Archive for August, 2009

Holiday Car Hire Turns Bad

A recent vacation break to Miami almost ended in disaster when the police stopped our car due to a broken tail light.
My girlfriend had persuaded me to take a last minute package holiday to Florida. We’d been lucky enough to get a really cheap last minute fly-drive deal that gave us 7 nights to [...]

General Motors Show Off New Car Lineup

The giant of the motoring industry, General Motors, who own brands like Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac, Pontiac and Buick, have reveasleda line-up of new car £. Only last month General Motors recovered from 40 days of bankruptcy where the US Government invested $50 billion into the company, of which is now 60% owned by the taxpayers.

Now [...]

Driver Gets Fined For Avoiding An Emergency Vehicle

We all know that if an emergency vehicles comes up behind you when driving, you should try and let it through. If you don’t let the vehicle through, you could be stopping the services from saving lives.

Normally, when an emergency vehicles comes up behind your car, it’s easy enough to avoid as you can simply [...]

Save Money as a Landlord

If you’re a landlord, you’ll acknowledge that particularly in today’s economy, costs have been rising steadily, and the creation of new laws like the compulsory Tenancy Deposit System and the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) don’t precisely help with the penny saving.
In a crunch, any little helps, so we’ve put together a list to help you [...]

When Can You Buy Someone a Car as a Gift

Cars are rather an expensive present for any individual, cars are essentially something that that anyone would appreciate if it was given to them as a gift, but when is the right time to give a gift to a person, let us take a look at a few exceptional occasions.

Birthdays
Birthday presents are all really well [...]

Car Scrappage Scheme Renewal Being Considered By Mandelson

Back in May, the Government launched a scheme that would reward car buyers when they scrappage their old bangers. Oddly enough it was called the ‘Car Scrappage Scheme’ and it gave car buyers 2000 towards a new car when they scrapped a car that’s more than 10 years old.

The overall cost for the scheme was [...]

General Motors Start Selling New Cars on eBay

Earlier this year car maker General Motor, who own brands like Pontiac and Chevrolet, filed for bankruptcy. However, from July this year, they have managed to break out and have stopped receiving bankruptcy protection.

Now that they have moved on, they are trying some new methods for being in more car sales.
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Why the Secondhand Automobile Market Suffered

Over recent years the used cars for sale sector has witnessed a drop in the amount of cashflow that is made. Used car turnover for dealers was basically down around £24 billion in 2008 as almost half a million less cars were sold then the previous year.

We wholly acknowledge that this was due down to [...]

How Driverless Cars Could Eclipse the Market

Cars are all important in everyones life-time, you literally cannot do anything in this day and age unless you have a beneficial mode of transport, but life is so hectic that these days people genuinely do not have the push or impulse to drive. The is why there has been a drop in dispatch of [...]

Heathrow Airport Introduce Driverless Transport System

Heathrow are attempting to reduce congestion on the transport buses by introducing a new traffic system for the airport. The system being created is the first of it’s kind, it will feature over 20 electric shuttles that will have no need for drivers.

The 21 shuttles will be limited to a two and a half mile [...]