Business Car Manager: Editor’s Blog

GOOD to know that advice is reciprocal. I met my business mentor last night at the Commonwealth Club.

Now, usually, I start to get slightly uncomfortable at the thought of clubs. But this, as my business mentor Max assured me, was different.

And it was. Originally formed to network with the Commonwealth countries, that feeling of relaxed openness and networking – with a welcome to women, too – pervades the beautifully designed club.

Over a beer first, and then dinner, we discussed various topics – including Business Car Manager, to which Max provided his usual useful advice. But Max also mentioned that he had taken mine, too.

Max and his wife both have elderly mothers, and needed a car that was small but could transport them in comfort. I had suggested the Honda Jazz, partly because it has such a flexible interior.

It has done the job. “We bought the car before the VAT rise, and it has been brilliant,” said Max. “I can tip up the ‘Magic Seats‘ in the rear and fit in my mother’s wheel chair. Meanwhile she can sit comfortably in the front, without ending up in a heap.”

Excellent. Job done. Well, not quite. I now have to follow Max’s advice with the business.

I trust the outcome is similarly successful!