Fleet Sales Show An Increase of 19% In March 2010

Records show that new car sales to businesses and fleets increased by nineteen percent in March of this year as opposed to sales in March 2009. The figures were recorded by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

In 2008 a determinations to reduce stock and short term working meant that manufacturers cutr back on fleet activity but since then moving into 2010 figures show that car companies are now back to their default mode and all fighting to gain fleet registrations. Two factors have been siognificant however throughout this.

Ford realigned the prices of Galaxy, S Max and Mondeo by around ten to twelve percent . This wasn’t a automatics responses to a drop in sales, it spanned a nine month period.

In 29009 Ford entered discussion with CAP & Glass’s on how to slash listy prices without affecting residuals and by demonstrating that transactions prices are the same and remain unchanged they are confident in this.

There also seems to have been a structural shift in the market where car manufacturers have been reporting that corporate fleets are requesting short term contracts as they are understandably reluctant to commit to long term contracts with the current UK economy

Companies looking to save money in the now and in the future can certainly do so by investing in vehicle tracking for their fleet. There are an abundance of features that can be added to any basic tracking system saving fleets time and money for all their operations and processes.