California driving
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mondayo

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1,833 posts

280 months

Thursday 1st July 2010
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Anyone who's off to California anytime soon(ish) Hertz are doing some decent deals on their rentals....
http://www.hertzoffers.com/splash/splash.aspx?Offe...

The_Doc

5,618 posts

237 months

Thursday 1st July 2010
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Cheers for the heads up. I'm doing a fly-drive in California 10th July to 26th....

Hertz said:
Whatever your choice, choose to book between 15th June and 15th of July for your discount on rentals between 1st September and 31st October 2010.
it's a promotion now, for late season bookings..

I've booked an intermediate convertible from ALAMO, whatever that is smile

Hub

6,792 posts

215 months

Thursday 1st July 2010
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The_Doc said:
I've booked an intermediate convertible from ALAMO, whatever that is smile
Almost certainly a god-awful Chrysler Sebring...

bigandclever

14,077 posts

255 months

Thursday 1st July 2010
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Hub said:
The_Doc said:
I've booked an intermediate convertible from ALAMO, whatever that is smile
Almost certainly a god-awful Chrysler Sebring...
We ordered a Sebring and were pleased to be given a Mustang (albeit a V6 one). The second time we tried it we got given a Kia Spastic, or some other hateful pile of arse.

Matt Harper

6,850 posts

218 months

Thursday 1st July 2010
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"Perhaps you would prefer the indulgance of a Chevy Impala"



Mmmmmmmm, how decadent.

Arese

21,111 posts

204 months

Friday 2nd July 2010
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mondayo said:
Anyone who's off to California anytime soon(ish) Hertz are doing some decent deals on their rentals....
http://www.hertzoffers.com/splash/splash.aspx?Offe...
Thanks. We're off to California in September. You've just saved us about £30 on the car hire. beer

DavidHM

3,940 posts

217 months

Friday 2nd July 2010
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Matt Harper said:
"Perhaps you would prefer the indulgance of a Chevy Impala"



Mmmmmmmm, how decadent.
I actually laughed out loud at that.

I have a lot of respect for the Impala - it's an amazing mile muncher, utterly detached from the road, but it's big, quiet, makes a nice noise under acceleration, completely relaxing and gave me 32 mpg (UK). However it's about as decadent as grey flannel trousers from M&S.

As for the Sebring - I've not driven one, and I intend to leave it that way. When I was at SFO lasst year the only convertibles they had were Volvo C70s with the T5 engine, which I think was an immensely lucky escape. YMMV.

5potTurbo

13,387 posts

185 months

Sunday 4th July 2010
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My 16 y.o nephew (lives in Illinois) has a 6 year old Sebring convertible for his 1st car - in those circumstances, I wouldn't have said no. I drove it 5 years ago - wallowy, slow, heavy, scuttle shake - tick all of those.

For driving in California, unless you're planning on doing lots of driving, it's not worth going mad. When my eldest brother lived in SoCal I used to spend about 6 weeks/year there=. If I wasn't planning long drives, I used the local 'Rent a Wreck' place for $10/day, incl. Insurance! laugh