Rental Cars

Rental cars are a whole different breed of animal from regular cars. Rental cars are purchased by car rental companies to be rented out to anyone who walks through their door with a valid credit card and driver's license. These rental cars are usually purchased in bulk from manufacturers and most rental cars are not intended to be luxury models, although some rental cars are exactly that. There are specialty rental car agencies that offer exotic, expensive rental cars, but these are the exception and you pay the price for these rental cars.

Otherwise most rental cars are fairly stripped down, low cost versions of some fairly well known models. When you call a rental car place and ask about rental cars they offer, they can tell you they have this model or that model that you are familiar with so in your mind you are picturing your fairly well appointed car at home, not some bare bones rental car version of the car you know and love. The ploy always works and you feel reassured about the rental car that you might receive so you proceed with your rental car reservation and eventually see what you are really renting when you go to the agency to pick it up.

Rental cars are like an alternate universe. Rental cars just don't make much sense. You know that rental cars are the cheapest thing the agency could buy and that they are doing the bare minimum amount of maintenance t keep their rental cars on the road, but you need to double your daily cost for the rental car by purchasing special insurance from the car rental agency just so they won't tack a couple of extra hundred dollar charge on your credit card when you return the rental car. Rental cars are already all covered in scratches and dings, but if you put on one more, you are going to get charged an arm and a leg, so to speak. But you money never goes to repair the scratches or dings because they are always there, so where does all that extra money go?

Actually, I feel sorry for rental cars. Nobody loves rental cars. Everybody expects them to be trouble free and get them where they want to go and not spoil their vacation, but nobody is proud of their rental car. And certainly, nobody cares for rental cars the way they do for their own car. and everybody abuses rental cars. They feel that they got ripped off by the rental car agency on that extra damage insurance so they might as well get their money's worth so nobody is careful with their rental car and rental cars suffer for it.

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