Editor’s Blog

With The Met Office predicting a freezing Easter weekend, Swinton warns against leaving your car running to warm it up as it could get you a frosty reception from insurers.

Since coming into power in 1997, Labour has increased fuel duty by 19%, yet car ownership in the UK has increased by 25% suggesting that our love-affair with the car continues unabated

2008 marks the centenary of award winning motor group dealership, Perrys. The company started trading in 1908, and went on to open its first Ford dealership in 1912 when you could buy the Model T Ford in black or black!

Confused.com, the UK's leading insurance price comparison site, unveiled plans last month to make someone in the UK an instant millionaire simply by requesting a home and/or car insurance quotation - however, lady luck resides in the most unexpected places!

Siemens Financial Services (“Siemens”) has sold its single invoice factoring business to the Bibby Financial Services Group. The deal has been completed for an undisclosed sum.

Symposium Events' Fleet Management Forum will be taking place on Thursday 8th May at the CBI Conference Centre, London WC1. It is the first conference to take place after the 2008 Budget when changes to Approved Mileage Allowance Payments (AMAPs), Corporation Tax and Employee Car Ownership Schemes (ECOs) will be announced.

GROUP20 the SuperCar Club, is celebrating its first full year by offering a strictly limited number of six month memberships entitling members to drive its supercars for up to 30 days for a price-leading £4,995*, or looking at it another way, the equivalent of just £166 per day (*Subject to VAT and GROUP20's Fair Play policy).

Experian®, the global information services company, and Gemini Systems, a provider of integrated solutions for the automotive industry, have teamed up to provide dealers with a brand new solution to make data cleansing even easier and more time and cost effective.

Accident Exchange, the UK's leading provider of accident management services and replacement vehicles to the automotive industry, is delighted to announce its entry in the 2008 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship Independents' Cup, as BMW Dealer Team UK. The team's championship assault will be led by Henley-in-Arden's Mat Jackson.

A multi-million pound deal between Vauxhall Commercial Vehicles and Burnt Tree Vehicle Solutions will see the rental company take 2,370 new Vauxhalls into its fleet during 2008.