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Verdict Staff
Fleet Deals
Arnold Clark Finance, LeasePlan and Lex Autolease have won places on a £100 million car lease framework agreement issued by the Common Services Agency, based in Edinburgh. The agreement covers the leasing of an unlimited range of cars and associated services in terms of servicing, maintenance, roadside support and repair of the vehicles during the term of each lease, and may be used by all NHS Scotland Health Boards and Special Boards, and by Aberdeenshire Council.
Tony Worthy: Motor Month
New car registrations rose by 38.9 percent in December 2009 to 150,936 units Since its introduction, the scrappage scheme has accounted for over a fifth of all new car registrations and is estimated to represent 20.8 percent of the December market.
Across the pond
Auto Finances Forecast Winter 2009 has good news and bad news for the coming 12 months.
Are we too clever for our own good?
Peter Cooke discovers personal contact is low on the agenda for used-car salespeople in todays age of electronic communication It has long been claimed that at least part of the financial services crisis was caused by too many executives not fully understanding the structure or risks of the financial products they were selling to their clients, and not explaining those products clearly.
Tony Worthy: Motor month
New car registrations were up 57.6 percent on a weak 2008 to 158,082 units in November, in line with November 2007 volumes The year-to-date registrations however, were down 8.8 percent at 1,844,063 units but the full-year market likely to exceed 1.98 million units
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Across the pond
Sanjiv Yajnik trumpets his call to action, online customer service needs to improve to retain customers. Marcie Belles, in association with Auto Finance News
Behind the figures
Although boosted by higher revenue and gross margin, Honda Finance Europe plc saw pre-tax profit decline by over 90 percent in the year ending 31 March 2009.
Software and systems update
operator First UK Bus aims to reduce fuel consumption by 500 litres a year per bus with a recently introduced technology-based service by GreenRoad.
On the move
The post of managing director at Toyota Financial Services (TFS) UK plc has been filled, with Doug Gillies, former operations director at the captive, stepping into the role vacated by David Betteley upon his retirement in October.
Across the pond
US View: Signs of recovery, HSBC exits the auto sector, foreign interest in the ABS market increases, social media