Jeep Buyer

Car gadgets are becoming increasingly more popular. The most popular can be fitted and unfitted easily which is especially important when you’ve got a car contract hire. The gadgets below are the ones I like the most.

The light up car signal.
A great way to tell people what you really think about them, even better write out how's my driving, I dont really care. A great way to have a laugh in the car.

Econav
These are brilliant as they actually calculate the route which is the most fuel efficient, although they really cant compete with the tom-tom they are great for saving a bit of money on fuel.

Safe that is locked to the inside of the car.
A great idea to keep the other gadgets locked up. Great idea but what happens if your whole car gets stolen?

A breath tester to read the alcohol levels.
It's great to see if you have gone over the limit or to just have a bit of a laugh when your out not in your car to see how many units you have had. Although a bit of a laugh to have is it really the best gadget to have in the car.

The cab for dad
My dad is always moaning about giving me lifts anywhere as I really don’t earn enough money to pay for the lessons! Well I will have even less as this is a novelty taxi meter that checks how far and how much you have to pay. Brilliant for dad’s not so brilliant for everyone else.

A fan to keep you cool.
A great idea for all those cars that don't have air conditioning. A good idea for when it's just too much in the summer.99 you cant go wrong at all.

The gadget that warns you in advance.
A perfect gadget for the motorist who loves to speed, and who doesn't. Goes off whenever you are near one which is perfect as you have time to slow down. The police still roam the roads and it cant tell you where they are!

Tom-Tom, it speaks for itself
The best gadget by far. Great for when you want Homer Simpson to be saying Doh! whenever you have missed a turn as well as avoiding arguments.

Most of these gadgets are removable which is brilliant if you are always changing cars. Car contract hire is a brilliant idea and you can carry the gadgets from perhaps a Punto all the way to as top of the range Audi with a Audi contract hire.

Just how far has the car industry come in recent years? From being a luxury way back in the 1930’s to the cheap affordable way you can buy them now using car contract hire it is amazing just how far they have come.

The best way for me to explain how far they have come is to talk about games. I’m going to go back to the days of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System or SNES for short. I really could perhaps go back further than the SNES but as it was really the first proper console I played it is best to cover the changes after this. F1 pole position was really the first driving game I had ever played and for 1993 it is a brilliant piece of gaming.

Four years later and a huge difference can be seen between the the last game and the newer version on the next Nintendo console. The graphic jump between the two is simply astounding. The 2-D to 3-D jump that took place between these two games was huge and it shows. The next jump skips the next generation of consoles and forms itself onto the PS3 and Xbox 360 as some of the graphics on the driving games on these consoles are so realstic it is truly unreal.V.

Of course this hasn’t just happened in the gaming world, many things have been tried and failed or been made into a huge success over the last few years. Without a doubt the best invention to come to the industry of cars has to be the Hybrid car. When the world's oil supply runs dry Hybrid cars will most certainly be one of the main solutions to solve the problem, at least in the car business. As well as this recent technology enables them to run for longer by putting charge into the vehicle whenever you break.

Some of the other technology in the car is fantastic such as the touchscreen's and the never to be forgotten tomtom system.

The Hyrbid car is only going to increase in sales (after the recession that is) and will certainly be the car of the future, but for nowl, you need a car that is both decent and afforable. Leased cars can work out a lot cheaper? The Audi contract hire looks pretty good as well as being as little as £214 a month.

When playing the new Grand Turismo, I really do have to say how awsome the cars look compared to their reall counterparts. Sometimes when you’re playing you really fancy yourself one of these absolutely astonishing cars. However, when you really think about it, are they affordable?

With car contract hire they can most certainly become available with as little as £214 a month. When playing games like grand Turismo even I, the person who vowed never to get a really top notch car am thinking about purchasing one. The graphics that are put into games, especially driving games really put the player into the action. If you think how far it has come in ten years it is truly amazing. Playing F1 on the N64 nearly ten years ago I remember thinking that you really are not going to beat the graphics of the game.

When playing the Grand Turismo it is amazing to see just how far the graphics have come over just a few years. It is certainly arguable that you can't compare the N64 playabilty with the PS3's brilliant graphics, then again that could just be my opinion of playing too much N64 when I was a kid. However it was not until I started to play the games that actually showed the cars for how they look in reality that I realised I might actually consider buying one of these cars.

Are these games simply made to advertise all the top cars of recent years? Well of course they are! it is truly amazing how you can pick from so many different car names as well as choose the unique colour for you. In other words you can look at what car you fancy buying and the dream colour without even having to leave the safety of your living room. Fantastic!

As well as this, with hires like Audi contract hire for ridiculously small amounts of money a month, the cars you see in games can truly become your own.

The Audi logo with the circles always reminds me of that trick magicians do, you know the one where they link separate solid metal rings together into a chain. As a child I never could work out how they did it, and now I’m finding myself wondering the same thing about Audi and their equally impressive methods of staying afloat in the recession.

At a time when most of the car industry is on its knees, I’m sure I’m seeing more Audis on the roads than ever before. I’m sure it’s not my imagination – suddenly it seems everyone is driving these sleek upmarket cars, despite the obvious financial issues.

I suppose it could just be that the type of person who can afford to buy Audi cars probably had more money in the first place, and are less likely to have been hit hard by the credit crunch. Maybe it’s just that those who do still have spare cash to spend on posh cars want to flaunt it, but I doubt that can really be it. Well, not all of it anyway!

A more likely explanation is the fact that, while most people just can’t afford to think about investing in new cars, their old ones are still wearing out and need replacing. And if you need a new car but can’t afford to buy brand new, the logical solution is to look at car contract hire instead.

And of course the best thing about contract hire or leasing is that the cost of the car is split into simple manageable instalments. You’re not restricted to only looking at cheaper cars, or ones that you would have been able to afford to buy outright. In fact, the better car you choose the nicer deal you can usually get. So if you always wanted an Audi but couldn’t quite justify buying one, then Audi contract hire could let you get your dream car despite the credit crunch.

Judging from the increasing number of posh cars around at the moment, it would seem people are beginning to wise up to this cunning method of tricking the recession! (Oh and in case you were wondering – the other trick, the one with the rings, is done either with concealed gaps in the rings or simply slight of hand as the magician conceals that they were connected all along. And yes, my childhood self was gutted when I finally found that out!)

So you want to start looking for a new car but you just can’t seem to make your finances stretch far enough? Or perhaps you’ve already found the car of your dreams, ut know there’s no way you’ll ever be able to afford it. You’re not alone – the motoring industry has been hit hardest of all by the recession and car sales have reached an all time low. It seems no one can afford to think about purchasing a new car right now.

But don’t let that put you off – there is another option. There is a way you could get the car of your choice, without even having to pay upfront for it. Car contract hire or leasing agreements are a great way to choose the exact car you want and you only have to pay one manageable monthly fee.  

I know what you’re probably thinking, there has got to be a catch, right? Well, actually, no there’s really not. Sure you have to sign a contract but you get to choose from any car on the market, including those that would normally be out of your price range. In fact, the more desirable the car is, the better deals you can get. It’s not like buying a new car where the value decreases with time, most contract hire agreements are based on your projected usage so they take wear and tear into account and when the contract ends you can trade it in for a newer model.

Choosing contract hire will usually also help with the running cost of having a car – often the road tax and servicing costs are thrown in to the monthly instalments so you won’t find yourself suddenly landed with huge repair bills. And being able to trade the car in regularly means you’ll always have the latest model so it’s less likely to break down.

Basically, it’s a really beneficial and financially viable way of getting a new car without any of the worries of buying outright – and it really does make sense, especially now when times are hard. And who knows, you might even be able to get that dream car after all!

The French government have just announced a €6.5bn loan for the country’s sinking car industry. It is the latest in a long line of similar actions taken by authorities around the world to protect jobs and the economy through the recession. A huge worldwide slump in sales has left car manufacturers struggling, and millions of workers are in danger of losing their jobs.

In the UK there have already been significant job losses despite the government lending large amounts of money to help keep business afloat. A number of factories have had to close temporarily and the Japanese carmaker Nissan has become the latest to announce that it will be making job cuts of almost 10% of its global workforce, including 1200 positions in the UK.

In these times of recession, it’s difficult to see how the car industry is going to recover. With things as they are, most people are feeling the strain and having to keep a close eye on their finances. It’s safe to say that buying a car is the last thing on most people’s minds, and until the economy starts to improve the car industry can do little more than bide its time.

But getting direct sales is not always the only option for car dealers. If the problem is that people don’t have enough money to buy cars upfront, the answer could be to offer more car contract hire deals where customers lease their car on a monthly basis until the cost has been paid off. The availability of these deals means that buyers have more choice when it comes to cars – they have the option of choosing a more expensive car that would normally be out of their price range, which means more money for the car manufacturers in the long run.

Contract hire is a great deal for the consumer too, not only does it mean you get a wider choice of more desirable cars but the payment is in manageable instalments and there are often loads of other benefits thrown in. The contracts often include extras like servicing costs and road tax, so there’s less for customers to worry about. Basically, everyone wins!