We at Automatic Car Hire are now offering the very latest in satellite navigation rental. Available through our car hire engine is the award winning Tom Tom GPS unit for navigation on unfamiliar roads in the UK, across Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil or The Middle East.

In inception it is only available to UK users of our services where for a low rental price we will deliver the latest Tom Tom GPS right to your door for your use for the dates you require. Need it last minute? Place an order by 4:00 pm Monday to Friday and we will guarantee next day delivery by 1:00 pm to your home, office or other place of choice as long as the Tom Tom GPS unit can be signed for. We use Royal Mail Special Delivery meaning the unit is tracked and delivered with exceptional service.

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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 (20^th – 31^st) and got a price of ₤327.50.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Our refundable excess product through Insurance4carhire means you wont have to worry about the excess on rental vehicles. Simply add the product on step 3 of our booking engine and you will be covered for the excess on the rental car plus additional extras such as the tyres, keys and windscreen.
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