Market for hot hatch rental?
Discussion
"Hot hatches" seem to have come on leaps and bounds over the past few years and appears to be a popular bracket of car and are huge fun
Is there a market for renting these sorts of cars, I.e. on a self drive basis? Sort of cars I'm thinking of are Clio RS, swift sports, cooper S, abarth 500, Ibiza Cupra, Polo GTI, that sort of thing.
Lots of talk about having just as much, if not more fun in something like this than you can in many cars costing 5 or 6 times their value.
The sports car hire is going well as an affordable choice for many, and just thinking of other niches to possibly look into.
Cheers, Mark
Is there a market for renting these sorts of cars, I.e. on a self drive basis? Sort of cars I'm thinking of are Clio RS, swift sports, cooper S, abarth 500, Ibiza Cupra, Polo GTI, that sort of thing.
Lots of talk about having just as much, if not more fun in something like this than you can in many cars costing 5 or 6 times their value.
The sports car hire is going well as an affordable choice for many, and just thinking of other niches to possibly look into.
Cheers, Mark
They will depreciate very quickly.
They will get caned to death, and with the best will in the world, cars from those manufacturers will quite quickly wear out - especially consumables.
Would someone hire a hot hatch just to blat around on the road? Or would they hire one and go off to do a track day without telling you?
To make it pay I would imagine you'd have to charge quite a bit - and if the hire of a Supercar isn't much more expensive, I would imagine most people would do that instead.
Any idea how much you would charge on a daily basis? Have you done any sums yet?
They will get caned to death, and with the best will in the world, cars from those manufacturers will quite quickly wear out - especially consumables.
Would someone hire a hot hatch just to blat around on the road? Or would they hire one and go off to do a track day without telling you?
To make it pay I would imagine you'd have to charge quite a bit - and if the hire of a Supercar isn't much more expensive, I would imagine most people would do that instead.
Any idea how much you would charge on a daily basis? Have you done any sums yet?
rb5er said:
I thought about this with older cars from the 80's and 90's. Must be a market but maintenance etc might make it unviable unless charging quite a bit or charging extra per mm of wear on the tyres etc.
I prefer this idea. Problem is they'll just end up in a ditch/wrapped around lamppost.
Eighteeteewhy said:
I prefer this idea. Problem is they'll just end up in a ditch/wrapped around lamppost.
Indeed, I think you would pick up a lot of speeding tickets on your fleet too, even though it would be easy to tell who was driving and when as you'd have a rental log, it would be a big hassle.People rent supercars for the experience as much as for the performance, but renting hot hatches are likely just to thrape them, since driving a hot hatch slowly isn't much different an "experience" to driving a bog spec model slowly.
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