Move over The Stig and make way for The Meeg – also known as Brodie Branch – the man who has just set a Guinness World Record for parking cars and a top driver for the airport parking service, Meteor meet and greet.
The Meeg put his parking skills to the test and successfully parked 50 cars in just 22 minutes and 16 seconds near the company’s base in Crawley, setting a new Guinness World Record.
Watched by fellow Meteor meet and greet drivers and monitored by professional timekeepers, The Meeg demonstrated his speed, agility and parking precision, with cars ranging from BMW 5 Series to Fiat 500’s. Between screeching into spaces, The Meeg sprinted back and forth to the start line.
29 February 2012
16 February 2012
How to get to Gatwick's South and North Terminals
You've booked a holiday at Gatwick Airport but have never ever flown from there before, or maybe it was so long ago that you're not really confident how you are going to get there.
Well, here's a couple of great videos that succinctly take you through the approach - from junction 9 of the M23 - and arrival at Gatwick to either the South or North Terminals.
They've both been created by Gatwick meet and greet parking company, Help Me Park, and are very informative but without the sales pitch, and quite short - around 2 minutes each.
Take a look, I'm sure you'll agree.
How to get to the South Terminal:
How to get to the North Terminal:
Well, here's a couple of great videos that succinctly take you through the approach - from junction 9 of the M23 - and arrival at Gatwick to either the South or North Terminals.
They've both been created by Gatwick meet and greet parking company, Help Me Park, and are very informative but without the sales pitch, and quite short - around 2 minutes each.
Take a look, I'm sure you'll agree.
How to get to the South Terminal:
How to get to the North Terminal:
14 February 2012
State of the Art Solar Parking for Eco Cars in Towns and Cities
As drivers are inundated with media and Government pressure about how un-environmentally friendly our cars are, car manufacturers are investing huge amounts of time and money on technologies to build hybrid and electric vehicles.
Prestigious manufacturers like Toyota, Lexus and Honda have been on the hybrid / electric scene for years. And today, many more affordable manufacturers such as Renault, Peugeot and Kia are presenting their own hybrid and electric models.
So as the car manufacturing world stands up and tries to make an environmental difference so to have some very innovative designers and architects when it comes to parking them!
A fascinating collection of state of the art eco parking has been developed by a myriad of leading, new and pioneering designers from around the Globe.
From a car park where cars are parked underneath a literal ‘forest’ of solar trees, cars parked standing up on their front ends in limited spaces, to a parking island off-shore which generates its own power, the ideas and possibilities are endless – all that limits these designs, in their conceptual stages, is the mind! With these kinds of futuristic car parks, electric cars could be charged by solar power, as would the electric power supplies to operate the car park itself, some of these car parks even feeding unused power back into the main power supply.
Today’s talent of environmental specialist designers and architects bring the idea of eco parking of the future that little bit closer to today.
Whilst many of the above mentioned eco car parks are currently designer blue prints, many designers have created their visions, and eco parking is up and running in the UK and the United States.
Take for example the PowerPark eco car parking that’s been created by Romag. Romag, based in Consett, County Durham, have created a parking canopy that can generate around 1,100kWh of emissions free power over a year to charge up hybrid plug-in and electric vehicles that park up underneath them. What’s more, the canopy can produce that amount of power even in areas of the UK are more so bathed in cloud than sun. And excess power is far from wasted; the PowerPark canopy is linked to the National Grid for any overspill of unused energy.
Computer giants, Dell, have installed CleanCharge solar parking stations in their headquarters in Texas. Green energy is powering up electric vehicles with excess energy lighting up the car park compound from dusk.
The car park in the town of Isla Vista, in Santa Barbara, is powered by its 98 solar panels – solar energy that is collected is used to light the car park and operate the pay parking meters on the site. Isla Vista is hoping to increase its panels by another 11 in the near future.
Could these types of eco parking be coming to an airport near you?
Prestigious manufacturers like Toyota, Lexus and Honda have been on the hybrid / electric scene for years. And today, many more affordable manufacturers such as Renault, Peugeot and Kia are presenting their own hybrid and electric models.
So as the car manufacturing world stands up and tries to make an environmental difference so to have some very innovative designers and architects when it comes to parking them!
A fascinating collection of state of the art eco parking has been developed by a myriad of leading, new and pioneering designers from around the Globe.
From a car park where cars are parked underneath a literal ‘forest’ of solar trees, cars parked standing up on their front ends in limited spaces, to a parking island off-shore which generates its own power, the ideas and possibilities are endless – all that limits these designs, in their conceptual stages, is the mind! With these kinds of futuristic car parks, electric cars could be charged by solar power, as would the electric power supplies to operate the car park itself, some of these car parks even feeding unused power back into the main power supply.
Today’s talent of environmental specialist designers and architects bring the idea of eco parking of the future that little bit closer to today.
Whilst many of the above mentioned eco car parks are currently designer blue prints, many designers have created their visions, and eco parking is up and running in the UK and the United States.
Take for example the PowerPark eco car parking that’s been created by Romag. Romag, based in Consett, County Durham, have created a parking canopy that can generate around 1,100kWh of emissions free power over a year to charge up hybrid plug-in and electric vehicles that park up underneath them. What’s more, the canopy can produce that amount of power even in areas of the UK are more so bathed in cloud than sun. And excess power is far from wasted; the PowerPark canopy is linked to the National Grid for any overspill of unused energy.
Computer giants, Dell, have installed CleanCharge solar parking stations in their headquarters in Texas. Green energy is powering up electric vehicles with excess energy lighting up the car park compound from dusk.
The car park in the town of Isla Vista, in Santa Barbara, is powered by its 98 solar panels – solar energy that is collected is used to light the car park and operate the pay parking meters on the site. Isla Vista is hoping to increase its panels by another 11 in the near future.
Could these types of eco parking be coming to an airport near you?
09 February 2012
Return of the Stansted Mid Stay Supersaver parking package
Stansted Mid Stay Supersaver parking package is back!
The non-flexible Stansted parking is available for booking until 8 July 2012 – customers must book at least 30 days in advance and for parking for at least two days.
Currently parking prices start from £62.50 for eight days and £95 for 15 days.
To book the Stansted Mid Stay Supersaver parking package click on the link.
The non-flexible Stansted parking is available for booking until 8 July 2012 – customers must book at least 30 days in advance and for parking for at least two days.
Currently parking prices start from £62.50 for eight days and £95 for 15 days.
To book the Stansted Mid Stay Supersaver parking package click on the link.
08 February 2012
Aberdeen Long Stay parking
Aberdeen Long Stay parking has introduced a new Extra-Supersaver parking package.
The non-flexible package must be booked at least 14 days in advance and is available until the end of March.
The non-flexible package must be booked at least 14 days in advance and is available until the end of March.
07 February 2012
Maple Manor scraps surcharge for car pick up
Gatwick meet and greet parking company Maple Manor has scrapped its £2.50 surcharge for car pick ups between the hours of midnight and 6.30am.
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