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A few years ago you recommended that I get a Toyota Prius as a company car – brilliant advice. Now, four years later, I’ve been offered the vehicle for £9500, but yesterday the price went up to £10,660....
My company Skoda Superb estate was wrecked in December last year and since then I have been driving around in an Octavia estate from the company pool, which took me 17,000 kilometres in six months from...
For the first time in 14 years I am about to get a company car with a job I start on 1 July. The criteria below make for a wide ranging choice. I do about 25,000 miles per year and have a family with three...
I've been looking at leasing a 1 Series after finding that my employer offers some good deals for this particular car, but I'm unsure over whether to get a petrol or diesel. My dad has always said if...
I am about to select a company car and, due to the number of miles that I will be travelling (14,000 or more a year) I am looking at a diesel, but if possible would like an automatic. This, combined with...
I'm looking for a recommendation for a company car choice that will keep my cost down, suite a family and that will suit 25k - 30k miles motorway driving a year... My question is whether I need to be...
I'm looking for a hatch-back that's one size smaller than my current Toyota Avensis D4D, is petrol or hybrid (less than 10k pa mileage), has a large boot (for my golf clubs), is good build quality plus...
I'm due to change my current company car soon and need something more spacious for the family. I think a 3 Series is likely to be too small so have looked at the new Mazda 6 saloon and SW, Peugeot 508...
I need to replace my company BMW 3 Series soon and I now need a car that can take a large and growing dog. The cars I am interested in are the X3 18d SE, Audi Q3 Sportline, the Mazda CX-7 Sport, or for...
One of our company cars is an 07 plate MINI Cooper S with about 80,000 miles on the clock (mainly motorway). A colleague recently had a couple of warning lights show (the ABS and something else) whilst...