Liquid Fleet is reporting an increased appetite from the corporate sector for short-term vehicle leasing contracts.
In a fast start to 2026, it has supplied 450 cars and 100 light commercial vehicles (LCVs) to companies on six-18-month contracts in the first three weeks of January.
Short-term leasing, says Liquid Fleet, gives the flexibility of changing or terminating a company car after six, nine or 12 months without the penalties associated with contract hire cars.
On the back of this growing demand, Liquid Fleet has approached more OEMs to order a few hundred additional vehicles for delivery to customers in March and revisited its annual sales targets.
“Both our corporate and rental customers are more comfortable to commit to six, 12 and 18-months contracts as they simply don’t know how the economy is going to shape up in 2026,” explained James Miller (pictured above), Liquid Fleet’s sales and marketing director.
“Vehicles are now more available from OEMs than this time last year, and we have been speaking to manufacturers about adding a mixed fleet of small, compact and medium cars to the fleet for delivery in March.”
It also noted that the used market experienced a slow start to 2026, with demand and prices proving disappointing in the first two weeks of January, but the market bounced back in week three boosting Liquid Fleet’s disposal programme.
“The used market was slow to get moving in 2026,” said Miller. “To put it into perspective the market achieved an average of £500 more on vehicles in week three of January for 12-month-old/15,000-mile used cars than it did in the first two weeks of the month.”
