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Driven: The Infiniti EX30 d GT Premium

This may be a diesel 4×4 with a highish ride height and seating position, but from its road manners and handling you’d never know it as the EX30d drives and handles on tarmac like a good saloon, or even a good sports saloon. Aided by having most of the engine mounted behind the front axle [...]

Comment: M6 Toll A Failure

Anti-car campaign group "The Campaign for Better (public) Transport" today branded the M6 Toll road "a complete failure", citing many of the reasons the ABD has repeatedly highlighted since the road was opened. The M6 Toll is 27 miles long and bypasses the congested section of the M6 around Birmingham. It costs £5 for cars [...]

Employers struggle to manage risks around how they reward employees

The proportion of HR professionals who believe that their organisation, or their client, is poorly prepared to manage the risks around how they reward their staff has grown in the past 12 months, according to a survey of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) members. Managing Reward Risks: An Integrated Approach finds that 15% [...]

Toll roads are no answer to congestion, says campaign group

The M6 Toll in the West Midlands has been a costly failure and the Government should not rely on them to solve transport problems, according to a new report released today by Campaign for Better Transport. Earlier this year Transport Secretary Philip Hammond signalled an interest in using tolls to pay for future road building [...]

Fiat in car-share fleet partnership

Fiat’s drive into the fleet market progresses with the announcement of a major tie-in with leading car-share organisation Connect. The Hertz-owned car-by-the-hour business has agreed a deal that makes the Fiat 500 and Alfa MiTo key cars in its fleet. Rolled out initially in London, the car-share scheme is being prepared for wider use later [...]

BT and Tesco encourage Welsh companies to increase at-work driving safety

Two of Britain’s largest employers that are in the vanguard of promoting occupational road risk management will be among the speakers at a major Driving for Better Business event being in held in conjunction with South Wales Police and Professional Driver Services (PDS). British Telecom and Tesco.com, which are both long-established business champion members of [...]

smart commemorates 10th anniversary with new model

smart has commemorated 10 years of UK sales with a new model – the smart fortwo gb-10 edition. Due for display at this year’s smart festival on Saturday 4th September, the gb-10 edition will add another dimension to the event’s celebrations of 10 years of smart in the UK. Just 100 examples of the gb-10 [...]

Euro NCAP commences it’s focus on Plug-In vehicles and advanced safety technologies

Euro NCAP has released the crash test results for four vehicles: the Honda CR-Z, the Suzuki Swift, the Citroen C4 and the Hyundai ix35. All of the cars received a maximum five star rating. The results show that manufacturers are rising to the challenges of Euro NCAP’s new rating scheme and are continuing to make [...]

The car scrappage scheme has helped to boost new car sales

The Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) has revealed figures showing that new car registrations sales have increased by 47 per cent year on year, for the seven months to the end of July 2010. New vehicles were sales reached 74,111 in the period to July 31st, 16,711 more than the whole total of [...]

Speeding drivers in London more likely to have their number plate recorded

New research has found that drivers in Greater London who ignore speed limits are more likely to have their car number plates photographed compared to anywhere else in the UK. RoadPilot, a GPS speed camera data supplier who conducted the survey, revealed that motorists were 100 times more likely to be caught and fined in [...]

GRS Logistics find time to save time

The logistics arm of a leading vehicle remarketing specialist has seen the time taken to undertake vital operations reduce by more than half following the deployment of a brand new system. The team at GRS’s dedicated logistics centre in the heart of Staffordshire has taken ownership of a bespoke hand-held audit application, following the commission [...]

Fleet across the pond: Distracted driving takes centre stage

You probably see them on the roads every day during your ride home from work; people talking on their cell phone or sending text messages while behind the wheel; drivers catching glimpses of the daily paper, putting on makeup, or having a meal while they drive. They may even be swerving a little and look [...]

Has the Saab 9-5 got what it takes to succeed? Fleet Voice

Wednesday 1 September 2010: The Fleet Voice Column. Are you a Saab person? If you’re an independent thinker, not one to follow the crowd and see yourself as someone who takes their own direction rather than following the herd, then the newly Dutch-owned Swedish car company reckons you are. Only problem here is, every other [...]

Northgate win new three-year deal with Gamestec

Northgate Vehicle Hire, the UK’s leading light commercial vehicle hire company, has been appointed by Gamestec, the UK’s leading gaming machine operator, in a new three-year arrangement to provide a fleet of 24 Mercedes Sprinter vans with a bespoke Luton box bodies. Northgate will also provide a vehicle monitoring system to reduce fuel costs and [...]

ABD support the reduction on signage clutter on UK roads

The ABD has supported the stance of Eric Pickles and Philip Hammond, who have written to Councils urging them to reduce the clutter of signage on Britain’s roads. Whilst agreeing that excessive street furniture is unsightly and obstructive, the ABD wants to highlight the safety issues. "Good, necessary, safety critical signage frequently gets lost in [...]

CLM selected by RSPB to raise fleet management

CLM, the UK’s leading independent fleet management company, has been selected by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to improve their maintenance management, reduce costs and cut vehicle downtime. A number of proactive measures are being introduced by CLM such as web-based initiatives, greater use of independent garages,  the use of its sophisticated [...]

Gamestec on track with new Northgate deal

Gamestec, the UK’s leading gaming machine operator, has signed a new three-year arrangement with Northgate Vehicle Hire which will see the gaming machine operator trialling a vehicle monitoring system to reduce fuel costs and improve productivity and efficiency. Northgate will provide Gamestec with a fleet of 24 Mercedes Sprinter vans with a bespoke Luton box [...]

FLA offer free training on Consumer Credit Directive requirements

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has revised its Specialist Automotive Finance (SAF) Competence Test and SAF Reference Material to provide dealers with the very latest knowledge on finance products and regulation. The update includes a brand new module on the important requirements of the Consumer Credit Directive (CCD), which the motor industry has until [...]

Prevent Bank Holiday blowouts

Drivers preparing to get away and make the most of the final Bank Holiday weekend of the year are being reminded to check their tyre pressures before setting out. Tyre pressures should be checked at least once a month or before a long journey and should be adjusted for any additional loads being carried. Motorists [...]

Driven: Infiniti G37 Coupe S Premium

Like the ’09 model, the revised G37 Coupé is powered by smooth, sweet-sounding V6 petrol engine that pumps out a full 316bhp. With the optional 7-speed ASC transmission this means 0-60 in 5.9 secs and a limited top speed of 155mph. Performance figures are largely academic of course, but nonetheless, the G Coupé’s turn of [...]

Infiniti EX30 - September 2009 saw the UK debut of the second Infiniti model – the 3.7-litre V6 EX37. This high performance, all-wheel-drive crossover is considerably smaller than Infiniti’s big FX, and from July 201 [...]

Volvo V70 - Since its launch in 2008 the DRIVe badge from Volvo has been used to denote the marque’s most fuel efficient models. DRIVe was originally launched with C30, S40 and V50 models but Volvo has continued [...]

Infiniti G37 Coupe - The first G Coupé from Europe’s newest luxury brand went on sale in the UK in September 2009, but within five months Infiniti had already announced its next in line. Though similar mechanically, the 2 [...]

Honda CR-Z Coupe - Up until the Honda CR-Z came along hybrid-powered cars where the domain of the environmentally conscious, people very much proudly wearing their green heart on their sleeve as they disapprovingly look [...]

Volkswagen Sharan - It’s hard to believe that Volkswagen Sharan is now pushing 15-years old, yet here we are with only the third generation of the full-size people carrier. Volkswagen’s ‘don’t fix what ain’t broken’ appr [...]

Kia Sportage - Kia has moved its Sportage from straightforward SUV into the crossover market, taking on the Nissan Qashqai. It’s a bold move from Kia, but one which the new Sportage looks more than able to handle th [...]