of the Year Awards later this month – will our judges come to the same conclusion?

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Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton is an award-winning journalist and the founder of Business Car Manager (now renamed Business Motoring). Ralph writes extensively about the car and van leasing industry as well as wider fleet and company car issues. A former editor of What Car?, Ralph is a vastly experienced writer and editor and has been writing about the automotive sector for over 35 years.

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