A Mustang is perfect for 2 people on a long (2 weeks+ trip) or 3 people for a few day. On our trips (3 weeks) after cases (boot) and hand luggage / day bags (back seats) and us (front seats) there simply wouldn't be anywhere for someone else to sit.
Road Tripping in the USA!
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Well no
It's tolerable on a 2 week trip, it isn't perfect. It's something you do once for the novelty factor because novelty aside it's fairly crap.
Well no
It's tolerable on a 2 week trip, it isn't perfect. It's something you do once for the novelty factor because novelty aside it's fairly crap.
Am I going to be thoroughly hacked off with it after 4 weeks? My only frame of reference is a 2005 MINI Cooper S though as that's the newest car I've ever had. The 2017 Mustang is going to feel like a futuristic spaceship in comparison surely?
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The V8 will be fun but it's still a common every day car. You won't dislike it.Am I going to be thoroughly hacked off with it after 4 weeks? My only frame of reference is a 2005 MINI Cooper S though as that's the newest car I've ever had. The 2017 Mustang is going to feel like a futuristic spaceship in comparison surely?
It's incredibly unlikely to be a V8.
Booking a convertible (Mustang or similar) is likely to get you a 2L 4 pot Ecoboost or maybe the V6 if you are unlucky (which has the same bhp as the Ecoboost). You'd need to specifically pay more and book a V8 if you want one.
Renting V8 Mustangs must be the most lucrative business model going, people pay astonishingly stupid daily rates for them even though they are not expensive to buy.
I drove off the lot in a $60,000 Cadillac once and the daily rate was half that of cheaper to buy V8 Mustang parked a few stalls over...
I'd argue you shouldn't need a V8 either for the types of trips people are talking about here.
I owned a V8 Mustang and at no point during the 10,000 miles of driving I've done in the US in a V6 / Ecoboost Mustang did I wish I had a V8. The idea of a Mustang in the US is to cruise around posing in front of cool scenery - the Ecoboost is still 300bhp so hardly slow compared with the 1.4l Astra's people rent in the UK.
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I understand why people hire Mustangs, but I went for the 'big old SUV' option instead this time, because it honestly appeals to me more. I'm weird like that.
We had a Ford Explorer - it was big enough for 4 adults and 3 childrenFull-size "Tahoe or similar" SUV booked for Florida. I hope they are as enormous as they look
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/road-tripping-in-the-usa.18227057/page-23#post-30874240
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That looks suitably obnoxious! Hoping I get the Tahoe though!
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wow, they only appear to have a couple of crusty old 737s
It was a much smaller plane than that, it's a 40 minute flight to a tiny airport?
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Wrong Vision. My bad 
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I'm now on the California leg of my trip. Hire car is a Chevvy Camaro SS, and I've got it for the next two weeks. It's nice. Decently powerful. The automatic gearbox is dreadful. Whenever I put my foot down, it just makes the engine rev really high and then the car lurches forwards after about a second. Fortunately, it does have a flappy paddle mode, which is much more pleasant to drive.
I'm not sure if the car is really wide, or Californian/American roads have really narrow lanes and parking spaces.
I'm not sure if the car is really wide, or Californian/American roads have really narrow lanes and parking spaces.
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Last time I hired in USA we had paper counterpart licence, now it has been abolished, is it worth generating a shared licence code from the DVLA?
Or will Avis literally not care as long as I have my normal photo card licence, passport and credit card?
Or will Avis literally not care as long as I have my normal photo card licence, passport and credit card?
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They won't know or care about it. US licenses are just a card so they never used to ask for the paper counterpart anyway.
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Cheers! Makes it easier!