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Car gadgets are being released on a more frequent basis. The most popular can be fitted and unfitted easily which is especially important when you’ve got a car contract hire. The gadgets listed are the ones I think are the best.

Time to show some messages at the back of the car.
This is perfect for all of you who want to throw a message out to the drivers behind you and even better if it’s not appropriate. A must have for all people who love a bit of a joke.

Econav
This handy product actually tells you which is the best fuel-efficent route to take which is brilliant in the recession for saving that extra bit of money.

The in-car safe.
A perfect way to hold most of the other gadgets in. Although they are a great idea as they can be attached without the worry of any mess surely if your car gets stolen then your goiing to be a bit annoyed?

The alcohol breath tester.
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. Not sure that having it in the car is the best message to put out, but there you go.

Taxi service from Dad
I get constantly moaned at as my dad has to take me everywhere but there is no way of being able to afford the lessons! I will have even less money if this is put into place as it tells you exactly how much you have to pay for each lift you get. Great idea for dad’s to get their own back.

Fan that works in the car.
A great idea for all those cars that don’t have air conditioning. Great in the summer when the heat gets too much for a car without air-con.99 you cant go wrong at all.

Speed camera alerts.
A perfect gadget for the motorist who loves to speed, and who doesn’t. You have enough time to slow downl, a simply brilliant gadget. However it doesn’t tell you where the police are hiding, so be warned!

The famous Tom-Tom
Easily the best gadget out there. Simply brilliant for when you are having those arguments about who made the wrong turn, they no longer exist.

As all of these gadgets can be moved then if you are planning to be constantly switching cars there is no extra worry. 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.

There are several ways you can buy a car whether it’s from a retailer or contract hire. Games can be compared in the same way, but games aren’t out there to cost people thousands of pounds they are there to be had fun with, so what is the best driving game?

The main one that pops into my head is most certainly not what you would normally expect to see in a driving game. Although the most unrealistic driving game it is the most well known across the world. Got to be in the top three of all time and not just my personal opinion, its Mario Kart. Mario Kart really shows just how much fun you can have when playing a game, it doesn’t need to be realistic. You have a lot of choice in the characters, karts and bikes you can have in the game. Seeing someone get hit by a giant shell or run over by you when you are giant is the most satisfying element of playing Mario Kart and is what makes it so good.

Forza 2 is a brilliant driving game on the Xbox 360. This game is brilliant in that the customisation element is limitless, you can choose the coloour, wheels, hood, interior everything. You take realistic damage if you crash as well as having to make pit stops to take in fuel and change the tires. It doesn’t just have the top of the range cars it ranges from the Golf GT to the Lotus Elise. The handling is superb if you have a wheel for the game and feels like you are really test driving the cars. If you are going to drive at 100mph round one of the games corners then you will most certainly see the car crash into the barrier or another car.

Another good driving game is one of the Grand Turismo games as they look simply brilliant. These games have always been known for their reality and number five certainly does not steer away from this. From the BMW Z4 right the way up to the Ferrari the games graphics represent the cars in their true form.

it is exactly true in reality. The cars that you can get via this method are affordable. You can get car contracting on pretty much any model nowadays ranging from mini’s right the way to Mercedes contract hire. They are a great way to beat the recession as a lot of the cars are less than than £300 a month.

Its all about comparison and whilst games have all the cars you could possibly want its just too expensive to buy a brand new car.

I can tell you that whilst playing grand Turismo I must say that some of the cars look brilliant. Even when i’m playing the driving games which is quite a rare for me, I fancy myself one of these brilliant cars. Do the cars in games like this really have to cost you as much as it would first seem?

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 can be put into games nowadays are simply stunning. When seeing how far the market has grown in ten years for games it is perhaps easy to see why the graphics look this good. I still remember the days of F1 on the N64 and back then I thought they were the best graphics out there and that was nearly nine years ago.

After loading up the new GT5 it is amazing to see just how far the graphics have come in such a short time span. 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? The answer is, there is going to be a large aspect of advertising in the game! You can pick the car you want to race with and even choose what colour you want it to be. The wonderful thing about these games is that you actually pick what kind of car you might want in the game as well as the colour you may have and because the graphics are so mind blowingly awsome you really wont need to go and physically look at a new car. 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.

How far has car industry technology 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. The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is a brilliant place to start this off . 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. The first real driving game that I played was F1 pole position which was released in 1993 and at the time was an awsome game.

Four years later and a huge difference can be seen between the the last game and the newer version on the next Nintendo console. It is truly amazing to see the difference between the two games in such a short time period. The jump from 2-D to 3-D that took place during these two games is a huge leap in the technology. The next graphical jump doesn’t really occur until the Xbox 360 and PS3 come into the equation as the graphics on the games on these consoles look almost real.V.

Of course the transition did not just happen to the gaming industry, there have been many advancements in the technology of the car over the same period of time. I think that the best invention to come to the car industry in many years has to be the invention of the Hybrid car. The reason they are so good is that they save a hell of a lot on energy which is going to be pretty useful for when the oil runs dry. Some of the newer models of the Hybrid cars have system that powers the battery whenever you brake the car.

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

The Hybrid car is going to be huge when the prices of oil goes up from the inpending lack of it but for now, when buying a car you need one that looks brilliant and one that is affordable. Why not spend less on a leased car? The Audi contract hire looks pretty good as well as being as little as £214 a month.

The average credit card holder in Britain is now in over £2000 of debt. We spent years spending what we wanted when we wanted it but it’s clear from the slump in retail sales that the time has come to tighten our purse strings. Here are a few tips on how to save money and make the most of what you already have in the recession.

Mortgage: The mortgage is the most expensive outgoing for a lot of people. Your home is the most important thing you own, and something that it is certainly worth taking out a loan for. But that doesn’t mean that it’s an inevitable burden we all have to deal with. Shop around and make sure your deal really is the most beneficial one for you. There are thousands of alternatives out there, you just have to make sure you’re getting the most out of what’s available. Overpayments are a good thing – if you find yourself with a bit of extra cash to spare one month, don’t keep it aside to fritter away on things you don’t need, make extra payments on your mortgage whenever you can and you could save thousands on interest in the long term.

Credit cards: Just resist. Make sure you don’t spend money you don’t have, if you won’t be able to afford to pay it off that month, don’t buy it. Try to pay off any debt you owe as soon as you can (don’t just pay the minimum each month if you could afford more) and if you don’t think you can resist spending more on your cards again, cut them up. Always make sure you don’t go beyond your means.

Car: Owning a car is a really expensive business. It’s not just the cost of the car itself, but there’s road tax to consider as well as maintenance, insurance, servicing, MOT… And the list goes on. Think carefully about whether or not you really need a car. If you can’t live without one it might be worth considering a car contract hire agreement instead of buying one outright. You pay the car off in manageable monthly instalments and often they will throw in other additional extras like road tax or servicing costs as well. You just have to search for the best deal. And the best thing is that often the more desirable car you choose with contract hire the better deals you can get – you could find yourself with a car you would never have been able to afford to buy outright, even in better times!

Sell sell sell!: If you have clutter and unused items around your house, don’t just turn a blind eye to them or take them to your local charity shop. If you’ve got drawers full of clothes you don’t wear or gadgets you never did use, there is someone out there who will want them. Ebay is a wonderful thing, it’s quick and easy and once you get a bit of practise at how to advertise on there you could find that you could make a nice little extra bit of cash out of your old junk. Give it a go – you’ll never know until you try!

The French government have just announced a €6.5bn loan to support the country’s sinking car industry. It is the latest in a long line of similar measures taken by authorities around the world to protect jobs and the economy through the recession. A worldwide slump in car sales has left 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 industry receiving large amounts of money from the government to keep the 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 cutting almost 10% of its global workforce, including 1200 positions in the UK.

In these difficult times of recession, it’s hard to see how the car industry will recover. With things as they are, most people are feeling the strain and need 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 improving the motoring industry can’t do much more than bide its time.

But direct sales don’t necessarily have to be 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 a far greater 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 to worry about. Really, everyone wins!

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 could never work out how they did it, and now I’m finding myself wondering the same thing about Audi and their equally baffling methods of keeping afloat in the recession.

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

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

A more likely explanation is the fact that, while most people just can’t afford to think about investing in new cars at the moment, their old ones are still wearing out and needing to be replaced. 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 the best thing about contract hire and leasing is that the cost of the car is split into simple manageable instalments. You’re not restricted to considering only cheaper cars, or ones that you would have been able to afford to buy outright. In fact, the better car you choose the better deal you 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 by 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 – that other trick, the one with the rings, is done either with concealed gaps or simply slight of hand as the magician conceals the fact they were connected all along. And yes, my small childhood self was gutted when I finally found it out!)

So you want to look for a new car but just can’t seem to make your finances stretch far enough? Or perhaps you’ve already seen the car of your dreams, but 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 credit crunch and 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 discourage you – there is still another option. There is another way you could get the car of your choice, and you wouldn’t even have 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 thinking, there has got to be a catch, right? Well, in fact, no there really isn’t. 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, 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 every couple of years 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 the worries of buying outright – it really makes sense, especially now when times are hard. And who knows, you might even be able to get that dream car after all!

Over the last couple of weeks the UK has been hit with some of the most extreme weather we’ve seen in ages. The first week of February brought the heaviest snowfall we’ve seen for 18 years, causing schools to close and leaving over 6 million people stranded unable to get to work. Most public transport was disrupted or cancelled and many roads were deemed unsafe and closed off due to the icy conditions.

The continuing bad weather is a real worry for drivers everywhere, with the increased risk of accidents on the icy roads as well as all sorts of other problems caused by the extreme conditions. There have been a number of incidents of sudden heavy snowfall trapping drivers in their cars, while in other parts of the country the melting snow has combined with heavy rains and severe flood warnings have been issued.

All this is bad news for car owners, not just because of the heightened risk of driving on the roads, but also because a damaged car can be a costly business. With the recession affecting us all, most people really couldn’t afford to splash out on a new car if something happened to theirs. And that’s the real problem with owning a car. It’s brilliant until something goes wrong, then it can suddenly become really expensive. You might think it won’t happen to you, that you’re a careful driver who won’t get into that sort of situation. But as the last few weeks have proved, you can never help what happens on the roads, and you certainly can’t predict it.

The problem is that once you buy a car it becomes entirely your responsibility. Then the older the car gets the more likely it is to go wrong, especially in extreme weather conditions like those we have been experiencing, and the more it will cost you when it does. And even when you do get it fixed, a car only ever decreases its value over time so it still won’t be worth half what you paid for it.

The people who manage to avoid these worries are those who opt for a car contract hire deal instead of buying a car outright. It doesn’t mean the car isn’t yours, it just means that you pay for it in regular monthly instalments and often you get extra benefits thrown in like road tax and servicing costs. So if something was to happen, you wouldn’t have to foot the whole bill yourself. And the best thing is that when the contract hire expires after a couple of years you can trade the car in for a new one, meaning you’ve always got the latest updated model. And as you’ll always have a new car, it won’t have had time to wear out, and is less likely to break down in the first place!