Take a guess. Which vehicle had the largest share of the new-vehicle lease market in the fourth quarter?
The answer: the Honda Civic, which comprised 3.2 percent of all new-car leases, according to an infographic shared by Experian Automotive.
Next up was also a Honda: the Accord with a 2.6-percent share. Two Toyotas followed (Camry at 2.5 percent, RAV4 at 2.4 percent), then the Ford Escape and Honda CR-V were tied for fifth with 2.2-percent shares of the new lease market.
Rounding out the top 10 were the Ford Fusion (2.1 percent), Toyota Corolla (2.1 percent), Chevrolet Silverado 1500 (1.9 percent) and the Nissan Altima (1.9 percent).
If you haven’t experienced automatic emergency braking yet, get ready: it’s weird when your car takes over, but at the same time, reassuring.
The system use on-vehicle sensors such as radar, cameras or lasers to detect an imminent crash, warn the driver and apply the brakes if the driver does react quickly enough.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety estimate that by voluntarily equipping their cars with automatic braking, the industry is speeding up the adoption of this life-saving technology by about three years, which will prevent 28,000 crashes and 12,000 injuries.
EVs from Motiv Power Systems offers ideal solutions for vocations where driver is behind the wheel 8 hours a day doing urban pickup or delivery.
Fleet Logistics, Europe’s largest independent fleet management provider, has set up a preferred dealer network in the UK covering all major nameplates and with a set of new contractual agreements.
The new preferred dealer network, which comprises just 11 dealer groups and dealerships, provides UK fleet customers with access to 25 different makes throughout the UK, and includes all the most popular fleet manufacturers.
Fleet Logistics’ Head of UK and Ireland, Sue Branston, said the new initiative was designed to formalize the existing dealer network that Fleet Logistics already had in place in the UK and to complement some clients’ desire to maintain their choice of dealer. “This is one part of a new supply chain strategy that we are developing for our markets in Western Europe and beyond.
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