beaver34
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| posted on 12/8/13 at 07:11 PM |
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car rental in america
wanting to do a road trip next year in america, west coast.
need to hire a car but want something memorably fun and fast
any tips and good places to use? hertz has a corvette convertible for £700 for a week which sounds too good to be true when a boxster is 2k?
thanks
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chrism
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| posted on 12/8/13 at 07:24 PM |
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Is it a corvette convertible or a chevrolet convertible?
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A little hard work never killed anyone, but why take the risk!
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david_hornet27
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| posted on 12/8/13 at 07:25 PM |
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Can't give you a tip for what car to hire but I was there a couple of years ago driving from east coast to west coast and after much research
found Hertz to be the most competitive. I hired a Mitsubishi Eclipse purely because the journey was 2500+ miles and it was pretty frugal (in USA
terms) and had a soft roof. If I could have had any car I would have gone for either a Dodge Viper or Ford Mustang. Maybe next time...
'If everything seems under control you're just not going fast enough' - Mario Andretti
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JoelP
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| posted on 12/8/13 at 07:27 PM |
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I saw under the impression that it's cheaper to get one at the airport, as the different companies will compete for the sale.
Beware! Bourettes is binfectious.
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beaver34
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| posted on 12/8/13 at 07:28 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by chrism
Is it a corvette convertible or a chevrolet convertible?
on the right on here
http://www.hertz.co.uk/rentacar/vehicleguide/index.jsp?targetPage=vehicleGuideHomeView.jsp&countryCode=US&category=Adrenaline%20Collection
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chrism
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| posted on 12/8/13 at 07:33 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by beaver34
quote:
Originally posted by chrism
Is it a corvette convertible or a chevrolet convertible?
on the right on here
http://www.hertz.co.uk/rentacar/vehicleguide/index.jsp?targetPage=vehicleGuideHomeView.jsp&countryCode=US&category=Adrenaline%20Collection
Yeah was having a look, you can get a Chevy Camaro SS for £420 or a mustang for similar.
Actually scratch that get the Dodge Challenger.
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david_hornet27
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| posted on 12/8/13 at 07:37 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by chrism
quote:
Originally posted by beaver34
quote:
Originally posted by chrism
Is it a corvette convertible or a chevrolet convertible?
on the right on here
http://www.hertz.co.uk/rentacar/vehicleguide/index.jsp?targetPage=vehicleGuideHomeView.jsp&countryCode=US&category=Adrenaline%20Collection
Yeah was having a look, you can get a Chevy Camaro SS for £420 or a mustang for similar.
Actually scratch that get the Dodge Challenger.
+1 for the Challenger! 
'If everything seems under control you're just not going fast enough' - Mario Andretti
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DanG
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| posted on 12/8/13 at 07:40 PM |
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Hi
I have done the West Coast a few times. San Fran, LA and San Diego and bits in between. Cars have incl the Hertz Shelby Mustang and a Camaro.
Hertz Fun Collection was what I went for each time.
I have always booked prior to going. If you go for whatever the top model is in the Fun Collection you do get very well looked after by Hertz when
you arrive. No queues just walked to your car. Whatever you book you can always swap and change based on what they have available there. So you can
see what takes your fancy just to make sure you get what you want.
The Shelby was great for the soft top but the hard top Camaro was a good drive too.
Many will tell you what a waste of money it is when you can hire cars much cheaper in the US but for me it was a big part of my holiday - and worth
every cent.
If you get the chance go to Laguna Seca race circuit. Well worth seeing the corkscrew drop for real. Just gutted you don't get the chance to
go out on track :-)
You can take your own SatNav but the Hertz Satnav was a great option but again they will charge for this.
Watch out for the one way drop off fee from Hertz (approx. USD150). I never got round this but as with the rest of the expense I simply wrote it off
in my mind as what I had to spend to get what I wanted for my holiday.
Any specific questions send me U2U.
Have a great holiday.
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yahshuatwo
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| posted on 12/8/13 at 07:47 PM |
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quote:
I saw under the impression that it's cheaper to get one at the airport, as the different companies will compete for the sale.
Nope. Its not cheaper at the airport. Find a rental office in the destination city far away from the airport for the best rates. Sometimes you can
go directly to the auto dealership and rentl cars cheaper. I recently rented a Toyota Prius (Hybrid) directly from the dealership and got an awesome
deal on a weendend rental.
Ryan
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luke2152
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| posted on 12/8/13 at 07:49 PM |
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Some of the muscle cars on offer from the mainstream companies have rather pathetic engines. 3L v6 if I remember right in a challenger.
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Fred W B
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| posted on 12/8/13 at 08:04 PM |
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Some previous discussion
here
Cheers
Fred W B
[Edited on 12/8/13 by Fred W B]
You can do it quickly. You can do it cheap. You can do it right. – Pick any two.
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Doctor Derek Doctors
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| posted on 13/8/13 at 07:19 AM |
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We hired a Mustang GT (415 BHP) in Phoenix from the Hertz fun collection, it cost hardly any more than a Mondeo and was ace fun. Just keep searching
the website and sometimes crazy low prices pop up for certain cars in certain places.
Also we noticed that weekday hire was dirt cheap for the supercars so if you could do the trip Monday-Friday you would save a shed load of money.
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Texan
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| posted on 14/8/13 at 03:49 AM |
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Yes, check away from the Airport and probably Hertz is the only one to offer you fun cars except for the exotic car rental places which are not really
meant for long drives.
Where do you intend to go? I'm just outside Fort Worth, Texas. If you are headed near that direction give me a call and I'll show you
around.
I drive therefore I am.
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swanny
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| posted on 14/8/13 at 07:53 AM |
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we booked a sebring convertible on Kauai (hawaiin island) and spotted a mustang convertible parked up, and asked if we could have that instead.
"No problem" worth getting something fun, as its definately one of the things we both remember about that holiday.
though i must confess having only ever had kit car convertibles i didnt want to take the roof off until i'd had a chance to read the manual to
see how to do it, thinking 'poles to dissasemble, velro to attach, special hidden clips etc' to which my wife said, "isnt it that
big button on the dashboard?"
it turns out that technology has moved on a bit since i started buying kit cars.
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eznfrank
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| posted on 15/8/13 at 02:22 PM |
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I hired a Dodge Viper in Vegas a few years back as per my post HERE. Only had it
for an hour for the bargain price of around £100 including insurance, was a good laugh though and well worth it. And as luck would have it I took it
back and went straight into the next casino and won over $150 off a 25c bet so more or less paid for it
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coyoteboy
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| posted on 15/8/13 at 05:54 PM |
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All these cars are as cheap as chips in the US, unlike a Boxter so it's no wonder the rental is less 
That said, it's pointless hiring a fast car unless you just wanna chill in it. I got pulled doing 5mph over the limit at night in the middle of
the corn fields in the middle of nowhere in Minnesota.
That said, they pointed out they couldn't do anything with me other than issue a warning.
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