X-PENG P7. Lacks few basic features, decent drive, overall good looking car.
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Passat Wagon - Pickup National Frankfurt Germany, drop-off Munich. Reserved full size wagon manual (Passat). Pickup was painful - a few different overnight flights from states arrived at same time, Avis/Budget/enterprise/national lines were slammed, Sixt was practically empty. Executive status was given an upgrade “automatic” - last time they upgraded me to XC60, I should have pushed harder. Price discrepancy, they tried to add a one way drop-off to the agreement, even though I had the pickup/dropoff defined when I made the reservation. When I chose the same drop-off the price dropped significantly, I used that as my justification for push back. They removed it; however they would not budget on ‘out of country fee’. I disclosed I was going to France and Switzerland. Hindsight I should have just been quiet; however, it was only about 4 euro per day add on, and at this point I just really wanted to leave. He said it was “new” but it had like 20k miles, so not exactly new but was in good shape except the missing cover on the gas cap, tab was broken and they left it in the trunk area. Overall a comfortable car, fairly capable on the autobahn at high speeds, good fuel economy, plenty of room for a family of 4 and our luggage. I would take this over a compact suv any day. No surprises at drop-off.
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Hope that giant dent was previously there
This thing has seen better days. Starting to rust in some spots as well.
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DS 4 from Enterprise. Funky looking inside and out and averaged 5L/100km (47 MPG US) from a 130hp 1.5 diesel and 8-speed auto. Booked a Renault Clio or similar, so it could have been worse!
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$320 including taxes/fees from Budget for 5 day rental in Charlotte, NC. Used Costco for the rental. Equinox was ok as a rental, but I wouldn’t want to own one.
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Columbus for the Ohio State-Texas game #1 v. #2/3.
Booked one month ago with Avis through Costco for a 2025 Z71 Suburban with 5k miles. $571 for a full week with PC, one week ago that went to $1300.
Not bad. Great game, great crowd and Corso’s last game.
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Was in Manchester for the week. Renault Symbioz. Really complex drivetrain and was a nice car. About 50 mpg and I drove it hard.
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Was cheaper to Turo this Model Y Performance than go with any other big brand rental company for my latest NorCal trip. Overall not a bad car, pickup/drop off were super easy.
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Did you say something? That’s ridiculous.
FWIW, I feel the rental car scene used to be an exciting experience walking into the lot..today there is absolutely nothing at all. There are no great cars anymore, even if you want to upgrade. A few years ago there used to be just about anything that you could imagine on the lot.
Generic description. What class did you book?
The description on the reservation was just “luxury car” and I think gave a 3 Series or A4 as examples. The receipt shows the class charged as “Luxury 2 door/Automatic/Air” which is equally generic being that I don’t think that really exists.
Yeah. Was told an hour+ wait for a chance at what I reserved.
End of the day weather was okay enough in MI for FWD to do the trick and this was maybe $45 a day or so. I assumed snow so I thought the solution was to try and rent the biggest car they would give me 
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It was dirt cheap though - Hersheysweet corporate codes goated!
So you technically got an upgrade then. Nice