http://www.premierevelocity.com/ en enquiries@premierevelocity.com Copyright 2013 2013-03-21T09:13:05+00:00 http://www.premierevelocity.com/news/detail/10-reasons-why-you-should-hire-from-premiere-velocity/ http://www.premierevelocity.com/news/detail/10-reasons-why-you-should-hire-from-premiere-velocity/ The prestige, luxury and supercar hire / rental sector is rife with brokers, bedroom pretenders and worse of all, uninsured vehicles. Many clients ask us why they have to pay more with us for their prestige car hire, and the answer is self-explanatory.....like most things in life, you get what you pay for. 1: All our cars are covered by a fully comprehensive 'self-drive hire or reward' policy. 2: We do not keep any stock over 2/3 years old or 25,000 miles 3: We own ALL of our fleet, unlike some companies that make similar claims. 4: We stock the most up to date variants and limited editions. 5: Our rates are completely transparent. 6: We operate as Hertz Supercars. Trusted by the largest rental brand in the world. 7: Polite staff with an exyensive knowledge of the hire cars they are offering. 8: The entire fleet is maintained to the highest standard at a 9000 sq ft facility. 9: Real staff and real people, not a call centre or PO Box address. 10: Our images are of our vehicles on our premises, peace of mind.   Our advice when hiring a Supercar or arranging a prestige rental is that you confirm who owns the car? Ask to see the insurance policy, after all; it's your life and finances that are at risk, not the unscrupulous brokers. Go and see the hire car before you pay, if you can't then ask yourself why? Visit the companies premises and make sure that you are dealing with a legitimate company. 2013-03-21T09:13:05+00:00 http://www.premierevelocity.com/news/detail/supercars-seized-in-knightsbridge-crackdown/ http://www.premierevelocity.com/news/detail/supercars-seized-in-knightsbridge-crackdown/ High-performance cars worth hundreds of thousands of pounds were seized and drivers were fined during a police crackdown on boy racers in Knightsbridge. Ferraris, Bentleys, Porsches, BMWs and a Bugatti Veyron were pulled over for spot-checks last night. Alleged offences included driving without insurance, or having windows that were too heavily tinted. Residents say they are kept awake by the noise of cars, mostly owned by young Middle Eastern men, being raced into the early hours, and claim pedestrians are being put at risk. Many of the drivers, thought to include members of the Qatari royal family, come to the UK to escape the hot weather at home in the weeks before Ramadan, which falls next month. Car enthusiasts turn up regularly to watch and video the supercars. Last night's operation in Basil Street, near Harrods, saw the seizure of a new Bentley, thought to be worth £200,000, and a black soft-top Ferrari. The Ferrari driver was arrested, allegedly for breaking a court order banning him from driving. The Bentley was towed away after its driver allegedly failed to provide insurance documents, and the owner of a BMW was warned for having over-tinted windows. Three £60 fixed-penalty notices were issued for incorrect number plates and a fourth was handed out for driving the wrong way in a one-way street. A similar operation last week saw two cars towed away. Madeline Elsdon, who chairs the Knightsbridge Association's law and order committee, said: "We welcome Middle Eastern drivers to Knightsbridge to enjoy the atmosphere and freedom we offer. But perhaps the drivers of these high-performance cars are unaware that Knightsbridge has 4,000 residents, including many children. "In certain streets, people are unable to sleep for weeks every summer due to the noise from high-performance vehicles cruising the streets until the early hours." A growing number of car-spotters gather around Basil Street on summer evenings. Some try to make money by posting their videos of the cars on the internet, though films showing illegal driving, such as power slides, have been removed recently. One car-spotter, who did not want to be named, said the number of cars involved has fallen: "Two cars got impounded last year and from that lots of drivers got told to slow down. They have never had these problems in their own countries. "Next year they might go to Paris and let it cool down here and then the following year come back to London." 2011-07-20T13:52:28+00:00 http://www.premierevelocity.com/news/detail/range-rover-build-130000-vogue/ http://www.premierevelocity.com/news/detail/range-rover-build-130000-vogue/ Looks like Range rover are taking over where Overfinch left off when they are expected to finally break through the six-figure price barrier with this new model, the Autobiography Ultimate Edition, as it will be priced at around £130,000. Set to be unveiled at the start of next month in Geneva, the Ultimate will be limited to just 500 units worldwide, for 20 markets, produced to individual order. Either a 4.4-litre V8 diesel or a 5.0-litre Supercharged V8 can be specified. Range Rover designers have completely revamped the rear cabin, fitting individual back seats, and a new centre console design — made of milled aluminium, leather and wood veneers — has been added. The console includes a drinks chiller and laptop table. The backs of the front seats have been modified to accommodate Apple iPads. The Ultimate Edition’s rear load space also gets a yacht-style teak floor with aluminium and leather detailing. Semi-aniline leather has been used for seating and new ‘Kalahari’ wood veneers feature on the door tops. The car also gets unique 20in alloy wheels. 2011-02-09T12:04:31+00:00 http://www.premierevelocity.com/news/detail/Mercedes-Benz-CLS-63-AMG/ http://www.premierevelocity.com/news/detail/Mercedes-Benz-CLS-63-AMG/ The new CLS 63 AMG is a case in point. It receives a bespoke engine and transmission, a new front axle, substantially modified suspension and steering systems as well a unique damping system. The extensive styling changes inside and out are literally the icing on a seriously re-engineered cake. And AMG engineers have put over one million test kilometres into both the engine and the finished car. It gets the company’s new M157 5.5-litre bi-turbo V8 engine which replaces AMG’s old 6.3-litre naturally-aspirated V8. The M157 (like all AMG motors, assembled by a single engineer) is more powerful, torquier and an amazing 32 per cent more economical than the outgoing engine. AMG has also developed its own ‘Speedshift MCT’ 7-speed transmission, which ditches a conventional - and laggy - torque convertor for a much more direct-feeling ‘wet start-up clutch’ which runs in a oil bath. One of the most important aspects of the CLS’s development lies in the huge efforts that the company has put into the new electromechanical steering system. The 14:1 ratio is 22 percent quicker than the standard CLS, its is said to be extremely rigidly mounted and its control unit takes information from a wide range of sensors (including lateral acceleration and under and oversteer characteristics) to calculate the forces it feeds back to the wheel rim. We also have the C63 Amg for hire a Premiere Velocity, it has exactly the same engine and the same noise! 2011-01-18T16:50:45+00:00 http://www.premierevelocity.com/news/detail/porsche-panamera-gets-tweaked/ http://www.premierevelocity.com/news/detail/porsche-panamera-gets-tweaked/ Anyone familiar with Porsche's options catalog knows that a nearly endless list of custom extras are available for the companies entire model range. However, Porsche is now offering something extra special for customers of it's fantastic four-door. Dubbed the Porsche Panamera personalization program, the PPPP incorporates styling and performance tweaks, depending on your budget and taste. The top-rung Panamera Turbo can now be had with a Powerkit package that uses two new turbochargers and revised engine mapping to offer 40 more horsepower and 37 more pound-feet of torque over the standard Turbo, totaling 540 and 553, respectively. What's more, the Powerkit treatment includes Porsche's Sport Chrono Turbo Package, and if the car is driven in Sport Plus mode, torque output is further increased to 590 lb-ft. That's a whole lot of twist. This Holy Grail of Panameras will sprint to 62 miles per hour in just 3.9 seconds on its way to a top speed of 190 mph, yet it still manages to keep the Turbo's EPA-rated city/highway fuel economy of 15/23 miles per gallon. Available on the full Panamera range, however, is the Porsche's new Sport Design Package which includes a unique front fascia with wider air intakes, a new rear underbody apron incorporating a new diffuser and fins, different side skirts and 20-inch Panamera Sport wheels available in a range of colors. It certainly does a lot to beef up the cars appearance, and we're quite fond of the overall treatment.You can hire a porsche panamera from us today. 2010-12-29T11:24:12+00:00 http://www.premierevelocity.com/news/detail/lamborghini-reveal-new-2011-murcielago-to-customers/ http://www.premierevelocity.com/news/detail/lamborghini-reveal-new-2011-murcielago-to-customers/ Lamborghini boss, Stephan Winkelmann, has been on a whirlwind global tour to show the firm's Murciélago replacement to carefully selected customers. “We’ve allowed the dealers to select which customers are invited instead of getting involved directly,” Winkelmann reported. “They know who they need to invite because, in some cases, these are people they have been dealing with for many years.” The firm’s next-generation flagship - which has yet to be given a name - is likely to retain the same four-wheel drive layout as the current car, and use an all-new V12 engine producing as much as 700bhp. That’s a gain of more than 10 per cent on the outgoing model. The new car is understood to have a carbonfibre tub as Lamborghini tries to shave weight from the Murciélago’s 1740kg bulk. Judging from the disguise on this test car, the exterior styling includes some of the angular panel surfacing that is expected to feature so prominently on the firm’s Paris concept, so far only seen in a succession of teaser images. Less is known about the rest of the car’s running gear. Insiders say that a dual-clutch unit has been ruled out, but hint that the car will offer a different proposition from Lamborghini’s automated manual e-gear system. And Lamborghini is said to have been working on an all-new suspension set-up, possibly a pushrod configuration. The car is expected to get a heavily revised interior, making Lambo’s flagship feel even more upmarket and justifying what’s likely to be a price increase, to around £250,000. It will be launched at the Geneva motor show in March.   2010-12-01T12:22:34+00:00 http://www.premierevelocity.com/news/detail/lamborghinis-last-murcielago/ http://www.premierevelocity.com/news/detail/lamborghinis-last-murcielago/ The final Lamborghini Murcielago has rolled out of the Sant'Agata Bolognese factory, after a production run that lasted almost a decade and 4099 cars. The last Murcielago, which marked the end of a run that started in 2001, actually shuffled off the assembly line on 11 May this year, but Lamborghini officially marked the departure of the Murcielago last Friday with a celebratory exhibition Lamborghini's most famous V12s. The exhibition at the factory was then followed by a symbolic "last ride" out of the gate of the Lamborghini factory and a parade in Sant'Agata Bolognese with the likes of the 350 GT, the Miura, the Countach and the Diablo escorting Murciélago SV of the Lamborghini museum around the town. "For almost a decade, the Murciélago was the icon of the Lamborghini brand, and it was enormously successful in the process," says Stephan Winkelmann, President and CEO of Lamborghini. "The Murciélago embodies the pure, unadulterated values of our brand. It is truly extreme, uncompromising and unmistakably Italian. "This already makes it one of the legends of the sports car world. But the Lamborghini story continues. In 2011, we will take a huge step into the future with the successor to the Murciélago - with the most innovative technology and, once again, truly stunning design." 2010-11-08T13:02:24+00:00 http://www.premierevelocity.com/news/detail/ferrari-theme-park-is-opening/ http://www.premierevelocity.com/news/detail/ferrari-theme-park-is-opening/ Ferrari threw open the doors of Ferrari World Abu Dhabi theme park for the first time yesterday, the world’s largest indoor theme park. The 2.2 million sq ft theme park sits beneath a huge red roof, complete with the Ferrari logo. And on the floor of the theme park is the world’s largest Ferrari logo that takes up 930,000sq ft of floor space. Under the roof are more than 20 attractions including the world’s fastest roller coaster, Formula Rossa, which can reach speeds of up to 150mph. The park just four years ago was a project, an idea, maybe even a too ambitious idea, is now a fantastic reality,” said Ferrari boss Luca di Montezemolo. “Everyone at Ferrari is grateful to the people who have worked without rest for the last two years to make it happen.” Other attractions include Speed of Magic, a 4D film, and Made in Maranello, a virtual reality tour of Maranello. There is also a rollercoaster where people sit in Ferrari F430 pods and a recreation of the Ferrari motorhome from the Formula One paddock. The park’s official opening date has been postponed, however, due to the passing away of Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al-Qasimi, Emir of Ras al-Khaimah. Yesterday the park was open to selected members of the international press. Tickets to get in will cost 225 AED (£38). 2010-10-30T10:02:04+00:00 http://www.premierevelocity.com/news/detail/land-range-rover-evoque/ http://www.premierevelocity.com/news/detail/land-range-rover-evoque/ ENGINES Two specs of 2.2-litre turbodiesel powerplants, with 148bhp and 187bhp, will form the bulk of sales of the Evoque in the UK. Both of the models will have stop-start as standard when accompanied by a manual gearbox. There will also be a petrol version, using a 237bhp variant of Ford's turbocharged 2.0-litre Ecoboost engine. DRIVELINE Front-drive 148bhp diesel will return 58mpg and less than 130g/km of CO2 when paired with a manual gearbox (adding two driven wheels will cost you 8mpg and more than 15g/km). But the oil-burners and the petrol motor will also be offered with four-wheel drive and an updated six-speed auto transmission; it's controlled via the rising circular selector from the Jaguar XF. OPTIONS A full-length panoramic roof will be on the list, but if you don't want glass, contrasting paint colours of lid will also be available as a no-cost option. Inside, you can spec a dual-view TFT screen for simultaneous sat-nav and television display, and upgrade the stereo to a 1200W, 17-speaker Meridian system. Other options include park assist, dual-zone climate control with a timer facility, a powered tailgate, adaptive headlights and a heated windscreen 2010-10-12T09:19:56+00:00 http://www.premierevelocity.com/news/detail/458-suffers-fire-problems/ http://www.premierevelocity.com/news/detail/458-suffers-fire-problems/ Ferrari today recalled more than 1,200 supercars worth more than £212million because of a design fault which can cause them to burst into flames. The recall includes about 50 of the top-of-the-range vehicles in the UK which have been delivered or are with dealerships ready for delivery. A spate of Ferrari 458 Italia models have been gutted by fire since they rolled off the production line this year   2010-09-03T10:53:39+00:00