Filed Under (Automatics) by admin on 25-01-2010
Summer 2010 will be upon us before you know it and to guarantee your Automatic car rental for your travels you should book early to avoid disapointment. Why?
- Automatic Car Hire searches multiple suppliers to bring you the cheapest guaranteed automatic transmission vehicles world-wide.
- Car rental fleets are smaller this year as suppliers anticipated much lower business amounts due to the financial depression of 2009. Early numbers though predict higher than expected demand.
- Automatic vehicles are a small proportion of the average rental fleet world-wide (USA and Canada the exception)
- All our suppliers allow amendments and cancellations – so you can book early with confidence.
So don’t delay and book today to secure your vehicles world-wide with our market leading car rental comparison search.
Filed Under (Car Hire) by Carl on 14-08-2009
Car Hire Pricing High
The reasons to use a cost comparison engine to book your upcoming rental are stacking up with reports of very high pricing direct with suppliers.
While recently sitting at Newcastle International Airport I spoke to one couple coming to Dublin for their daughter’s wedding. I was shocked to hear that from supplier Dan Dooley they had an economy car lined up for over ₤400.00 for 11 days rental. A search for eleven days on our engine in August comes up with a host of options with a lead in car from HolidayAutos for as little as ₤275.00. To be fair to Dan Dooley I did a search on their website for the same period in August (20th – 31st) and got a price of ₤327.50.
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Filed Under (Automatic Q & A) by Carl on 18-05-2009
Explaining the Car Class selection on the car hire search box
As we are Automatic Car Hire we have defaulted the search box to the obvious selection so you only get guaranteed automatic vehicles from a host of suppliers. We don’t just stop there though – through our XML car rental technology we pull all the vehicles available through the largest car hire brokers on the market.
So choose from multiple car hire classifications or seach all and note the icons on step 2 which show what each vehicle has included and guaranteed. From air conditioning, number of doors, passenger capacity and of course transmission.
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Filed Under (Automatics) by admin on 09-03-2009
Automatic Car Hire
Let Automatic Car Hire take the leg work out of finding the right rental car for your upcoming trip. We search multiple suppliers worldwide bringing you the best choice and prices available for your selected dates. Unlike other car rental sites we show you who you are dealing with and even give you the choice of adding in refundable Zero Excess insurance at market leading prices.
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Filed Under (Car Hire) by Carl on 11-02-2009
The ease of driving an automatic is widely considered to be a the expense of the performance of a manual transmission. In the UK for example, all rental cars are less than six months old (with strict mileage restrictions also in place) you can expect a hire car with the latest automatic transmissions.
So forget you age old misconceptions about automatic car hire and try it. An automatic car is normally more expensive than a manual transmission rental car so why not search both types with us? Simply change the transmission option on the search engine to the right to both. We will then search multiple brokers and suppliers and sort all the rental cars in price order.
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Filed Under (Car Hire) by Carl on 06-02-2009
USA
If you are booking in the USA you are guaranteed only automatics in the car rental fleets. Over in the States automatic transmissions are the norm and subsequently the automatics found in the European fleets were originally intended for Americans.
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Filed Under (Car Hire) by Carl on 04-02-2009
Fuel Economy of cars can be measured in many forms for c02 per km to miles per gallon but in today’s climate it all comes down to cost. The UK government has launched a new service for you to browse the full car market to see on a number of different measurements the most Eco and wallet friendly cars available from your local showroom.
So if you take the cost of the fuel and averaged it out over your first 12,000 miles – how much in fuel has it cost to run the car?
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Filed Under (car hire news) by Katie on 02-02-2009
From Automatic Car Hire
The UK has ground to a halt with exceptional weather set to continue for the rest of the week. Automatic Car Hire searches multiple suppliers who all have helplines should you have difficulty picking up your rental car. Even if your flight has been cancelled or driving conditions are impossible you can certainly cancel or delay your rental car.
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Automatic Car Hire
All additional extras available through our suppliers are shown in the booking process. If you have any special requests for your hire car then full contact details are available after booking.
Remember that car hire fleets are varied and depending on the size of the rental location you may get a choice at the rental counter for vehicles of the same classification. Thus if you have a preference for a make, model or colour then you can take care of that at the desk.
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Filed Under (Car Hire) by Katie on 28-01-2009
Super Mini Automatic Car Hire – it is hard to say but you can rent them here!
Ten years ago you would be looking at a compact sized car to get an automatic gearbox. Anything smaller would be underpowered for an automatic gearbox, so what has changed?
Back then the only automatic gearbox available for smaller cars would be a three speed. Couple this to the average power of 65 BHP and you have a pretty awful driving experience. Now with improved tuning and performance from smaller engines you can expect around 100 BHP coupled to a automatic gearbox with at least several more gears than the tri-gear boxes of a decade ago.
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