The Best Car Finance Blog In The World

This blog is number 1 out of 134 million when you search Car Finance Blog on Google worldwide! Something that Saga’s CEO should have found out before seriously letting down yours truly. If you are a journalist receiving these blogs by RSS feed watch out for a major revelation any day now that involves Zurich Insurance.

None of us particularly likes to deal with finance, except me of course but then I’m a bit nuts! But finance is like a critical ingredient in a delicious cake. Get it right, choose the right ingredient used in the correct way and magic happens. Get it wrong and all that time and effort and expense results in a total disaster. When customers come to me many haven’t heard Read more »

This blog is now number one on Google search out of 103 million worldwide. This makes me the one that so called experts seek advice from. Accountants question me then charge customers to pass on the information that I provide. Dealers and F&I managers use this blog to answer questions from customers and the press come to me for comments whilst the press take the RSS Feed . It all adds to the feeling by many that I am the UK’s foremost car finance expert.  Read more »

Not only is my blog still number one in the world on Google, Yahoo, Bing, MSN, Ask Jeeves and AOL when you search on the expression ‘car finance blog’ (on Google I am number one out of 77 million I’ve now found that I am 27th in the world on Yahoo if you search the expression ‘finance blog’ out of 1.6 billion. Not bad eh!

If you carry out a worldwide Google search you will find this blog, http://www.thebestcarfinanceblog.co.uk the number 1 in the world out of 76 million.

Another amazing piece of news is that my blog is number one! When I was much younger I had aspirations to become a singer and maybe top the charts, make a fortune and have lots of screaming teenagers throwing themselves at me whilst I disappeared off down the road in my E Type Jag. OK, with a voice like mine it was never going to happen and I’ve dated a few nice ladies over the years and of course driven some Read more »

Our ‘gadget’ this week is an iPod App that finds parking spaces for you. A group of drivers, fed up with getting parking tickets, came up with the solution. They have joined forces with the AA to come up with parkopedia. The app asks where you want to park then gives details of  street, metered, covered and private parking spaces then uses google maps to find the exact location. It also provides cost of parking in each Read more »

What is the benefit in kind tax position of an employee who is provided with a hire car? I could go into lots of detail as it depends on whether the employee has a company car provided and whether he has it for 30 days continuously. Whether the car is better or worse than his company car and if it’s not to replace a company car then how much of the mileage is private! Oh this is so boring, If you really want to know look it up on Google or something! I’ll just move on before I bore myself to death! By Graham Hill

Whilst this has little to do with vehicle finance I read with interest the way that Google withdrew from China as a result of the Chinese government hacking into Chinese user’s emails and other online information in order to control the way that its citizens think and act. I then read that Google have found a new way to monetize emails. Most of us are aware of adwords, these are the sponsored ads that appear when Read more »

One of the things that makes a car look really ‘scruffy’ is a badly scratched or scuffed alloy wheel and yet it is so easy to damage but just as easy to repair. There are a number of companies that will offer a local service. They will call round and either fix the wheel(s) at the roadside or take the car away and bring it back later with the wheel(s) looking like new. This is quite useful to know because if you return a lease car Read more »