Car hirers may want to avoid depending solely on satellite navigation systems such as GPS or mobile devices after an ambulance driver in West Midlands got in trouble for doing so. Birmingham City Hospital employee Avta Suniara faced the prospect of almost losing his job after being stopped by police for heading down the wrong [...]

‘Crash for cash’ scammers are earning an average of £16,000 per accident, according to the body set up to combat this type of fraud. Deputy Chairman, Richard Davies, of the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) has estimated that fradulant ‘crash for cash’ claims amounted to about £350 million per year. He said that ‘Crash for cash’ [...]

A survey conducted by car hire giant Europcar has revealed that Britons love their cars more so than drivers across the rest of Europe. The survey revealed that nearly three-quarters of drivers in Britain love having their own car, compared with only 60 percent of the other six countries that were surveyed. Europcar surveyed over [...]

Car hirers can anticipate a new Hertz brand next year as the car rental firm plans to revamp its corporate identify, including new logos, ads, uniforms, fleets and remodelled rental outlets. The car hire giant has said that the idea behind the massive makeover, which had been 18 months in the making, came from a [...]

In past summers, rental cars have been easy to come by, but in the summer of 2009, due to the global credit crunch, families were paying over £400 per week for their car hire in locations such as Spain and France. The situation came about as car hire firms were forced to operate with smaller [...]

Car Hire firm Europcar have just announced launch of their newest service, a new mobile internet website to keep up with the changing ways in which customers search for car hire services. Recent statistics showed that 8 million of Britons access the internet from mobile devices, up by a massive 42% on last year.  In [...]

One of the UK’s largest car hire firm’s, Sixt, has launched a new rental service from the Abu Dhabi International Airport. The openingof the new hire car outlet allows passengers toaccess world-class car rental services with the added benefits of booking using Sixt’s website from anywhere in the world. Sixt, which has over 4,000 outlets [...]

Car hire firm Zipcar has launched a new iPhone application that will allow customers of the car-sharing company to reserve their car hire through their mobile handsets and even open the doors and start the engine of the car with the device. Zipcar is a unique concept that allows customers to use the service for [...]

Leading European car hire firm Europcar has teamed up with Accor to launch a new online booking system which is aimed at making life easier and to offer more customised solutions to customers. The new booking feature will provide customers the convenience of choosing from three proposed pre-selected vehicles once they have confirmed the reservation [...]

This week close partners Europcar and Renault have announced the signing of a new agreement that is intended to speed up the accomplishment of shared innovative solutions as part of Renault’s “Zero-Emission” vehicles program. The agreement was signed earlier this week at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt and drew a lot of interest from [...]