Daimler has announced that its smart car2go will be launched at the beginning of 2011 in Hamburg. The launch will be in association with car rental company Europcar, and the initial roll out will be 300 vehicles. The new car2go vehicles will be available for rent in the city centre where demand for the smart [...]

A recent survey by leading car hire firm Europcar suggests that for many Brits, leaving for their summer holidays’, simply stepping out of the front door causes untold stress and anxiety. Nearly a quarter of those polled by the rental company admitted to suffering Pre-Holiday Tension (PHT).
Nearly half a million of us claim that getting [...]

Leading UK car rental firm, Europcar, has teamed up with some of the country’s foremost food experts to produce a culinary guide for motorists who are fed up of the usual fare offered at motorway service stations. In a recent survey, Europcar found that 95 per cent of drivers thought the choice, quality and price [...]

Over the next few months, Europcar customers visiting outlets of the car hire specialist throughout the UK and Europe, will be able to use the new Microsoft Surface system to plan their onward journeys. Surface consists of a touch-screen 30-inch monitor incorporated into an interactive table. Europcar has developed specialist software to run on the [...]

Germany’s second largest airline and Europe’s leading car hire provider have announced that they will be joining forces to create a new Premium Partnership which will result in customers of Air Berlin being given the best deals available with Europcar.
Since 2008, Europcar has been a topbonus partner with Air Berlin. Now that it has been [...]

Europcar has launched its new WeDeliver service, aimed at providing customers with the option of booking a vehicle and having it delivered to as well as collected from their front door. Europcar’s marketing director, Catriona Lougher, said that the new service was perfect for customers living in cities, especially those who own a car, but [...]

Virgin Blue Airlines has launched its latest car hire site which allows Internet users to find and choose from a broad range of rental companies, vehicle types and prices in key local and international destinations.
The launch of the new website coincides with Virgin Blue’s recent decision to make car rental firms Hertz and Thrifty its new [...]

The world’s greatest football tournament is nearly upon us and for recession battered car hire firms in South Africa that is very good news. Although there has been an improvement in figures over the Christmas holidays, car rental companies are now fixed on preparing themselves for the demand for vehicles the World Cup is expected [...]

Research conducted by the Abrams Consulting Group has revealed that in 2009 the average price of a car rental at an airport had increased by a staggering fifty-one percent on a year earlier. The figures are particularly significant when compared to the rest of the travel industry where average prices tumbled in a bid to [...]

In a bid to help customer’s beat the winter blues Europcar has announced its New Year half-price sale. The half price deals will be available at many Europcar locations across the U.K. including airports and will cover a range of vehicles. The sale is aimed at giving customers who are counting the pennies after the [...]