Rugby World Cup Car Rental Fever

New Zealand Rental car companies have joined the multitude of Rugby World Cup hopefuls as the hype and anticipation of this global sporting event continues to rise. With the RWC looming ever closer (9 September – 23 October 2011), rental car companies are pushing for customers to book cars and campervans early, touting the issue of lack of car availability due to the estimated 85,000 international visitors expected to arrive in New Zealand specifically for the event. This is a good sign for Transfercar...Read More

Car Rental Company Invests $25M in Tourism Growth

Apex Car Rentals, one of New Zealand’s largest rental car companies has recently announced a $25 million fleet expansion. Part of the fleet growth for this season with include the addition of an extra 1200 cars. 700 of these will be new 2010 model Toyota Corollas and Toyota Previas. The new cars started arriving from 28 September. Apex has had a stellar growth path over the last 20 years, growing from a solely Christchurch based company with six cars in 1992, to a nationwide company with over 4000...Read More

Email problems in the weekend

On Saturday our email sending service SMTP.com decided to disable our account. The reason was that someone had reported our emails as SPAM. The account was disabled immediately and without warning. No emails from Transfercar last weekend We didn’t see the email until Sunday after some of you called us about not receiving emails. And from there on it took another 18 hours before we were able to get hold of someone at SMTP.com and convinced them that we are not in the business of sending SPAM. Transfercar...Read More

Small updates to the site

I have made some updates to the site today. Mostly cosmetic changes here and there to make the site more usable. However on the front page there are some new stuff; A link and a signup button to our Facebook page. A link to our Twitter page A video presentation of Transfercar on YouTube. Will be back to make it all look a bit cleaner in the near future...Read More

On the road

My name is Brian and I am one of the founders of Transfercar. I have written this article series to help people who are thinking of relocating a car, camper van or motorhome for the first time via Transfercar. This is the third and last article. The first part in this series explains what a relocation car is on what it means to be a relocation driver, and the second article explains how to find and book a relocation. On the road Day 1, our flight was scheduled to 6.40 am and we arrived Chrichchurch on time...Read More