Post by rodge on Jan 10, 2021 20:35:34 GMT
My job has meant I’ve been in and have rented a lot of cars in the last few years, but especially in the last year.
The vast majority of these has been in California and I’ve noticed a few trends.
1: All the car companies use established brands for advertising the different classes. Fiesta or similar, Focus or similar, Jetta or similar and so on. I have not rented any of these cars in a long time despite getting compact, standard or full size cars.
2: Every rental company I’ve used- Avis, Dollar, Enterprise, Hertz, Budget- use the same brands. Nissan, Kia and Hyundai as their day to day cars. I’ve not had a Ford in months and had an Audi early last year, but that’s all.
3: Despite deep cleaning, I’ve found that 1 in every 3 cars stinks of weed. This is across all rental companies. Since legalisation, people don’t seem to care about smoking weed in rental cars. A colleague has started refusing cars that smell of it and I’m going to do the same. From now on.
4: Before I got the X5 last year, I used to prefer driving the rental cars that I had. Now, I look forward to getting my own car back. This is a good thing.
The vast majority of these has been in California and I’ve noticed a few trends.
1: All the car companies use established brands for advertising the different classes. Fiesta or similar, Focus or similar, Jetta or similar and so on. I have not rented any of these cars in a long time despite getting compact, standard or full size cars.
2: Every rental company I’ve used- Avis, Dollar, Enterprise, Hertz, Budget- use the same brands. Nissan, Kia and Hyundai as their day to day cars. I’ve not had a Ford in months and had an Audi early last year, but that’s all.
3: Despite deep cleaning, I’ve found that 1 in every 3 cars stinks of weed. This is across all rental companies. Since legalisation, people don’t seem to care about smoking weed in rental cars. A colleague has started refusing cars that smell of it and I’m going to do the same. From now on.
4: Before I got the X5 last year, I used to prefer driving the rental cars that I had. Now, I look forward to getting my own car back. This is a good thing.
