Worst Rental you ever got?
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Worst Rental you ever got? I just dropped my car off for it's body work after being run off the highway a couple of weekends ago..When they took me to get my rental there were no cars of equal stature to the Civic so I got an upgrade to Premium and drove off in a 2005 Buick Allure...
It's not the worst rental I got but now I can't stop catchin the eye of every woman over 65 I pass on the streets..lol. I'm tellin ya...You know that when you can get a granny to take a hand off the walker to wave at you passin by that you my friend are a Baller...plain and simple..lol.
So what's the worst rental you ever got?
It's not the worst rental I got but now I can't stop catchin the eye of every woman over 65 I pass on the streets..lol. I'm tellin ya...You know that when you can get a granny to take a hand off the walker to wave at you passin by that you my friend are a Baller...plain and simple..lol.
So what's the worst rental you ever got?
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Originally Posted by PlasmaGT
During college I worked at Enterprise (Rental car place). The worst cars we had were the Hyundai Accent and the Ford Aspire
rofl..they had an accent there but didn't want to ask me to take it..lol
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i work in other states and rent the cars every week...
i have to drive all different suck cars like impala, grand am, classic, those american cars...
i hate it...
i work in other states and rent the cars every week...
i have to drive all different suck cars like impala, grand am, classic, those american cars...
i hate it...
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Rep Power: 583 ive only gotten one rental car ever, and that was a chevy monte carlo. handled like a pig. not much fun to drive on CA mountain roads. but the power wasnt too bad...just very heavy and sluggish handling.
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Originally Posted by pbfoot
ive only gotten one rental car ever, and that was a chevy monte carlo. handled like a pig. not much fun to drive on CA mountain roads. but the power wasnt too bad...just very heavy and sluggish handling.
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civic was in the shop getting body work done - Drove an 05 Cavellier
it was the biggest piece of junk i have ever driven in- always bottomed out - the interior was so cheap and uncomfortable - not to mention when you touched the side mirrors they felt like they were gonna fall off - and this car only had 1000 kms on it
POS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it was the biggest piece of junk i have ever driven in- always bottomed out - the interior was so cheap and uncomfortable - not to mention when you touched the side mirrors they felt like they were gonna fall off - and this car only had 1000 kms on it
POS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Rep Power: 300 worst rental i got was the city bus =) never got one =( honda got me exicted one day and told me if i leave my car over night they would give me one. then they said they only had s2000s... so after talkin to them for a bit about it they said no. and drove me home...
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Rep Power: 434 i don't know about worst rental cars, but when my dad was choosing a new lexus to buy, he came home every other day with a different '03 model (brand new) lexus. the nicest one by far was the es330. the steering input was so cool cause at lower speeds the ratios decreased or something, so when you moved the wheel, lets say, 10 degrees, the car would make a complete u-turn. at speed, however, if you moved the wheel 10 degrees, the car would just move over a little bit.
maybe i'm just crazy
maybe i'm just crazy 
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Rep Power: 0 Its a tie between a Hyundai Accent and a Toyota Echo. Both gutless, although I'd say the Echo was worse with the stupid centre mounted guage cluster.
Just got back from a week in Phoenix and Las Vegas and had a 2005 V6 Mustang as a rental. Was pretty happy with its power (although the build quality left something to be desired). The gas mileage wasn't so good either, but then again I was giving it most of the time.
Just got back from a week in Phoenix and Las Vegas and had a 2005 V6 Mustang as a rental. Was pretty happy with its power (although the build quality left something to be desired). The gas mileage wasn't so good either, but then again I was giving it most of the time.
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Originally Posted by Pharoh
so I got an upgrade to Premium and drove off in a 2005 Buick Allure...
So what's the worst rental you ever got?
So what's the worst rental you ever got?
Worst car I drove was a Kia Spectra .. power nothing and its alignment was shot to hell to boot. Hell I drove a butt ugly yellow four-door Focus and I'd rather be in it than the Spectra. Or the gawd ugly Taurus Wagon.
Though I'd say the best car I driven thus far in the job is the Lincoln LS. Luxury + power = fun
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Originally Posted by Karumba
I've been working at Hertz for about 3 weeks now, and can say that car is not a pleasure. Hopefully that car doesn't have over 17k kms on it .. as there appears to be a slight issue with the front left axle/rod. I've returned two cars already to maintenance due to that issue - which have been flat-bedded back to a dealership.
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Rep Power: 336 i was having the srs module replaced on the vic a couple of months ago, and they gave me a 04 pontiac sunfire coupe. it was red. the handling was that of an elephant and the power sucked so much *** that it got some saliva out the rectum. i liked the paint job, thats about it. and the gas mileage sucked. my only rent a car and i hated it compared to the vic. and the funny part was i opened the glove compartment and found a pic of 2 chicks with a 6th gen civic. POS. and my vic is a 01 and i still consider it superior
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wow. we just went on vacation a couple weeks ago to florida. well heres the story, we went to the rental place and got a brand new stratus which didnt look to bad right so im like hell yeah. but it turns out the stratus had somthing wrong with it so they told my dad they were gonna upgrade us to a better car. my dad goes into this guys office and im stuck in the lobby thinking OH HELL YEAH WE GET THAT RED SRT4 OUTSIDE OMG IM GONNA WALK ALL OVER THAT THING. ITS GONNA HAVE NO TREAD LEFT ON THE TIRES WHEN IM DONE. yeah they upgraded us to a f**king FORD TAURUS! im like DAD GIVE ME THE KEYS IM GONNA GO KICK THERE *** and STEAL that SRT4. by that time everybody in the place was staring at me so i just walked out and we had to drive a TAURUS all week IN FLORIDA! the whole time im taking pictures of Porsche Carrera type S's and Ferrari's. it was so embarrassing.
The only rental car I had wasa 2005 Mazda 6 5-door for two weeks and it was pretty good car. I got it with 116 miles and drove around 3,000 miles with it and it felt pretty good. It was a 4-cyl model with 4-spd sport shift. The engine felt nice above 3000 rpm, althought i didn't like the sport shift that much due to a small lag between shifts. I feel like it could be faster, well at least I am in my 5spd civic. The highway driving was really nice, I made two 900-mile trips (Orlando, Fl to Evansville, In and Evansville, In to Houston, TX) and never got tired at all for driving. The handling was smooth although better tires could help the car handle better. It feels a bit different than the civic at first, but you get used to it and make it handle better through the Ky country roads. Fit and finish was really good, the seats were very good although I think they could've selected slightly better materials for the interiors. Overall the car is very nice and I wouldn't say Mazda makes crappy cars. I would've get one if it wasn't that I prefer other similar but more expensive competitors such as the Subaru Legacy GT and the Acura TSX. Here's a pic of the actual car I drove, which came nicely equipped with 17" wheels, spoiler and side skirts. It was parked while watching the US Navy's Blue Angels at Evansville's Freedom Festival.
Pretty Good for a Rental Car...
Pretty Good for a Rental Car...
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Originally Posted by Pharoh
haha...why you think NASCAR changes up ever few years. They use the Monte and every redneck Jeff Gordon lover buys 'em only to find out the only thing Monte Carlo on the racecar is the nametag..lol. So NASCAR switches up and the dumbass redneck Jeff Gordon lover's trade up for that car..lol. it's a vicious circle of stupidity and incest...rofl.
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Rep Power: 370 A Gold Hyundai Accent! The windshields on those cars are messed! Felt like it was all blurry.... every single person that got in that car with me asked me wtf was with the windshield.
The brakes on that thing was the worst... I would slam on them doing any speed and they would never lock up (no abs either!).
man I kicked the **** out of that thing
The brakes on that thing was the worst... I would slam on them doing any speed and they would never lock up (no abs either!).
man I kicked the **** out of that thing
