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Do rental cars get driven hard?

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  • AxtremusA Away
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    Axtremus
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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.

      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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        Rental cars get driven like a $2 whore.

        “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

        Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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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.

          Only non-witches get due process.

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          • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

            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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            @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.

            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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