This week our Question of the Week comes from a customer called Tom who is wondering about charges for additional drivers.
Tom says:
I’m just wondering why car hire companies charge extra for additional drivers, even if the driver is your wife?  I am renting a car in Spain and plan to share the driving with my [...]

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From today, Bulgarian car hire customers who show courtesy to pedestrians in the country’s capital will be rewarded in an unusual way.  They’ll be handed a salami sandwich.
In a new road safety initiative dreamt up by authorities in Sofia, officers will present drivers with a free salami sandwich if they give way to pedestrians at crossings. 
In a city [...]

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Within Portugal there are many writers and poets that are famous. There have also been many famous quotes from these writers such as “The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have mor…

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From October 1st, Budget Avis Rent A Car will enforce a ban on smoking in all of its rental cars hired in the US and Canada. 
But why the sudden switch to smoke free cars?
According to Larry de Shon, vice president of operations at Budget Avis , the company is answering calls from customers to make rental [...]

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We all know what a kerfuffle this year’s shortage of car hire in Spain caused.  You paid inflated prices or you were left high and dry without a set of wheels to get you from town to beach.
And now it emerges that it was all down to one man, Joan Mesquida.
It has just come to [...]

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With England’s World Cup qualification in the bag and the Republic of Ireland well on their way to a play-off or maybe even automatic qualification (fingers crossed), interest in trips to the host nation is peaking.
Already football fans heading to South Africa are being warned to steer clear of bogus travel packages and ticketing scams.
The [...]

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No one got the answer last week! Here’s me thinking the questions were far too easy! The answer to last week’s question, What was the name and when was the first county of Portugal founded? Was 868 AD and the county was Condado de Portucale.
For the Ex…

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This week on Friday Drivetime we are going back to the 60′s. Some amazing artists came from this wonderful decade, including one of the most influential bands of all time, The Beatles, who have recently released a discography of all their studio albums…

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Here’s our latest update from Auto Europe’s Commercial Director for the UK and Ireland, Peter McAree:
2009 has been a strange year for the car hire industry. We’d anticipated a change in our customers’ habits during the recession, but instead of a slow…

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This week sees the final chapter in our serialisation of The Auto Europe Car Rental Roadmap, the online guide to every aspect of hiring a car. They key point to remember about car hire insurance is that it is not the same as car insurance policies for …

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