by Ambrose Clancy
Published in Long Island Business News: February 26, 2010

Thinking about making an impressive entrance?

Here’s an idea: Pull up in a 40- foot-long, 9-foot-high snow-white limo. Glide to a stop opening all three “jet doors” which are hinged at the top so they open up, not out. Smoke wafts to the street from the teak wood inlaid dance floor, complete with center pole where even partiers over 6 feet can stand up straight to boogie. Wrapped in a billowing fog cut by lasers, you step out with your favorite sound deafening all before it at 2,000 watts.

Oh, be sure to have 24 of your friends ready to exit, including the five who are lounging on the rear, open-air patio.

If you can wait six weeks for a booking, the H2 Hummer limo, dubbed “The Transformer” and brought to you by Royal Luxury Limousine, is all yours for $300 an hour. With the local New York limousine business trying to stay out of a recession-created ditch, there’s method in the unique madness of The Transformer, said Mark Bauer. The one-of-a-kind ride was created by Royal Limo and put together by a Brooklyn shop (Top Limo NY Coachbuilders)  for about $300,000. Jaws having been dropping at the sight of the thing for the past two months.

“You’ve got to come up with something different, something people haven’t seen before, to stay afloat,” said Bauer, who owns 10 vehicles serving New York City, Long Island, Westchester and New Jersey. “And if you can stay afloat, you’ll make it.”

He buys new vehicles every year, he said. Joining The Transformer is an Audi Q7 limo which features a fish tank and fireplace.

The limousine business lost up to 40 percent from corporate clients slashing budgets last year and about 25 percent from weddings, said Matt Silver, vice president of The Nassau Suffolk Limousine Association, representing about 100 companies.

Silver noted that Long Island has crashed even harder than the rest of the country because of the dense population and the number of firms operating here.

But he has seen a pick-up of about 5 percent this year over last so there are signs the limo business might be back in gear.

In another marketing boost, Royal Luxury Limousine is taking center stage in two reality TV shows currently shooting and debuting this spring. One of them is America’s Next Top Model.

Business has been off but is beginning to come back, he said. “People are always going to get married.”

Driver Dominick Bonilla said he still isn’t quite used to the public’s reaction to The Hummer Transformer. “Every time out it’s an adventure,” Bonilla said from behind the wheel of the behemoth.

He described cruising Times Square with the windows open, the music pumping and the back patio full of partiers, as driving through a dream.

“Wherever we go, people flock to us like we have the cure for the plague or something,” Bonilla said.

This car is beautiful with blinged out Asanti Wheels that must have cost about $15,000, white paint, suicide door that the driver can close from up in front cabin, this is a top of the line stretch limousine and probably the most expensive stretch limousine ever built.

If you are in the market of renting other limos while you are in New York, check out New York Limos service.

So, there are three reasons why it is best to wash your car at a commercial car wash versus the soapy bucket at home. Each reason is a “green” reason.

1.) Washing your car at “home” uses more water. There have been several studies that show that much more water is used when washing the car at home because most people leave the hose running. Commercial car washes will filter and reuse the water several times before it is disposed. Also, commercial car washes use the Bernoulli principle to provide higher pressure using less water thus conserving water even if the water isn’t filtered and reused.

2.) Car wash soaps contain chemicals that can be harmful to the environment. Commercial car washes must contain traps to collect the soaps and waxes used to be properly disposed of and prevent them from being washed into the ecosystem. Unless you have installed such traps at your location, the dirty soap water is often flushed into the storm gutters and transferred to the creeks, rivers, lake, ponds, rivers, etc and can damage the ecology there.

3.) The road grime you are washing off can also contain chemicals. Now, to me, this one isn’t as important since these chemicals did come of the road anyway and with a good rain will be washed away into the streams, but it is still something worth considering. Again, a commercial car wash will collect these chemicals from the road grime so that they may be disposed of properly. This will help reduce the amount that is flushed into the streams with a good rainfall.

I cannot see how a company that does not use a commercial car wash or impliment a commercial car was system at their fleet facility can consider themselves “green” if they are stating that they are “Green.” Yes, there is more to being “Green” than just car washing, but it is still a factor that is relatively simple concept.

I still believe that being called a “green company” is just a gimmick and will pass with time…like El Nino and the Ozone Hole…and that going “green” is just this decade’s way for scientists to continue working in the academic arena.

Comments written by New York Limo Service

As you can see, huge differences. Same type of service, much different price and quality. That is why you never go with cheaper limos.

Remember! You get what you pay for.

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Before you go all out, spending on a so called ‘reputed’ limo service, it is essential that you know what makes a good limo rental service in New York, a ‘good’ or ‘reputed’  NY limousine service. To cut a long story short, there are three basic features which one must look for in a limo rental service.
The first priority is obviously the type of car which is used – is it a recent model or is it outdated? Is the limousine fully fitted with only the basic amenities or are there other attractive luxuries on board? The overall maintenance of the limo is significant and must be top notch.
The second key feature is the driver behind the wheel. The driver plays an important role in the overall experience of hiring an NY limo rental service. Does the driver know all the possible routes and is he capable enough to steer away from traffic congestions? Personal qualities of the chauffeurs also play an important part in communications with the clients. Qualities such as politeness and punctuality for example help in keeping the passengers at comfort which speaks volumes about a particular limo rental service. Limo services these days work really hard to ensure that their crew is polished and maintain the highest standards in any aspect.
The third feature, which though not as important, does have some value – does the company offer any extra value added features such as free rides, free services or seasonal discounts? What does the company offer which no other rental service offer, making it unique?
Eventually, a limo rental service will also depend on your budget. The more you are willing to spend on a limo, the better and more luxurious will be your experience.

However, certain limo rentals offers the same services as others at comparatively lesser rates and these are deals which you must not wish. Renting a limo adds dollops of fun to a boring wedding or the usual Prom night. Renting limos makes a party more appealing than one without one. Just imagine taking your Prom date for a ride in a limo for a night or your beloved wife after a wedding. Money cannot buy love, but it can definitely help in increasing fun and romance in a relationship.
We at Royal Luxury have been in the limo rental business in New York, long enough to give our clients, the best.

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• Other companies lower down their prices by sacrificing quality.  They dont screen their drivers, they dont care about what drivers do in their down time.  They use cheap sodas from Stop & Shop or any other discounted store. You get refreshments like grape soda instead of CocaCola, you get some cheap lime soda instead of SPRITE, etc.
• Other companies & drivers don’t care what people do in the car (like smoke) - and then you get into that limo that smells really bad
• Other companies don’t clean their cars, carpets smell like beer, drivers dont care
• Other companies have drivers that are on the phone all the time and dont pay too much attention to the road or the clients in the back
• Other companies employee drivers that wear jeans and t-shirt while they drive their clients
• Other companies employee drivers that dont know the language
• Other companies don’t want to spend money to put GPS/Navigation in their cars and drivers get lost all the time, sometimes that is the reason why they are late
• Other companies cars are scratched, scuffed, etc. outside and they dont bother fixing it. The limo looks like crap when it pulls up to the client’s destination
• Most important fact is that other companies that offer cheap prices - DONT HAVE APPROPRIATE PERMITS.

As you see that is what competition does to lower down prices. BUT that is not the story with Royal Luxury Limousine.  We do all the right steps to make sure that you are getting a 120% service and you come back to us in the future. In the mean time, please check out our latest specials at September Deals Page