Automatic Car Hire

Multiple Car Rental Companies in One Search

We at Automatic Car Hire believe in true cost comparison. We built the technology and commercial relationships to bring you the easiest and quickest way to find your ideal car hire.

With multiple brokers we have more coverage and better vehicle selection than any singular car rental supplier. With each broker using different suppliers, we are also confident of having the majority of the car rental suppliers on our searches.

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Fuel Policies

They Do Differ From Supplier to Supplier

Once upon a time car rental was a similar package no matter where you picked it up. The fuel tank was full, you had an insurance excess on CDW / Theft and you had to return the vehilce full with fuel. If you didn’t you were charged a premium cost for the fact the rental company had to fill it up.

Well then for Car Hire Spain it all got very competitive, the cost of holidays reduced and a handful of rental companies thought of a great way of getting the edge over the big boys. Thus was born the concept of giving zero excess on insurance, charging the customer for the fuel in the car and asking them to return it empty.

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Keep The Old Ones on the Road

We at Automatic Car Hire are big fans of Pimp My Ride, even the British version with that ridiculous presenter. No not for the “round the table” meeting where they decide to do the interior in pink and attach a snooker table to the boot but for the refurbishment of classics.

Yes from the BMW 3 series which came out as a gangster classic to Happy Mondays “dance” man Baz’s classic black cab. To see the metamorphosis a few grand can do to the legions of tired icons is a joy to watch and makes you think a little.

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Ryanair Destinations

Car Hire and the
Facilities

I recently went on holiday to Italy, renting a campervan from Bologna Forli and taking it down the Adriatic Coast. One thing that did strike me was the size of the airport and facilities on offer.

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On the car select screen through Automatic Car Hire you can see every single product available directly through any of our car rental broker partners.

What this means is that specialty vehicles with additional extras such as Satellite Navigation are clearly displayed and guaranteed on that vehicles. This is something we can do while other larger comparison sites such as Travelsupermarket.com have to group their cars by size meaning you don’t see the true car model until you click through the supplier’s sites.

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September Deals

All Brokers Discounting For The End of Summer

As we head in September you can be sure of some large discounts from all car hire brokers featured on Automatic Car Hire as they look to make the most of the end of Summer 2008.

With temperatures across Europe still above average with generous amounts of sun now must be the time to pack a suitcase and escape abroad?

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Off Road?

Check your Car Hire Insurance Details

We all dream of taking our rental car (4×4 or not) off road for some real action, possibly traversing the beach or even tackling that mountain track – well unfortunately you may not be insured to do that.

Automatic Car Hire takes another look at car hire insurance and the exclusions found in rental car companies insurance clauses. This time we look at the industry standard non allowance of taking rental cars off public highways.

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7 Seat Vans

Automatics Available

7 Seat Vans are traditionally more difficult to confirm than other types of vehicles within the fleet due mainly to high demand, low stock and the cost of the vehicles themselves.

You would think that the chance of an Automatic MPV Hire would be low due to the additional cost of an automatic transmission. Automatic Car Hire searched our car hire brokers to see what is out there on the market in key destinations

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Booking With Us

One search, three steps and you are booked!

To learn Irish or to read every Harry Potter book would take ages, but booking a rental car with Automatic Car Hire will only take you minutes.

Here Automatic Car Hire give you the reasons why we are the best choice to search the market in seconds.

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Car Hire Germany

Home of the autobahns with no speed limits

Germany – inventor of the motorway, automatic transmission and home of a host of car companies which own quite a few other car companies world-wide. What else makes Germany a first class car hire destination?

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