The offer is currently available on all Doblo Cargos and Comis registered to business users until 31st March, providing an increased level of support and a stronger value for money proposition.

The Doblo already comes with 3 years’ AA Assurance cover with includes Roadside Assistance, Home Start, Relay, Relay Plus & European cover, and now with unlimited mileage warranty instead of the usual 120,000 miles. Terms and conditions remain unchanged.

“This unlimited mileage warranty offer on Doblo Cargo further underlines the confidence that Fiat Professional has in this award-winning vehicle,” says Sebastian Fedrigo, Director, Fiat Professional UK.

“Since its launch, Fiat Professional’s Doblo Cargo has been very well received for its quality and reliability, both by the media and by customers. This enhancement to the warranty package provides customers with yet another reason to purchase this class-leading van.”

The Doblo is a former International Van of the Year, Fleet Van of the Year and is the What Van? Light Van of the Year for the second consecutive year.

Prices start from £14,495 on the road, which gets you the entry Classic model, with insurance group ratings of 7E, making it one of the most cost effective C-segment cars to own and run.

The original i30 was first launched in 2007, being the first of Hyundai’s popular ‘i’ range. The i30 introduced new standards of driveability and quality, with the all new i30 building on the achievements of the car it replaces. Also improving on Style, Technology and Interior Quality.

The New i30 leaves you spoilt for choice, being available in Classic, Active, Style and Style Nav trim levels, with a choice of Diesel or Petrol engines, in Automatic or Manual transmission. As well as including Hyundai’s ultra-efficient 1.6 litre diesel engine that emits less than 100 g/km CO2.

All the 1.6 CRDi models come with the efficient Blue Drive technologies, featuring the Intelligent Stop & Go system. The powerful yet efficient unit is available in outputs of 110PS and 128PS also boasting the lowest CO2 emmisions figure for a diesel car in its segment of 97 g/km.

Tony Whitehorn, President and CEO Hyundai Motor UK, says: “The new generation i30 represents another leap forward in terms of Hyundai’s design, refinement and build quality. Coupled with Hyundai’s generous standard specification along and industry leading back-up service and support in the form of the Five Year Triple Care assurance, the new generation i30 truly represents the complete package for customers looking for a high-quality vehicle at an affordable price.”

New standard features on the i30 include voice-activated Bluetooth, LED daytime running lights, multi-function steering wheel, electrically adjustable and heated door mirrors and one-touch indicators. Safety systems added as standard across the range include, Vehicle Stability Management, Emergency Stop Signal and Hill-start Assist Control. Active trim level adds 15″ alloy wheels, cruise control, rear parking sensors and Hyundai’s dynamic Flex Steer system, which gives the driver the option of three settings namely: Comfort, Normal and Sport.

All ‘Style’ models benefit from 16″ alloy wheels, dual zone climate control, front parking sensors, rain sensing wipers, cornering lights, automatic headlights, automatic de-fog system for front windscreen and electrically folding door mirrors with LED indicators. Topping the trim will be Style Nav, which brings a fully integrated touchscreen satellite navigation system and rear view parking camera.

The Cee’d was immediately handed to a Slovakian children’s charity called the Red Nose Clowndoctors, the Cee’d is the 600,000th version of the Zillina factory’s first car. The factory is also currently producing the Sportage and the Venga.

The plant has recorded a 10% year on year increase in car production and also a increase of 12% in engine production during 2011, its produced 252,000 cars and 359,00 engines. The factory also plans to increase production of cars to 285,000 cars this year.

Eek-Hee Lee, President and CEO of Kia Motors Slovakia commented “Kia Motors Slovakia has achieved an important milestone in its history with the production of the millionth car. We decided to donate it to an organisation which will bring pleasure to children during their stay in hospitals”.

The plant produced 101,000 units of the Sportage which represented  40% of overall production. 103,000 Cee’d models were produced, which was 41% of the total production and 11,000 Kia Venga models were also produced from the site. The reminder of 2011 production of 36,000 units were Hyundai’s IX35, manufactured up to June 2011.

The site launched a third shift this year and have increased the number of employees to 3,900. The company are currently preparing themselves for the second generation of the Cee’d model during the second quarter.

The popular Acenta model has benefited from some changes to the exterior, customers will now get new ‘diamond cut’ two tone 16 inch alloy wheels instead of the previous 15 Inchers. They will also get body-colured door mirrors and front fog light surrounds which makes the exterior changes quite noticeable.

A new seat fabric with blue stitching, has also been added to the interior providing customers with a more premium feel, climate control, automatic headlights and rain-sensitive wipers are also included as a standard feature.

The next grade, the best selling N-TEC has also received some improvements, in addition to the updates to the Acenta specificatiion, the new N-TEC+ incorporates rear parking sensors, darkened rear privacy glass and the touch screen “Connect’ satellite navigation system. Nissan’s ‘Connect’ system provides a full digital music connectivity package with built in CD/radio, iPod gateway, Aux-in, USB connection and Bluetooth phone connection.

Even though all this equipment has been added buyers can own a Nissan Note for less than they would have thought. Prices start at £11,200 for a Visia model, the new Acenta model at £13,000 and the new N-TEC+ model for £13,500.

The first of the new notes should reach dealers in early February.

The new three door Rio comes in the same ultra- efficient engines, with the same  trim levels and the same external dimensions as the five door, which went on sale September last year. The new 3 door comes with a £600 saving compaired to the equivalent 5 door and has a coupe like profile to add to its already appealing qualities.

You can choose from four engines, two petrol and two diesels that are carried from the 5 door version. The highly acclaimed 1.1 CRDi engine delivers a performance of 74 bhp and 170 Nm of torque available from a mere 1,500 rpm and all versions deilver co2 emissions of 99g/km or below and fuel economy of a least 74.3mpg.

The Stop & Go EcoDynamics technologie is a standard feature on all new Rio diesels, including the 1.4-litre models. Economy and emission figures are 70.6mpg combined and just 105g/km of Co2.

The are also two petrol engines in the new Rio, include the 1.25-litre Kappa engine which made its debut in the Picanto, this engine develops 83bhp and 121Nm of torque.  You can also choose Kia’s 1.4 Gamma engine this develops 107bhp and 137Nm of torque, buyers also have a choice of an automatic gearbox as an option to the standard manual.

All of the petrol manual versions of the new Rio comfortably exceed 50mpg, with CO2 emissions below the EU’s 2012 corporate average targat of 130g/km, even the automatic 1.4-litre version is capable of 44.1 mpg in mixed driving.

The Trims are offered in the same four easy to understood trim grades as the 5 door version, badged ’1′, ’1 Air’, ’2′ and ’3′. The entry model ’1′, standard features include Bluetooth, RDS Radio and CD Player, 12 volt power socket with MP3 compatibility, boot light, tachometer and trip computer, 15 inch steel wheels, headlamp levelling, speed variable front wipers, body coloured bumpers, door handles, door mirrors and daytime running lights. The ’1 Air’ includes the same features but also has air conditioning.

With the ’2′ grade trim, you can also include 16 inch alloy wheels, front fog lights, chrome radiator surround,  premium black cloth upholstery, a cooling glovebox, electrically adjustable heated and folding door mirrors with side repeaters, leather on the steering wheel and gearshift and a centre console armrest.

The top grade ’3′ adds heated front seats, six speakers instead of 4, automatic protection-type headlights, cruise control, rain sensing wipers, automatic air-conditioning with auto de-fog, LED daytime running and rear combination lamps and 17 inch alloys with low-profile tyres.

Of course all Kia Rios come with seven years or 100,000 miles warranty on parts and labour this excludes wear and tear items and is subject to certain conditions.

The Kia Rio 3 door starts at £9995 for  a 1.25 ’1′ version, and the top version 1.4 CRDI ’3′ EcoDynamics starts at £14,295.

Mitsubishi have achieved this positive result in spite of a very convoluted economic environment in the region, it was also the end of scrappage incentives in  markets like France, the effect of austerity measures in Greece, Spain and Portugal or Ireland as well as as a very fluctuating customer confidence overall.

As well as severe economic circumstances for European customers, Mitsubishi also had to endure the consequences of both very unfavourable exhange rates and also the natural disasters which hit Asia, like all other Japanese manufacturers. The effect of flooding in Thailand over the supply chain for the L200 resulted in a one month production loss due to parts supply, and the earthquake in Japan also affected the J-manufactured product supply chain, even though there was no direct damage to MMC’s production installations, they still had power shortages and interruptions in the supply chain of certain variant-specific parts which led to adjustments in the production schedule and tempory change in mix- away from those variants subject to shortage of certain parts.

Volumes were recovered and Mitsubishi’s production returned back to normal in October.

The award is voted by the readers of BusinessCar magazine and is decided by the business car industry carriers with the approval of the fleet market. The award was for the entire 500 range rather than one specific model.

The Fiat 500 is no stranger to awards and has a long lists of honours in its name, this list includes the Car of the Year 2008, along with several from the UK’s leading consumer and trade titles.

Paul Barker editor of BusinessCar commented “”Fiat’s 500 has again proved to be a business car market favourite, and Fiat’s advancement with its TwinAir technology has enhanced the excellent city car’s appeal to the sector”, “The readers of BusinessCar are obviously fans of the 500′s combination of fun and frugality, having picked it as their favourite city car for the fourth year in a row.”

Marketing Director Elena Bernardelli of Fiat Group Automobiles UK and Ireland said “”Four entries and four straight wins is wonderful news and a great tribute to the Fiat 500, which continues to appeal both to private customers and fleets, The 500 is a car that thousands of people want to have as their own, but it’s good to see how popular it is as a serious business tool too.”

The Fiat 500 is available with a choice of ultra-low emissions Euro 5 engines, 85bhp 0.9-litre TwinAir, 69 bhp 1.2-litre and 100bhp 1.4-litre petrol, and 95 bhp 1.3-litre MultiJet turbodiesel. It also comes in a variety of trim levels and prices start at just £9960, which is outstanding value for money.

The grant now applies to vans which means 20% off to buyers, can give up to £8000 off the price of an electric van. At the moment Nissan are conducting real-world tests of a prototype zero-emission all-electric delivery vehicle in London. Nissan and FedEx Express are collaborating over a two month period to evaluate how the NV200 electric vehicle prototype copes with the rigours of daily duties in the nation’s capital.

The Nissan LEAF will start to be produced in Nissan’s Sunderland plant from 2013. Nissan recently announced, with an initial capacity of 50,000 vehicles, the plant will also start the production of batteries for the LEAF in early 2012. Nissan are investing a total of  £420 million into the LEAF project, this will help maintain the 2,250 jobs at Nissan and across the UK supply chain.

James Wright, Managing Director at Nissan Motor (GB) Limited said: “Today’s announcement reinforces the Government’s commitment to improving air quality in cities and reducing carbon emissions.

“This grant, coupled with lower running costs and tax benefits, will make switching to an electric van a very attractive option for businesses.”

The electric version of the NV200 van will go on sale in early 2013.

The paint was developed in 2005 and has already been used in a number of  Infiniti products and Nissan models. Now this technology has been applied to a product that’s prone to scratched through everyday use – the smartphone – with Nissan’s new Scratch Shield case iPhone owners everywhere can keep their phone looking its best for longer.

The paint was developed in collaboration with the University of Tokyo and Advanced Softmaterials Inc, this unique paint finish was designed for automotive use and is available on the Nissan 370Z, Murano, X-Trail and the Infiniti range of products. Now thanks to Nissan’s pioneering approach this technology has been used for the first time on a non-automotive product.

The Nissan Scratch Shield iPhone case was designed using several automotive engineering innovations to deliver a durable and long-lasting paint coat that fits tightly around the case. The case has three key benefits: its highly flexible, and allows fine scratches to quickly mend themselves, it has a tactile-gel like glossy surface which is more scratch-resistant than conventional paint and also provides a better grip. The case itself is made of ABS plastic which is a high grade substance that is used in the automotive industry regularly, its more rigid and robust than other plastics. The outer ‘paint’ is made from polyrotaxane, this means when damage does occur to the coating, in the form of a fine scratch, the chemical structure is able to react and change back to its original shape and fill the gap – “healing” the blemish.

“We like to think laterally by taking the great innovations we’ve got from an automotive point of view, and looking at how they could be applied to improve everyday issues. The Scratch Shield iPhone case is a great example of us taking a Nissan automotive technology that has had a huge impact for our customers, and then shifting the boundaries to apply it to another everyday product” commented Bob Laishley, Overseas Programme Director Business Development for Nissan in Europe.

“We’re really excited about the possibilities provided by this technology. In Japan, we’ve already linked up with world-leading mobile operator NTT DoCoMo to allow them to use the Scratch Shield technology on its Style Series N-03B mobile phones, and we think this technology has real scope beyond the automotive world. We’re passionate about innovations that get people excited, and that means not being restricted to one industry or genre.”

An initial batch of prototypes of the Scratch Shield iPhone cases have been produced by Nissan for BETA testing with selected journalists and customers, if the demand proves strong, the case should be on sale later this year.

The Mitsubishi package offers the customers a 30-day vehicle exchange, 12-month vehicle warranty, a multi-point vehicle check, a vehicle histor check and drive away insurance.

The package will add value, provide confidence, meet customer expectations and promote Mitsubishi’s Excellent Service philosophy. The vehicle will be prepared to high retail standards which should guarantee peace of mind and assurance that the customer should expect and experience from a Mitsubishi dealer.

Lance Bradley, Managing Director of Mitsubishi Motors in the UK commented “In a tough economic climate, good quality, reliable used cars are important to both dealers and customers alike. The launch of the all-new Mitsubishi Approved Used Car Programme means that our customers can have the peace of mind they deserve from a reliable global brand, whilst knowing they are also going to get Excellent Service from our Mitsubishi dealer network. This is an exciting step forward for us, which comes at just the right time with a market-leading package that I am sure will be welcomed by the market.”