The VW Caddy Racer claimed its title of the fastest van in Ireland when it set a new course record for Commercial Vehicles in Mondello last month. Powered by a 4-cylinder, 16-valve 2.0 litre engine, it matched and even beat many of the times set by conventional racing cars at Mondello.
The VW Caddy Racer which has been taking part in the VW Cup for the last few years and is driven by Volkswagen Commercial Vehicle Director Simon Elliot has been a very popular entry with the racegoers with its distinct van shape racing around the course.
Now that commercial vehicle owners know this is it going to be a popular choice? From our experience, you don’t exactly need to have the fastest commercial vehicles to break through the speed limits on Irish roads!
While it may be cool to claim to have a fleet of the fastest vehicles to deliver your services on time, will fleet managers be spending half their time trying to slow these guys down! Conventional ways of slowing down your fleet are through the use of speed limiters and GPS Fleet Management Systems.
" A lot of people assume before they actually start using GPS tracking or fleet management tools for their business that, as this title suggests, they will primarily be dealing with “dots on a map”. Maybe this is because other applications based on GPS technology are becoming increasingly popular, like car navigation systems as well as the use of Google Maps to check out routes, and, by extension, people are inclined to view GPS fleet tracking as something similar. " Keep reading here GPS Fleet Management Systems.
It would be interesting to know how many VW Caddy Racers will be sold with limiters fitted!
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