17 February 2009 – Contract hire news – smart car costs less to lease than to park
Contract hire rates on a brand new smart fortwo coupe micro hybrid drive could cost you less a month than average daily town centre parking charges and could enable you to take advantage of hundreds of free parking spaces instead.
Anyone who has to pay to park their car on a daily basis could easily be racking up over £100 a month on parking tickets. If you have to park in the centre of any of the UK’s major cities, the price is likely to be double this figure.
Picture a different scene where instead of having to stick your car in the multi-storey car park each day, you can simply turn your smart fortwo into a side road on the outskirts of town and nip into a gap between two badly parked cars that is little more that half a car’s length in width.
Almost every road has them and if you do a bit of ground work you can find out which roads are just outside the town’s parking permit zone (if it has one) and then find yourself free parking within minutes. You may have a bit further to walk, but the savings you could make, not to mention the fresh air and exercise you would get, certainly gives you something to think about.
The low cost smart car leasing specialists City Vehicle Leasing currently have contract hire rates on smart fortwo that cost less than the price of average daily parking charges in town and city centre car parks. You could drive a 61hp smart fortwo coupe pure for just £90 a month on personal contract hire or £78.99 a month (plus VAT) if you are a business user*.
For private motorists it works out at just £2.99 a day*. Less that most urban car park’s daily parking charge. So if you can find those small spaces between parked cars that no one else can get their cars into, you’re quids in.
As new smart fortwo 61hp and 71hp models come with micro hybrid drive as standard, you’ll save yourself a packet on running costs too. The smart fortwos mhd’s stop/start function saves up to 29% of fuel around town and 11% on combined urban and extra urban driving. This means the 71hp fortwo can do 65.7mpg on the combined cycle.
Motorists who regularly drive their cars into the London congestion zone, will also be exempt from charges due to the fortwo’s emissions of just 103g/km. Ultra-low emissions, means ultra-low road fund license too – currently just £35 a year.
For more information on contract hiring a smart fortwo coupe call City Vehicle Leasing on 0844 375 3263.
*Finance available subject to status. Examples shown are on 2-year contract hire with three months rentals in advance. Cars must be registered by the end of March 2009. Full written details available on request.
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