RE: Fly Out Of Heathrow In An Evora

[soxboy]

Rower said:

Is it just an Apocryphal story that in the late 60's Hertz had a fleet Shelby Mustangs that were often hired stickered up and raced for the week end and returned on Monday slightly tired ?

Rower

No, it's true. It was the Shelby GT350H, the H standing for Hertz, 1000 cars produced in black with gold stripes.

Not only were many raced, it is alleged a number were returned with inferior running gear to what was in it before they were hired out....

From Wikipedia:
1966 Hertz ModelsShelby struck a deal with the Hertz Corporation to produce a special line of G.T. 350s for rent that, after their rental-car lives were finished, were returned to Ford, refurbished, and sold to the public. These "GT 350-H" cars[9] are much sought-after today, with some examples selling for more than $200,000.

Shelby produced 1,003 of these cars. Most Hertz cars featured gold LeMans stripes and rocker panel stripes, although a few were white with blue stripes. The first 85 Hertz cars were available with four-speed manual transmissions and Hertz advertised them as "Rent-a-Racer" cars.[10] During rental, these cars were sometimes used as production class cars at SCCA events, and were rumored to have been returned to Hertz with evidence of roll bars being welded in.[10] Hertz ordered the last 800 models with black paint, gold stripes and black interior, as well as automatic transmissions.

When the Hertz cars were returned to Ford to be prepared for sale to the public, the high-performance parts were often "lost" (presumably at the manufacturer) before final sale.

[Ellieb10]

I've got a Mustang GT on hire at Christmas in San Francisco from Hertz. You can get a fairly wide selection of American Muscle cars from the major airports in the US and I think they are doing another Hertz Shelby Mustang. Great to see they are finally opening an adrenaline collection in the UK and hope it becomes more available throughout Europe. Kudos to Hertz (not often I say that....)

[soad]

Benjaminbopper said:

I've just spoken with Hertz, booking and paying with an Am-Ex reduces it to a daily rate of £186.34...there is howevever a £3k excess on the car.

Is there an option lower the excess?! Too high

[XTR2Turbo]

soad said:

Is there an option lower the excess?! Too high

http://www.insurance4carhire.com/?utm_medium=cpc&gclid=CP2yv4T7oaoCFUwc4QodHhFxXQ

[Ian974]

soad said:

Is there an option lower the excess?! Too high

You'd hope so!
'do you want the £10 a day damage excess waiver?' yes, because I am going to cane the life out of this thing!

[nouze]

they are renting out MP4-12C's already? great!!!

[whythem]

Given the amount of interest in hiring an Evora on this thread, I wonder why the supercar hire companies dont offer them for hire. As far as I know you can only rent the Evora from Castle Lotus for silly money, Dreamcar, Prestige etc dont have any.
I'd rather hire an Evora than 997 for something abit different.

[nouze]

MattDell said:

Certainly a better option than the Corvette at Hertz in the US.

yes a v6 is always better than a v8. wrrrroooom brooom broom brooooom brom brrom brom.

[skint_driver]

nouze said:

yes a v6 is always better than a v8. wrrrroooom brooom broom brooooom brom brrom brom.

A 4-pot can be better than a V8 - the Top Gear episode with Exige Vs Mustang was on Dave again recently :P

[DonkeyApple]

loudlashadjuster said:

Hertz are certainly stepping things up a bit. I had a 500 Abarth from them recently and it was quite a hoot and only cost about £80 a day, about the same as a bloody Kia Cee'd. Bit of a no-brainer, if you don't need the space.

Yup. Car manufacturers have finally realised that rental companies are essentially the near perfect show room and test drive facility for potential sales.

[timewatch]

Sniff Sniff!

Smell Lotus desperation!

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