What's the best holiday hire car you've had?
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Yacht Broker said:
I am in the US right now driving coast-to-coast (East to West).
Here is my humble little hire car rented through Avis.
Brand new (ie. less than 200 miles on it when I picked it up) Maserati Ghibli Twin Turbo.
Best not ask the cost, especially factoring in the 'One way hire' supplement.
I know the cost because swmbo said after the corvette, let's have that one next shall we. Then I looked it up.... Err yes, but no...
Sounds the nuts in sports mode. The yanks can't get enough of it. I've been stopped so many times by people wanting to know what it is etc
Here is my humble little hire car rented through Avis.
Brand new (ie. less than 200 miles on it when I picked it up) Maserati Ghibli Twin Turbo.
Best not ask the cost, especially factoring in the 'One way hire' supplement.
I know the cost because swmbo said after the corvette, let's have that one next shall we. Then I looked it up.... Err yes, but no...
Sounds the nuts in sports mode. The yanks can't get enough of it. I've been stopped so many times by people wanting to know what it is etc
t build and poor bhp to mpg would start to grate but the top spec kia sportage we had in ibiza was seriously impressive so much so we are seriously considering one for the mrs.Yacht Broker said:
I am in the US right now driving coast-to-coast (East to West).
Here is my humble little hire car rented through Avis.
Brand new (ie. less than 200 miles on it when I picked it up) Maserati Ghibli Twin Turbo.
Best not ask the cost, especially factoring in the 'One way hire' supplement.
Sounds the nuts in sports mode. The yanks can't get enough of it. I've been stopped so many times by people wanting to know what it is etc
Sorry, you can't just win the thread and not give more details... It doesn't work like that!Here is my humble little hire car rented through Avis.
Brand new (ie. less than 200 miles on it when I picked it up) Maserati Ghibli Twin Turbo.
Best not ask the cost, especially factoring in the 'One way hire' supplement.
Sounds the nuts in sports mode. The yanks can't get enough of it. I've been stopped so many times by people wanting to know what it is etc
Pickup/drop off locations
Length of trip
COST!
Poverty spec hire Mustang V6 ; did 3000 miles across Carolinas, Georgia , Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama in 2 weeks. Thought it would have a gutless wheezy 180bhp or something - instead it had a lovely sounding and creamy 305bhp and effortless go. Nice to dawdle in too - loved it, even though I know I should say it was rubbish and that real men drive V8s etc. Super auto too. Not a sports car per se but a real mile muncher and for lad from a Yorkshire pit village who fell in love with the blues in '68 , driving a bloody Mustang! down Highway 61! through cotton fields! at Clarksdale ! was more than special .
By way of contrast a maximum attack across Raticosa pass in a Panda on 155/80s was fun....
By way of contrast a maximum attack across Raticosa pass in a Panda on 155/80s was fun....
HotJambalaya said:
Yacht Broker said:
I am in the US right now driving coast-to-coast (East to West).
Here is my humble little hire car rented through Avis.
Brand new (ie. less than 200 miles on it when I picked it up) Maserati Ghibli Twin Turbo.
Best not ask the cost, especially factoring in the 'One way hire' supplement.
Sounds the nuts in sports mode. The yanks can't get enough of it. I've been stopped so many times by people wanting to know what it is etc
Sorry, you can't just win the thread and not give more details... It doesn't work like that!Here is my humble little hire car rented through Avis.
Brand new (ie. less than 200 miles on it when I picked it up) Maserati Ghibli Twin Turbo.
Best not ask the cost, especially factoring in the 'One way hire' supplement.
Sounds the nuts in sports mode. The yanks can't get enough of it. I've been stopped so many times by people wanting to know what it is etc
Pickup/drop off locations
Length of trip
COST!
the C7 we had, was supposed to have been 2240 for two weeks, but they offered it at a snip, meaning as above 728 for the fortnight, Im guessing something similar here, best guess, $1k.
Mustang Convertible in Canada, drove through the Rockies roof down.
BMW Z3 Convertible (back in the day). Drove around the South Island of New Zealand one February roof down the whole way.
The latter was the best. A superb experience. Although the Icefields Parkway in the Rockies in the Mustang was very, very special too.
BMW Z3 Convertible (back in the day). Drove around the South Island of New Zealand one February roof down the whole way.
The latter was the best. A superb experience. Although the Icefields Parkway in the Rockies in the Mustang was very, very special too.
I had an Audi A1 S in the south of France a few years back. Great little car for exploring the mountain roads with loads of grip and decent enough power from it's 1.4T engine.
Audi A1 on the Col De Turini by Alastair Cummins, on Flickr
Since then I have had some staggeringly gutless POS! The year after the Audi I had a 1.2 Punto with about 50bhp at sea level, let alone 2500m up! A year later I had a 1.4TD 208 which had the most lag, for the least amount of power I have ever experienced!
Audi A1 on the Col De Turini by Alastair Cummins, on FlickrSince then I have had some staggeringly gutless POS! The year after the Audi I had a 1.2 Punto with about 50bhp at sea level, let alone 2500m up! A year later I had a 1.4TD 208 which had the most lag, for the least amount of power I have ever experienced!
What I should have done is the R34 from these guys: http://fun2drive.co.jp/ on the Hakone Skyline this year, Skyline on the Skyline.
What I actually did was the Hakone Skyline in a Nissan Wingroad, which wasn't horrid and at least it was a manual NA petrol.
What I actually did was the Hakone Skyline in a Nissan Wingroad, which wasn't horrid and at least it was a manual NA petrol.
Not necessarily the best, but the most curious:
I once hired a Mazda 6 in Ireland with damage to every panel... including the roof(!). Not sure how you managed that one, previous driver, but well-played.
It's enormously liberating, not giving a stuff about the state you return a hire car in.
I once hired a Mazda 6 in Ireland with damage to every panel... including the roof(!). Not sure how you managed that one, previous driver, but well-played.
It's enormously liberating, not giving a stuff about the state you return a hire car in.
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