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 as many visitors are expected to travel around the country during this time with a number leaving their cars at major airport locations. These cars and campervans will need to be relocated back to their place of origin and we will be there ready to fulfill this need…..

For those interested, here’s the RWC schedule:

Auckland

09 September 2011 NZL – TGA
17 September 2011 AUS – IRE
24 September 2011 NZL – FRA
25 September 2011 FJI – SAM
01 October 2011 ENG – SCO
15 October 2011 WQ1 – WQ2
16 October 2011 WQ3 – WQ4
21 October 2011 LS1 – LS2
22 October 2011 WS1 – WS2

Christchurch

10 September 2011 ARG – ENG
11 September 2011 AUS – ITA
18 September 2011 ENG – EU1
25 September 2011 ARG – SCO
01 October 2011 AUS – EU2
08 October 2011 WPB -
09 October 2011 WPA – RUB

Transfercar needs your support!

Install the app at http://apps.facebook.com/kick-start/ and vote for Transfercar at the “Kick-start.

StartUP is a global community designed to assist online Start-UPs. Every week they will be sending their entire group of thousands of visitors to one lucky Start-UP (Transfercar) and provide a major traffic spike and hopefully a lot of new users.

You can help Transfercar by voting for them at Start-UP with on their Kick-Start my Start-UP Facebook App.

So install the app at http://apps.facebook.com/kick-start/ and vote for Transfercar now!

Two weeks ago we had a fun day (more fun than usual) here at Transfercar when Made From New Zealand came up from Wellington and did a video shoot of us.

We started out filming outside the University of Auckland Business School (where the idea to Transfercar first was developed). Then we moved down to the car yard at Jucy Rental Cars (they happened to be close, sorry to all the other rental companies that didn’t get the same exposure!). And Tim Alpe, CEO at Jucy gave us a raving endorsement!

All in all the whole shoot lasted the afternoon and it was a lot of fun to do. We shot 3 short movies. The first one came out today:

Let us know what you think!

Today New Zealand businesses and individuals are joining in on a massive protest against the Guilt Upon Accusation law ‘Section 92A’ that calls for internet disconnection based on accusations of copyright infringement without a trial and without any evidence held up to court scrutiny. This is due to come into effect on February 28th unless immediate action is taken by the National Party.

A massive “blackout” of websites are occurring today from major online players such as Scoop Media, Zoomin, GeekZone, SilverStripe and many more. See full list here.

Transfercar will be carrying a centrally placed banner on all our pages in support of the protest. Click here for screenshot.

Winners of the petrol vouchers announced

We are happy to announce the winners of the “Wanna win free petrol?” -competition in the December issue of Transfercar’s email newsletter.

For those of you who missed it, this was the competition:

Wanna win free petrol?
Well, you can! What do you have to do to win? Nothing much really, just refer as many colleagues, friends and relatives to us as you can. That’s it!
We will draw 2 winners of $150 petrol vouchers each. To enter the competition just get the people you refer to enter  your username in the reference code on the registration page.
The more new registrations with your username on it, the bigger the chance you have to win!

We have had a great response with almost 650 new users signed up through the referral, so welcome on board to all of you!

..and the two winners of a $150 petrol voucher each are:

Matthew Rice
Queensland
Australia

and

Andrea Wilke
Berlin
Germany

We congratulate you both and thank you for your effort! The vouchers have been issued and sent out to you.

For all of you who missed out this time there will be some more competitions with even bigger prizes in the future. Hopefully we will see some Kiwi’s amongs the winners then as well!

A great new initiative for New Zealand businesses has begun to emerge; Made From New Zealand has grown out of the people behind Silicon Welly and StartUp and it is a web based community/networking/linkbuilding/promotional-tool, and I believe we have only seen the start of it yet.

I have already been posting a some articles to the Start-up blog over the past months and so through that I have been in contact with Patrick Macfie and Tim Norton. It is very cool to see what have come out of it (so far).

So for any kiwi individual or company that have something to contribute to the NZ business scene, be it entrepreneurs, investors or customers, check out Madefromnewzealand.com!

PS: From today the Transfercar blog will be plugging in to the Made From New Zealand blog network so these posts can be read there as well.

Keep it up guys!