The Transport Select Committee wants to cut the cost of insuring cars by making claimants prove that they have suffered whiplash injuries. The group is also proposing a ban on the sale of customer information to third parties. Transport Committee chair, Louise Ellman, said that the price of motor premiums had been driven up by [...]

Car hire firm Sixt has said it is experiencing an increase in enquires from Brits about vehicle rental ahead of expected severe weather across much of the UK, as well as engineering work and strikes on Underground and rail networks. The company said that its switchboard was seeing a 72 per cent rise in calls.
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The UK’s leading car hire price comparison website, Carrentals.co.uk, has announced that it is teaming up with road safety charity Brake to launch an annual road safety campaign, called Road Sense. Each year the scheme chooses a particular safety issue and encourages motorists to focus on it. This year it is getting car tyres and [...]

Car hire firm Dollar Thrifty has rejected the latest take over bid by Hertz Global. The company said the Hertz had failed to meet with necessary requirements by a pre determined deadline. Dollar said that Hertz had not managed to protect against possible objections by the antitrust bodies.
Scott Thompson, chief executive of Dollar Thrifty, said [...]

The long-running battle for control of car hire firm Dollar Thrifty seems to have come to an end as Avis pulls out of the race. The company said it would not be bidding against rival Hertz because of the present market conditions. The company had offered $1.6 billion for Dollar, but industry experts say the [...]

Car hire firm Dollar Thrifty has said that it wants to see best final offers from Avis and Hertz, both of which are interested in gaining control of the smaller rival. According to Scott Thompson, Dollar’s chief executive, the prolonged uncertainty about the situation was in the best interests of nobody and that he was [...]

US car rental giant Enterprise Holdings has said it intends to grow its fleet of electric vehicles, and is the first car hire firm in the country to add the Chevy Volt. The company’s chief executive officer and chairman, Andrew Taylor, said that 1.6 million vehicles were introduced to roads in the US by car [...]

Motoring organisation the RAC has been sold to a private equity firm in the US in a deal worth £1 billion. The new owners are the Carlyle Group based in Washington. The RAC will join other well known brands in the group’s portfolio such as car hire firm Hertz and Dunkin’ Donuts.
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As the battle for Dollar Thrifty continues between car rental giants Avis and Hertz, The board at Dollar is asking shareholders in the hire company not to tender shares after Hertz offered a buy out deal worth $2.25 billion. Stockholders have been advised by the Tulsa based company not to take any action, even though [...]

Car hire giant Avis Europe has announced an increase in rental income over the period January to April this year. It has put much of the increase in activity down to a noticeable increase in business customers. Income rose 5.2 per cent for the company which offers vehicles under both the Avis and Budget Rent [...]