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The words ‘blind spot’ come to mind

You can place your order for this £132K carplane/planecar now although it hasn’t flown yet and it isn’t scheduled to be available until ‘next year’.
The Terrafugia Transition is a two-seater plane that at the touch of a button converts into a road-legal car. It takes its maiden flight next month and is scheduled to hit the showrooms by next year. It takes just 15 seconds to switch between flying and driving and is powered by a 100bhp petrol motor. It’s not yet available for car leasing.
The company says, “The majority of our customers are retired or near-retired couples who want a fun vehicle to putter around the country in”. Presumably they don’t want to fly then?
Not for us to pooh, pooh futuristic ideas. No, all we’ll say is:

January 31, 2009 at 1:31 pm | Car Leasing News | No comment

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No, I know sir, its not as big as Obama’s

Things were looking rosy for the 100% electric new THINK city car. In the race to get electric cars to market, the Norwegian start-up Think Global AS was one of the front-runners. It snagged big-name venture-capital backing and in 2008 manufactured about 350 of its latest model, a two-seater, plug-in city car. It planned to ramp up production to 10,000 units this year.
Then, at the end of October last year, the company took its shiny new model to Downing Street to be blessed by Gordon. Shortly after, in mid-December, Think became one of the green technology world’s first major casualties, filing for bankruptcy protection. All is not lost though because, in mid January, the company secured an interim financing commitment and was able to call back the first batch of employees from the lay-off it had to declare.
Could this be the first electric city vehicle available through car leasing? Keep away from Downing Street would be my advice.

January 27, 2009 at 7:19 pm | Electric Cars | No comment

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She’s a little darlin’ guv and just wait till you see the cheap finance

Are you a taxpayer? Are you a car buyer? Are you a car loan user? Yes to all three? Then maybe you will soon be lending yourself the money to buy your own car.
Under a scheme proposed by the government, lenders who provide finance for car purchases would get access to cash from the Bank of England’s special liquidity scheme. In effect the people who lend out the money will get state cash – and we know where state cash comes from don’t we.
Here’s another novel idea. Instead of paying income tax to the government, why not use it to fund a car leasing scheme for yourself. I feel sure HM Taxman would understand – just say it’s the credit crunch mate.

January 26, 2009 at 7:32 pm | Car Leasing News | No comment

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The winning Golf six – polished and sparkling

Personal leasing is a great way to get your hands on the new VW Golf and if you do, you’ll be driving the winner of the Best Small Family Car in this year’s What Car Awards presented at the London Grosvenor House Hotel earlier this month.
The winning model is the Volkswagen Golf SE 1.4-litre TSI 122 PS 5dr and this is the third consecutive year the Golf has won.
In presenting the honour, Steve Fowler, Group Editor of What Car commented: “It takes a special car to win the Small Family Car of the Year award three years running – and the Volkswagen Golf is exactly that. You can thank evolution; this is the sixth-generation Golf, which takes the excellent fifth-generation model as its basis, and polishes every part until its sparkle would make Mr Sheen jealous. Whatever you need your car to do, the Golf does it – and brilliantly, too. That’s why we believe it’s the best small family car you can buy.”

January 24, 2009 at 5:24 pm | Volkswagen | No comment

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