Do rental cars get driven hard?
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Over in the Hertz bankruptcy thread, the thread veered at one point into discussing whether rental cars are driven hard.
Today, I learn that Porsche has a subscription program that lets subscribers change cars (from a limited menu of all Porsches, of course) as frequently as they like, for one flat monthly subscription fee:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/business/porsche-drive-subscription-service.html
And they are continuing plans to expand into more cities even during the pandemic.
I am not a car person, so it surprises that there is a market for that sort of business model, more or less like Rent-A-Runway surprised me when I first learnt about it. :man-shrugging:
If it were you rotating through a fleet of Porches using a subscription like this, will you drive them hard, maybe even flooring them every chance you get?
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@Axtremus said in Do rental cars get driven hard?:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/business/porsche-drive-subscription-service.html
The two subscription programs offer a limited fleet of models, Launch, or a more diverse fleet, Accelerate. Cars within the $2,100-a-month Launch fleet include Boxster, Boxster S, Cayman, Cayman S sportsters, the Panamera four-door, and Macan, Macan S and Cayenne S.U.V.s. An additional $1,000 a month for the Accelerate fleet gets access to GTS versions of the Boxster and Cayman, Panamera 4S and E-Hybrid, Macan GTS, Cayenne S and various 911 models, including convertibles.
So, for $25K a year, you can rent a Porsche if you're cheap.
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I shared my view in the other thread. Nobody pays $$$ to rent a high end sports car without getting their money's worth.
But your average business renter who gets the Camry or the Ford Focus probably drives like does his own car.
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I shared my view in the other thread. Nobody pays $$$ to rent a high end sports car without getting their money's worth.
But your average business renter who gets the Camry or the Ford Focus probably drives like does his own car.
@jon-nyc said in Do rental cars get driven hard?:
I shared my view in the other thread. Nobody pays $$$ to rent a high end sports car without getting their money's worth.
But your average business renter who gets the Camry or the Ford Focus probably drives like does his own car.
Yep.
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