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Beware valet parking insurance loophole

USING A VALET parking service could mean losing your car with no insurance cover. Drivers are being warned to check their insurance policies before handing over their car keys to valet parking attendants as more than half (51%) of the UK’s motor insurance policies do not cover this service. While valet parking companies provide insurance cover for their employees to drive your car, many insurance policies do not cover ‘damage to vehicle while in the control of valet parking staff.’ This means if your car is damaged or written off while it’s being parked or retrieved by valet parking staff, you could be left seriously out of pocket with no claim against the valet parking company.

Jaguar ‘How Alive Are You?’ Marketing campaign launches

Jaguar Alive Marketing Campaign Launched Jaguar are launching a new global marketing campaign for the Jaguar Brand – run by Spark44 – focusing on Jaguars as  ’instinctively rewarding performance cars’. Jaguar are launching a new global marketing campaign to convince car buyers that they produce the most appealing range of drivers’ cars…in the world. The Jaguar ‘How Alive are You?’ campaign has been put together by Jaguar’s Spark44 Advertising Agency (which Jaguar Land Rover part own) which aims to show Jaguar in a modern context.

Volvo testing new safety features

Volvo outlined three new technologies that it says will help make the Volvos of the future a good deal safer: autonomous driving, “Intersection Support” and animal detection. Volvo says it's tailoring technologies to the way people drive, by which it means poorly. The company claims that “surveys from three different research institutes in the United States reveal that modern drivers spend 25 to 30 percent of their time behind the wheel doing other things, such as focusing on mobile communication.” Volvo's new technologies are said take this into account and “provide the driver with the right support at all times.” By using a camera and radar, future Volvos will be able to follow the car in front while driving in slow traffic using an autonomous-driving function.