Sports car hire business and insurance questions

[insurance_jon]

Remember behind each of these stories is a claim

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13000...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229983/Pi...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8934978/F...


http://www.inautonews.com/rented-ferrari-458-itali...

Strangely you get a lot of these round Ramadan and the wedding season

[HoHoHo]

insurance_jon said:

HoHoHo said:

insurance_jon said:

thats where you're wrong. with SDH insurance for new start ups they want to see a plan. Many of these ventures fail due to bad planning, and are attracive to organised crime for VAT fraud so they want to do due dil on the directors. the things they are are looking at when they underwrite it are:

1. experience within the industry
2. marketing - how are you aiming this at clients? what types of clients are you attracting
3. where the vehicles are stored
4. ages of directors, employees and drivers
5. induction process - i.e are you just chucking the keys for the Ferrari at the guy who has only ever driven a mondeo or will there be a documents check drive
6. asset tracking
7. vehicle security

plus much more.

You learn something every day, thanks Jon

It's just different ways of measuRing risk;)

Makes perfect sense (after my flippant comment earlier)!

[ant111s]

insurance_jon said:

Remember behind each of these stories is a claim

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13000...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229983/Pi...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8934978/F...


http://www.inautonews.com/rented-ferrari-458-itali...

Strangely you get a lot of these round Ramadan and the wedding season

Frightening isn't it. I've read so many stories including most of the above in my research so it gives me a bit of a better educational decision when who to rent out to. Kind of figures why firstly you have insurance and secondly why the quotes are so high specially for new starters.

[Paddymcc]

A guy in belfast sells ferrari experience trips in his car whereby you get to drive around the city with him in the passenger seat for 30mins and some driver training.

Sells the 'experience' on daily deal type websites and might be another another avenue for you.

http://www.goldenmoments.ie/ferrari360-belfast-20....

[ant111s]

Paddymcc said:

A guy in belfast sells ferrari experience trips in his car whereby you get to drive around the city with him in the passenger seat for 30mins and some driver training.

Sells the 'experience' on daily deal type websites and might be another another avenue for you.

http://www.goldenmoments.ie/ferrari360-belfast-20....

Nice one.. cheers for this!

[ant111s]

jammy_basturd said:

To be completely honest I'm struggling to find many positives. Sorry if that sounds a bit harsh. The visual hierarchy of the website isn't brilliant, my eyes don't know what to look at next. The big banner area takes up a lot of room but does nothing. The whole site looks like it's been squashed together, almost as if someone wants everything to be above the first fold (which doesn't exist). The whole thing just looks like something a junior would have produced in Dreamweaver or Frontpage about 10 years ago.

My advice for someone just starting out would be to engage a web designer/coder who can spend maybe a week pulling together a Wordpress site for you using an existing theme. The reason I suggest a theme is that it doesn't look like you have a strong brand image yet, so a completely custom designed website would be pointless. A theme gives you a massive leap to a professionally designed (usually responsive) website for a fraction of the cost.

I spent 10 minutes on ThemeForest and came up with these suggestions:

Car specific and wouldn't take long to adapt for your needs: http://themes.bonfirelab.com/shandora_cardeal/
Same as above: http://themeforest.net/item/opendoor-responsive-re...

These themes are a bit more generic but I think could work well:
http://themeforest.net/item/glissando-creative-one...
http://themeforest.net/item/goddess-multi-purpose-... (ignore the rainy effect, I'd remove that).

The shandora one looks quite funky

[Chiddo]

Interested to know if this went ahead?

P.S that ferrari experince is bloody expensive! 20 mins in a ferrari that would not appeal to 99.99% of what I would think would be a target audience of 18 - 35.