Many car hire companies offer hybrid models – for a price
No doubt, car hire companies large and small have responded to increased consumer demand for fuel efficiency in the last few years by stocking up on gasoline-electric hybrids and other vehicles with better mileage and lower emissions. But whether or not these car hire companies [...]
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Car rental companies green up
Posted in car rental, tagged Advantage Rent-a-Car, airport, airport rental, airport rental station, Alamo, Avis, budget, Buick, car hire, car rental, car rentals, cars, economy cars, Enterprise, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Ford, Francisco, fuel efficiency, gasoline-electric hybrids, green car rentals, Hertz, hybrid models, Hyundai, National, Nissan, rent a car, rental car, rental car company, rental locations, rental vehicles, SmartWay certification, Terra Pass, Toyota, vehicles, Yosemite National Park on February 28, 2009 | Comments Off
Balancing fleet size results in sales drop
Posted in car hire, tagged auto industry, automakers, car hire, car hire companies, cars, fleet, fleet buyers, fleet sales, rent a car, rental, rental car, rental car company, rental companies, used vehicle, vehicle sales, vehicles on January 27, 2009 | Comments Off
The vehicles in a rental car company’s lineup might have a few more miles on them nowadays. And there are likely fewer cars, pickups, sport utility vehicles and minivans on rental lots than just a few years ago.
Automakers say they are selling fewer vehicles to rental companies and fleet buyers, like corporations and governments. Car [...]
Best and worst destinations for holiday car hire
Posted in car rental, tagged Austria, broker, car, car hire, car rental, car rental broker, cars, Chile, Costa Rica, drivers, driving in Spain, hire, hire a car, holiday, holiday car hire, holiday car rental, Ireland, managing director, Mexico, nationality, Spain, survey, Switzerland, vehicles on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some countries are worse than others when it comes to holiday car rental accidents, according to new statistics.
Research by holiday car rental broker CarDelMar reveals that Chile is the worst place in the world to hire a car – with the highest percentage of returned damaged cars (7.7 per cent).
This is more than 25 times [...]
