Benefits of joining a Car Club

Car Clubs are a great way to use a vehicle without owning it. No more need to worry about servicing or maintenance, no need to pay the road tax, all this is dealt with by the car club. You get to drive one of a range of modern vehicles when you want and for as long as you want.

Add to all this convenience the money you will save and its easy to see why car clubs are the growing so rapidly! Join your local car club and you will then be able to use any one of their vehicles on an hourly basis.

Some people use car clubs as their main car, others as a handy second or backup vehicle. Whatever your situation car clubs can benefit you and bring a bit of extra mobility into your life!

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No longer having to pay my increasing insurance premium and the running costs of my old car means that now I make substantial saving by being a member of a Car Club, It’s easy! I am pleased that it helps to eliminate the number of vehicles on the road and for me it’s very convenient. Car Clubs mean that I can have the use of a car without the worry, cost and upkeep of my own vehicle.

Matthew Peter Sharp, Leeds

I use a Car Club to make those journeys that would be impossible on my bike. Joining a Car Club has given me greater freedom to do the things that in the past I would have had to ask friends for help with or done without. I have never been able to justify buying a car and so having access to one as easily as this is great. Car Clubs is definetly the way forward.

Kate Evans, York

It was an extremely easy decision to make when we found out about car clubs. I think that any business that uses pool cars for staff, and even those that operate a company car scheme, should look at a solution such as this. It not only shows immediate cost savings, it sends a very positive environmental message to staff. We recommend Car Clubs to other companies whenever we can.

Arup Spokesperson

As a motorist in London I was fed up with the expense of owning a car that just sat outside my house when I went to work each day. It was such a drain on my resources that I really had to find another way to travel. I looked at several options, including a bike and just relying on public transport, but I felt I really needed a car for jobs, such as large shopping trips. I was complaining about my predicament to a friend when they told me about car clubs. Initially I was unsure but it is amazing how quickly you get used to it and see real value in terms of saving money. Looking back I almost cannot remember why I even owned a car. As there are cars located all across London now I can use the service from home and from work. It allows me to be flexible and is as convenient as owning my own car.

London commuter

Leading a business presents lots of challenges and one thing that I don’t want to be concerned with is which type of transport to use. Couple this with the fact that I am always looking at the impact of purchasing decisions on my bottom line and how my company and its practices are represented to the outside world in terms of CSR urged me to find out more about car clubs. We have several cars located permanently in our office car park, which means myself and my staff can have immediate access to vehicles; this was particularly important as memories of being late for meetings as I tried to find a black cab still haunt me. The fact that car clubs take cars off the road is an added bonus, I have had several comments from suppliers who are impressed by the fact that we have taken up this green imitative and believe it is an added bonus in terms of dealing with us as a company. Of course it also saves me money on fleet cars and taxi services, which as a business man is one of my biggest priorities!

London Business Manager

As a resident of Islington Borough Council, I became aware of an awful lot of car club bays appearing in my local area about a year ago. Therefore, when my old Peugeot was on its last legs, I decided to give joining one of the clubs a go. I could not quite face splashing out on a new car, which would mostly just sit on the side of the road, falling prey to pigeons and vandals! I chose a car clubs that had quite a few cars close to me, near Angel tube station. (There are now 9 cars within half a mile of my flat, and even a van!) Since I’d only ever used my old car a couple of times a week, adapting to the car club way of life was really easy. I now use the bus and tube more. I have even started cycling to work. I manage to get away with taking out a car club car only about twice a month, for journeys like visiting family outside of London, doing a really big shop or picking up friends from the airport.

Islington Resident

  • Latest News

    • City Car Club have been expanding both in London and across the UK. Now Birmingham is set to see an increase in the number of cars available following a new agreement with the City Council - click here for more details.

      ZipCar are finally buying StreetCar- as reported in the The Standard;

      '      Car club ZipCar has been given the go-ahead to buy its rival StreetCar, giving members in London access to more than 1,700 cars and vans.

      Zipcar — which has 360,000 members across the US and Europe — is expected to ditch the Streetcar branding'.

      Click here to read the Standard report;
      London Standard 18/11/10


  • Quick Facts

    • In the UK about 85% of journeys are made by car. Even huge investment public transport would only reduce this figure by 5 to 10% over many years. However it has been calculated that car clubs can achieve a 5 to 10% reduction with only 0.5% of the investment in just a few years.
    • Car Club membership in the UK is now in excess of 50,000, making it one of the fastest growing businesses!

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