7 & 9 Seaters

When choosing a seven seat vehicle or MPV there are numerous factors you must take into consideration before confirming your rental. If there are more than one eligible driver in your party then two smaller vehicles may be a better choice.

As Automatic Car Hire search multiple suppliers then we offer more MPV vehicles than any [...]

Current Car Hire Prices

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 [...]

The Easy Cost Comparison Engine

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 [...]

USA

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.

Fuel Economy

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 [...]

Automatic Economy Car Hire

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 [...]

Car Hire Sizes

Example Cars
Although example cars are given by our suppliers you could get a similar vehicle in the same category. The vehicle classification is made along passenger and luggage capacity which is very close along the range. You can appreciate that a supplier fleet although biased towards a single manufacturer will always have a wide range [...]

Car Hire Engine

Car Hire Engine sizes and examples
For Unleaded hire cars – Diesel rental cars will of course have higher sized engines in each class.

Car Hire 1.1 Engine

Budget sized car – Engine sizes of 900cc to 1.1 litre

Example car – Chevrolet Matiz

Credit Crunch Car Hire

With the Gaza Israeli conflict ongoing and the resulting tensions across the Middle East – oil prices are rising. Automatic Car Hire wonders if the cheap(er) fuel around now will last? Well other news today shows a UK exploration company Heritage Oil making a “world class” oil find in Uganda. Maybe further exploration is the [...]

UK

The UK as a major travel destination this year?
The weak pound could make this happen.

News from the market seems to back this going trend with Eurostar announcing record travel numbers with sales up 10.9% last year and passenger numbers up around the same.

 
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