March 11, 2010

Vauxhall Astra Review From Review Road Record

Filed under: Vauxhall Reviews — mark @ 12:46 pm

It is usual  for reviews to be done by a third party, but this sound and looks like it has been commissioned by Vauxhall and is very specific to the design of the 2009 Vauxhall Astra. They go through the dynamics of each part of the Astra from the headlights though the lines of the shape. the discuss storage within the Vauxhall Astra. They claim to have asked 400 people of what items would they would store in their cars, to design the right storage areas in the correct proportions. Not the best review, so we will look at other Astra reviews to compliment this going forward.

Looking for Vauxhall Astra Leasing

or Vauxhall Astra Contract Hire

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March 10, 2010

What Is Benefit In kind

Filed under: Official Information — mark @ 1:18 pm

Sometimes shortened to BIK, this is the tax figure that the government feel your company car  allowance should be set at. In better words in if the car you drive is paid for by your company, the government see this as personal benefit and will tax you for that privilege. This is still applicable if your company leases its vehicles instead of buying. This can also be applicable if you are the business owner as well as the driver of the car.

The actual BIK figure is based on the specific car you are driving and is now calculated by the CO2 emission figure and the retail price of the vehicle and not the business miles driven as in previous years.

Each vehicle is put into bands from 10% upwards (based on the vehicles CO2 emission) and that percentage is than multiplied by the new  retail price of  that vehicle.

So for example.

If the vehicle you choose falls within the 10% bracket and has a retail price of £10,000 then the benefit in kind is 10% of £10,000 = £1000.

The actual cost to you is then based on your tax rate, either 20% or 40%.

If you are on the 20% rate, ten you will pay £200 tax on this car per year.

If you are on the 40% rate, then you will pay £400 personal tax on this vehicle each year.

It is worth while noting, that buying the car at a cheaper price than the retail index price, will not reduce your tax liability. Many car manufactures put the “Benefit In Kind Figure” with their price lists now to keep things a bit simpler for you.

You can use the official Government Benefit In Kind calculator for company cars here

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March 7, 2010

Google Rules The World Even Car Lease

Filed under: news — mark @ 10:49 pm

there was a time when to buy a service or and products you visited the business direct or picked up the picked up the phone. Now most people go to the internet first and search for what they require. So what has this got to do with car lease or Google.

Well Google does more than half of the searches in the world through their search engine and according to some sources 90% of searches here in the UK are done through Google. In short that means 90% of all car lease searches are also delivered via Google, so they really do rule the world of car lease. Of course Leasebam relies on these internet searches, so that you the consumer can find the right leasing deals.

Recently Google have started the process of rewriting their search engine form the bottom up, rather than the updates that have normally occurred. rebuilding the system means they can deliver even quicker searches and of course they are currently promoting that we the webmasters also do the same.

Whilst this update, rewrite or interim period (whatever we want to call it) is occurring, then there just is no certainty that any website will keep its rankings and be found on the internet. For some reason consumers are still using Leasebam, even though we see seem to be on a search engine roller coaster ride.

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March 4, 2010

No Recession In Geneva

Filed under: news — mark @ 4:12 pm

2009 saw a lap lustre Geneva Motor Show which in itself was a result as many motor shows throughput the world had been cancelled, as manufacturers pulled in their purse strings. This year has seen something of a spring in the step from manufacturers who now feel just that much confident in the future. This can be seen at the Geneva Motor show 2010, where you can clearly see the state of the industry in one place. One Key Point Indicator, is the lack of hotel rooms reported by Gavin Green in his Geneva report, which pretty much  states that most people were there and looking to the future.

The show was not dominated by low cost Korean cars that have profited most from the scrappage scheme, with high price supercars through to the respected German manufacturers, telling us they have adapted to their customers needs, form styling down to fuel economy. In previous years, we may have seen the manufacturer telling us what we should have, but that is what happens in an economy where every sale counts towards survival, rather than nice to have higher profits.

The atmosphere was better than last year and that is just what the motor industry needs, positive people thinking positive, even if the financial situation is still with us.

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The New Seat Leon 2010 Range

Filed under: SEAT Reviews — mark @ 3:43 pm

Seat have come a long way since Volkswagen took this Spanish car manufacturer  over and reformed quality and style. The Seat Leon could be seen as a cheaper Golf and in fact has the same range of engines, but the styling is more sporty making the Seat Leon a sure fire winner. Auto Emotion is the key phrase of Seat (pronounced See At) key phrase with technology to get excited about and there is no dount that the Seat Leon 2010 range is more exciting than ever, with very sporty looks.

This is a advert for the new 2010 range and if you are looking to

Lease a Seat Leon then you can use Leasebam or for Seat Leon contract hire you can use contracthirebam.

You cab see the advert below.

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March 2, 2010

The New Reg 10

Filed under: news — mark @ 9:09 pm

Its the second day of the new registration plate and I can’t helps seeing them everywhere. Of course some car buyers have been waiting some time to get hold of their new car, so don’t expect them to be in the garage. It is a busy time for car lease suppliers also, as many of their customers try to time any contract with the new registration. Business owners however sometime will not get their new lease cars until next month, when the new tax year arrives, to keep their returns as simple as possible.

Bearing in mind that some cars, especially Audis, Merc’s and BMW’s need ordering well before the delivery date, yesterday has been planned for months in some cases. Of course it is better than the days when only one registration date was allowed per year, normally in August. car retailers and car lease brokers would do a huge sum of their yearly business in one day a nightmare for many, having 2 registration days has spread out the pressure.

Still not sure what happens next year when the one’s reappear, obviously the rag 51 has gone.

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