Known only to a handful of people, the true identity of one of motoring’s most illusive personalities could soon become known to all, as The Stig prepares to publish his autobiography. Top Gear’s stunt driver has reportedly already written a draft of his memoirs and also found a publisher. If he does decide to go [...]
Car hire firm Sixt and Kuwait’s Wataniya Airways have signed a deal which will mean greater rewards for frequent flyers who rent vehicles through Sixt at various Wataniya destinations. Members of the airline’s Diwan programme will now earn between 500 and 1,000 miles every time the rent a Sixt vehicle. Loyalty marketing manager for Wataniya [...]
New research by car hire firm, Holiday Autos, suggests a quarter of all couples will end up having an argument about the best way of packing their belongings into the holiday rental vehicle, before the holiday even begins. According to the study, men tend to pack more than their partners when travelling to the beach. [...]
One of Europe’s most popular car hire firms has decided to offer its customers the chance to cancel their rental reservations free of charge if they find themselves affected by a possible strike by airport workers. Unite, the airport workers’ union, last week said that members would be rejecting a 1 per cent pay rise [...]
An initiative set up in the county of Norfolk could see British native trees become a viable alternative to speed cameras. The Department for Transport has supplied £70,000 worth of funding to see if planting trees on approach roads to a number of Norfolk towns will slow down motorists. The idea is that the mature [...]
If consumers are going to be encouraged to invest in electric vehicles they will have to be shown that they can have confidence in the cars’ batteries, according to analysts. A recent report predicts alternatively-powered vehicles will make up more than 20 per cent of all those sold in 2020. Analysts at the firm Eurotax [...]
The decision to deactivate roadside speed cameras across Oxfordshire is worrying a safety partnership which claims to have seen a dramatic rise in the number of speeding drivers. The Thames Valley Safer Road Partnership has been monitoring the speeds of drivers in two 30mph locations where the camera is no longer present, but the speed-recording [...]
The Competition Commission is to investigate the acquisition of Streetcar by US rivals Zipcar after the Office of Fair Trading said it was concerned that the deal may breach competition rules. The deal was sealed earlier this year and saw Zipcar grow its fleet of short-term rental vehicles by 1,400. Initially the US based car [...]
Life for UK motorists could become even more difficult than it already is if the price of petrol rises as forecast. The rising price of crude oil could see petrol jump by as much as 4 pence per litre over the next three weeks according to chairman of RMI Petrol, Brian Madderson. RMI represents two [...]
Market leaders in car hire, Europcar, has announced a new tool which will help UK drivers avoid the soggy sandwiches, pitiful pies and dreadful dinners so often associated with roadside service stations. The car rental experts have teamed up with some of the country’s top culinary experts to produce the Roadside Gastro Guide. The new [...]
