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About foxysteph

FOXY Steph is Steph Savill, a Sussex Mum who runs award-winning FOXY Lady Drivers Club, a motoring association for women and FOXY Choice, a marketing services agency for female friendly businesses. To find out more, please follow the links from the home page.

Heather vs Honda

A foxy lady driver who expected her high-tech hybrid to do what it said on the tin expects car maker Honda to pay for not delivering the 50mpg it promised, albeit after some 5 years of ownership. Heather Peters has … Continue reading

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Wendy’s nightmare accident claim…

Have you ever faced a fraudulent accident claim that wasn’t anything to do with you? If so, please tell us what happened. Wendy is a member of FOXY Lady Drivers Club and lives in Hampshire. She wrote to us recently … Continue reading

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Women drivers face increased bills if annual MOTs scrapped

FOXY Lady Drivers Club supports today’s research findings that the cost to the UK of scrapping the annual MOT could be as much as £1.5 billion. Government claims that reducing MOT frequency will also reduce the financial burden on motorists … Continue reading

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A familiar fat cat story

        Trust Dilbert to get this one spot on in 2011. Does anyone think this is fair? Compared to the John Lewis Partnership model perhaps? FOXY Steph

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Ladies – beware of lemons at car auctions

A survey that’s unlikely to encourage many foxy lady drivers to take a financial risk at car auctions confirms that close on a third of buyers regretted buying an unreliable car. And wouldn’t have if they’d known this of course. … Continue reading

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Bristol Mum wins Tesco taxi award

Bristol Mum Sharon Appleyard has won Tesco Cars’ inaugural ‘Parent Driver of the Year’ award – a nationwide competition to find the parent that goes above and beyond the call of duty in providing the ultimate ‘parent taxi’ service. Winning … Continue reading

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Audis I have known and loved

I’ve driven two Audis to date, an Audi 80 in the 80s and a very stylish S2 coupe in the early 90s when my corporate career justified this. And I continue to very nearly buy an Audi TT and I … Continue reading

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Foxy Fiat is ideal design icon for women in Wales

Wales’ women’s economic development agency, Chwarae Teg, has teamed-up with Cardiff-based Wessex Garages to inspire Wales’ next generation of designers and celebrate the charity’s 20th anniversary. This cooperation is marked by Wessex Garages’ donation of an iconic Fiat 500 to … Continue reading

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How to make a male dominated industry more female friendly

The UK motor industry could learn a lesson or two from the UK’s transport and logistics sector where an ever increasing number of females are holding top jobs in areas of regulation and operations. If you scrape the surface to … Continue reading

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Money has the Mamma Mia effect

I liked this story about life in economically challenged Greece and how a bit of wealth creation (and some ABBA music perhaps) can go a long way towards the feel good factor… Imagine it is a slow day in a … Continue reading

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