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The Stig Unmasked?
ver the last few weeks there has been a story circulating the national press about Top Gear’s infamously tame racing driver, The Stig. Several national papers have pushed forward in revealing the identity of one of the most iconic members of the team, because the driver’s autobiography is set to be published in September. At [...]
Sixt rent a car on your iPhone…
Sixt were the first car hire company to offer a fully functional iPhone booking application, but it seems that just having the app on his iPhone wasn’t enough for one senior employee of Sixt in the UK.
Here is a preview of the said person’s iPhone home screen…
In Car iPad
There’s been an awful lot of hype surrounding the recent launch of the Apple iPad, a tablet computer that allows users to undertake normal computer based tasks from what looks like a giant iPhone. I’m sure if you’re interested in the iPad you will already have read all about it, but you might not have [...]
Congratulations for the 5th Anniversary of YouTube Uploads
On February 14th 2005 three employees from PayPal registered a website with a simple premise, allow people to upload and share videos easily. This one idea grew into an internet phenomenom that in just one year, following the launch of the site, was sold for $1.65 billion to Google. The 3 founders of YouTube, Chad [...]
Munich to Chesterfield by road
Four Sixt UK employees, 900 miles, 17 hours, 8 cans of red bull, 2 cars, 1 flask of coffee!
Our epic journey by Catherine & Dave…
Whilst many tourists have been turning to car hire as an alternative to air travel, some of us from Sixt UK were also caught out by Eyjafjallajökull’s sudden eruption last Thursday [...]
Planes, trains and rental cars
Unless you’ve been stuck in a cave for the last 24 hours you can’t fail to have noticed that there’s been the small matter of an erupting volcano in Iceland disrupting the skies across Europe.
With flights grounded for a second day and closures at most major European airports, describing the situation as chaotic would be an [...]
An App a Day Helps You Work, Rest and Play
Not everyone has an iPhone… just 80% of the people who contributed to this article
Most of the staff handling the blog at Sixt have one of 2 phones, the majority are firmly set in the iPhone camp whereas I’m cutting my own path with an Android powered smart phone. But there’s one thing that unites [...]
Sixt’s got talent – well sort of…
Andy Miles, our Head of Central Services at Sixt UK, was celebrating his brother-in-law’s birthday this weekend, but just the weekend before he’d been rooting for him to win the opening round of “Greece has got Talent” in Athens.
Andy’s brother-in-law, Benji Adeyemo was appearing as “Miss Diamond” on the talent show “Ellada Exeis Talento” the Greek version [...]
Don’t panic Sixt Valentine’s Vouchers still on sale!
With Friday almost over and Saturday’s plans already made there’s not much time to venture out and purchase that last minute Valentine’s gift that you’ve forgotten to buy. Don’t panic because we’ve still got gift vouchers available to buy online. With a fine range of cars to rent across London Sixt gift vouchers make the perfect [...]
Ex-wrestler rumbles muggers
A 69 year old former professional wrestler fought back after being attacked in a Nottinghamshire town last week.
Tony Edwards was making his way home after a quick call at his local supermarket in Newark when two men approached him and began to attack and go through his pockets. However the muggers got more than they [...]
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