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So it’s official: those long talked-about green shoots of recovery are finally growing. The UK economy is coming out of recession, and doing so not

Throughout the period when I was setting-up and running Contract Hire companies, both in the UK and Europe, the Holy Grail I was always searching

Take the motor shows in Geneva, New York and Shanghai – at each of them lots of novelties have been presented. Between the really new

E-vehicles? Do you remember the hype? International motor shows in Frankfurt, Detroit, Paris, and Tokyo… you name it! Everywhere we went: e-mobility all over the

One current challenge is to agree what is economic growth. On the one hand it may be an improvement in GDP; or a growth in

The word ‘residual value’ is not very often mentioned in a positive context. The buyer of a new car is losing money because although he

In earlier columns I contrasted the elements of fleet cost between the UAE and in more mature fleet markets. Cost is of course not the

According to Greek mythology, Hermaphroditus was the son of Aphrodite and Hermes. Due to some ‘divine’ manipulation, he became both woman (with the characteristics of

Thank God, predominantly we still buy cars because of our emotions and less out of mere rational considerations. This can be good or bad –