Choosing a leasing company for your business car leasing

Choosing a leasing company for your business car leasing

So, you have decided on a car, you have even decided on a colour and now you need to choose a leasing company for your business car leasing.  Whether you are the driver or the business owner, before you get your car, you are going to need good, honest advice and help. At CarLease UK, we have been established since 1958 and have never veered from a course of honesty and fairness.

To get you the best lease deal we can for your new lease car, we work with the three main funders in the leasing industry, Network, Lex Autolease & ALD Automotive.  Along with our fantastic admin team and account managers we will guide you through every step of the deal.

Firstly, we have as many as 9000 prices on-line; the price represented always being the best value for that car over the time period that you have selected. These prices are for the car only but we can add additional services such as maintenance and GAP cover.

Your new lease car will be brand new and delivered to your door, it will have a full UK manufacturer warranty and will have road side assistance/break down cover included for between one and three years.  New cars are more reliable, the tyres are brand new and your company image is enhanced plus you can choose to swap your car every 2, 3 or 4 years.

Purchasing a car outright seems easy at the outset, but what when you get to the end? Well if you lease from CarLease UK, we will arrange for your car to be picked up and your new lease car will replace it. Just think, no tyre kickers, no dodgy bank drafts.  Even when a purchased car has long gone, you will still be writing it down on your books for years to come, compare that with full write down during the period of your lease.  The lease is fixed of course so the depreciation is built-in and not a surprise at the end, plus, as leasing companies buy cars for less , even with a small mark up for them included, you can easily end up paying out less.

We admit to being a bit Eco at CarLease UK. We stay on top of new developments in hybrid, electric and economical diesel cars and bring them to the market where possible.  Taking the Eco route for your company cars brings benefits of lower running costs, increasingly so as fuel costs rise and benefit in kind will be reduced for your staff if you choose a green car. We regularly cover these topics on our blog.

Eco-leasing the way forword as Diesel, Hybrid and Electric improve

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Massive advances in diesel technology have reduced output of poisonous gases by as much as 90% in just the last five years. These advances and low sulphur fuels have called into question the necessity of banning cars from our city centers   Efficiency and tax benefits, including benefit in kind,  give you every reason in the world to consider eco-car leasing for yourself privately or for your business, but don’t forget to include some of the more efficient diesels in your calculations.

Cars like the BMW 320D and the latest VW Golf  are now so economical that they easily qualify for the CarLease UK list of eco-cars .  Extend this to include the Toyota PriusHybrid and its plug-n brother and even the Chevrolet Volt and the list grows to include some seriously economical cars.  Soon we will have very competent electric cars such as the Nissan Leaf and Renault’s fantastic range of electric cars.   Nissan are going to build, starting real soon, the Leaf in a purpose built factory in Tennessee and first indications are that the lower price of the car will be well received. In fact, initially allocation of the Leaf, Japanese made, has sold out many times over.

It seems that whereas the all-electric cars are booming in the US, the hybrid units from Vauxhall/Chevrolet are not selling as well as expected. This is good news for Europe as production will be allocated to here and maybe drive prices down to compete head on with the Prius.

Ford of course have initially gone down the 1.0 petrol route, with our test here.  They are though just about to launch a number of Hybrids in Europe.  They will be marketing them along with a newly developed APP.  The one litre engine drives superbly and relies only on known technology to achieve great consumption figures and convenience of use.  The UK take up of this engine in the Focus and Fiesta has been really good and FORD deserved their engine of the year award.

Ford hybrid APP becomes reality as Eco Car leasing steps up a gear

Posted on April 2, 2013 by phil

Suppose for a minute, you lease a new car and part of your decision process was to save money on your running costs.  Yes, its complex deciding on which one you should have and eco-car leasing is better populated with options than ever. Now, for example, you will probably have included some of the BMW diesel range which can compete head to head with hybrids, plug in hybrids and full out electrics.

Ford, whose EcoTech 1.0 petrol engine we have testedhere, are running a competition for a programmer/APP designer to come up with an interface that allows them to check levels, settings  and range/economy on their smartphone.

They have labelled it the Personalized Fuel Efficiency App Challenge and hope to get ahead in the race to make hybrid/electric cars less complex to the end user.

Fords sensitivity has come about because of recent cases in the US where both the C-Max and Fusion have returned poorer consumption figures than Ford advertised.  In the United States this is rather more serious than it is in Europe, where the word indicative is spread liberally about the brochure to protect a manufacturer.  Without doubt the cars are capable of returning consumption figures equal to the published data. But, hybrid vehicle consumption is affected much more by driving style than petrol and diesel cars, so Ford set about coming up with a scheme of optimizing a driving style and the APP idea was born.

The App will be expected to look at live and short term historic data to analyse a driving style.  This way it can help to work to an optimum style.  In time, the APP can be extended to include warnings such as fuel level, battery level and temperatures it may also be extended to incorporate route planning and optimizing the route and for sure it will in the US be used as proof in an ever more litigation littered society.

Aluminium based eco battery to come

Posted on March 28, 2013 by phil

Rumored to be Citroen, a car maker has signed an exclusive deal with the Israeli development company Phinergy. The change to Eco-Car-Leasing from this will just be fantastic.   Their break through has been in the manufacture of battery technology that uses only fresh air, water and aluminium.  Now before you get excited about using up metals, bauxite, the base of aluminium if far and away the most common of all metal bases.

The C1 is being used to test the battery

The battery is capable of up to 1000 miles on a charge by creating electricity which is stored in and used from a lithium ion battery.  A prototype is running, in the form of a Citroen C1 but is anything up to 3 years away from production. Already the system is refined enough to have its own APP which calculates your range at any time and shows it on your phone.

Water fuel?

Water is used for the electrolyte through which ions pass and give off energy as the move across the battery and charge the li-0n battery to power the motor.  Aluminium provides the anode and air is the cathode, the metal is slowly used up as the system generates.  So far in tests water fuel is added every 200 miles.

The technology was proven as long ago as 2002, but it is only recently that it has been made to work on this scale. The theories have proven to be correct. The batteries will be lighter than present technology and low on use of exotic materials .

Hyundai, so long a conservative car builder, is again pushing the outer technology boundaries with a fuel cell car going into production. On the back of  2 million miles of testing, the  Tucson, or IX35, is nearing production as Hyundai will be using its own cells and all its own technology.  The test vehicles are covering 400 miles on a full hydrogen refill of 5 kg.

Given that this is a very likely alternative to fuel oil, be it diesel or petrol, in the future, then Iceland will surely become the next middle east of the world as it possesses a massive proportion of the world’s naturally occurring hydrogen.

Best Car Leasing deals from CarLease UK

Posted on March 27, 2013 by phil

After Christmas each year the motor trade takes a little time to settle down and special offers begin to appear that are good enough for us to offer to you.  We class these as ourbest car leasing deals and will always have six at the top of our front page.

Fiat 500 at £98.40 per month

Right now we have the FIAT 500 1.2 ColourTherapy  at £98.40 per month.  Cute only begins to describe this little beauty. It drives well and is really well built, its economical will actually carry four adults easily.

Citroen DS3 at £131.71 per month

Second we have the Citroen DS3,the Airstream D Style at £131.71 per month. One of this years really popular cars, the DS3 sells as quickly as we can get them.

Vauxhall Astra Lease Deal

VW Passat Estate Lease deal

Thirdly, we have the VauxhallAstra Diesel Hatch at £158.36, the 1.7 cdti 16v Ecoflex 130 Exclusive. Its economical, carries 5 people and is great value.The 16 valve motor is absolute gem and the new chassis drives really well, dare we say Golf like.                                                                                         At CarLease UK, we think that a Car Leasing company should always have an estate  in the special offers and we have the VW Passat BluemotionHighline right now. At £218.94 per month it is the cheapest estate of this quality that we have had for a long time.

Range Rover Evoque

Finally , the Audi Q3 2.0 Tdi SE at £259.99 per month and the Landrover Evoque at £347.04.  In 2.4 eD4 Pure spec, its great value, great looking and fabulous to drive.

Renault Eco car leasing range is expanded as its Electric range grows

Posted on March 26, 2013 by phil

Renault Europe have confirmed that they have no intention of marketing their Zoe Electric car in the US.  The Zoe is a really tricky car and about as advanced as you get right now.  In Europe its added to the Twizy,  the Fluence ZE and of course the first electric van the Kangoo ZE.

In Europe, Renault Eco car leasing range is expanding and it  is offering a deal that includes a home charging station, the subsidy being provided by Europeanelectric car grants/subsidies.

In the UK right now, Renault are paying 25% of the cost and British Gas are paying 75% of the cost of the home charger.  Customers running electric  cars are charging at home 90% of the time. The installed Renault system will boost charge to 80% of full charge in just 30 minutes.

There is an additional charge of £70 a month for battery rental, the cut even point being for this approximately 6000 miles per annum use of an efficient diesel at todays fuel prices. But, the massive advantage of the battery rental scheme is the fantastic back up that Renault provide with it.  They have thoughtfully set up a deal with taxi companies all over the UK and in the case that your battery runs flat, you are picked up.

The Kangoo ZE has a 5 cu meter  at a maximum of 650 kg. With a range of over 80 miles, city delivery and pick up companies should find the ZE ideal.

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So much more than your leasing broker

Posted on March 25, 2013 by phil

CarLease UK have consciously changed to offer the services and vehicles that our customers are asking us for and welcome your questions or posts.

To start with, we have a warm, comfortable office that you can come and park at and visit us, dealing face to face. We know from our clients that you like this.

We have been in the motor industry for  four decades and are based centrally to cover the Northwest, being close to Manchester, Liverpool and Warrington. You can contact us viaTwitter, Facebook  and we post video footage on YouTube of lots of your deals.  We are customers ourselves most of our lives so we expect you to have questions, as leasing companies offer so much more than van deals and car lease deals.

To start with, we are authorized to help you through the questions that you will have aboutGAP, something which we will do impartially.  We have prepared a CarLease info page to cover most commonly asked questions and recently updated the website to include some of latest partner deals including Mercedes-Benzspecials and VW deals.