Road Tripping in the USA!
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Errr no. It might very well be a great rental car but it won't be reasonable money. Expect it to incur a daily rate well over the top for it's list price.
Rental firms must love the V8 Mustangs, barely any more money than an Ecoboost yet they can rent them out to tourists at enormous daily rates.
Renting a large SUV or Luxury Sedan with a list price of often twice the amount is often much, much cheaper. The yield on the V8's must be incredible
Renting a large SUV or Luxury Sedan with a list price of often twice the amount is often much, much cheaper. The yield on the V8's must be incredible
It doesn't cost more if you rent a V6/Ecoboost though which is pretty much the same. I've done the Mustang thing over there and I doubt a V8 would have made my experience three times as good as the 300bhp Cabrio I rented, yet it was three times the price.
The regular 'Stangs are everywhere at sensible money.
Personally I dislike SUV's and don't rent them but there is nothing 'godawful and generic' about an 6 litre V8 Tahoe, that's almost as 'American experience' as the Mustang!!
The regular 'Stangs are everywhere at sensible money.
Personally I dislike SUV's and don't rent them but there is nothing 'godawful and generic' about an 6 litre V8 Tahoe, that's almost as 'American experience' as the Mustang!!
Overall of course you are right but proportionally those paying excessive money for Hertz V8's will be leisure not business travellers.
Business travellers will be renting Midsize but picking a V6 Camaro from the Executive Aisle at National thanks to the frequent renter benefits
WA will work fine with a new SIM in it. If anyone calls you on your non Three number you don't want to answer it anyway as incoming calls = £££
Well yea, because it's WhatsApp and it's using data.
I set my phone to 3g only and it was absolutely fine and perfectly usable.
I just about fitted two large holdall style bags into the boot. It's a tight squeeze, especially for 4 weeks.
Olly lives in the US so would have seen this question in the same light as we'd have seen 'Hi, I'm coming to the UK on holiday and would really like to pay a huge pile of money to rent a vehicle like a Ford Transit LWB', hence his reply
The ones I've seen on rental lots have had no rear deck cover either so there is very little luggage space as you can't use the rear deck for storage.The reality is that as others have said you'll get a far better deal on a far better car by renting a fullsize SUV which will probably land you a Chevrolet Tahoe or a GMC Yukon. It'll be massive, it'll probably have black paint, it'll have a V8 under the bonnet and it'll be just as American as that F150.
I have never had an issue with Three throttling data. I've no idea what its like if you want to stream Netflix or download 2gb files or something but for web browsing and google maps it's absolutely fine and I didn't notice any real issues.