20 Things You Never Knew About The Company Car Industry

• Nearly half of company car drivers have no idea how much car tax they pay.
• A company car driver travels on average 11,400 miles each year on work related business.
• 70% of company car drivers make an average of 15 calls a day from their car - mostly on work related business.
• Only 4% of employees who have been offered cash instead of a car have taken the cash.
• 6% of company car drivers say they have upgraded the car policy list over the past 12 months.
• The average price paid for a new company car is 16315,800.
• The average replacement cycle for a company car is 3.1 years.
• 8% of fleet managers expect to be running more MPVs next year than this year.
• Cash is the most common method of finance for company cars.
• 12% of company cars are sold to staff at the end of their corporate life.
• 87% of company car drivers recognise town centre traffic congestion to be a major problem.
• Only 7% of companies always consider the impact of the environment when buying their company vehicles.
• 38% of company drivers allow for congestion delays on their journey.
• 64% of company car drivers are satisfied with our motorway network.
• 1634.5 billion is lost through the impact of congestion on company car drivers' time use.
• Only 5%of drivers would switch to using public transport if congestion doubled journey times on work related travel.
• 47% of company drivers would support the banning of cars and trucks from city centres.
• 91% of company drivers would support the introduction of a stricter MOT which would help reduce emissions.
• 52% of drivers back the Government's stance on reducing roadbuilding.
• 64% of fleet managers would support a move to incentivise the use of alternative fuels such as LPG.

Technical details

Between 13 July and 4 August 1998, MORI interviewed a representative sample of 1,287 drivers, including a boosted sample of 380 company car drivers. In addition, research was undertaken amongst 390 fleet managers, including a boosted sample of 100 fleet managers in Scotland.