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From: leland@joevax.UUCP (Lee Woodbury)
Newsgroups: net.travel
Subject: Car Rental Companies: Are There Any SPECIAL Ones?
Message-ID: <50@joevax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 10:37:57 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 12 10:37:57 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Sep-85 04:38:51 EDT
Organization: Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), Morristown, NJ
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Friends and fellow travellers,

This is a topic which has probably been batted around in
net.travel before, but do net people have some information about
good -- dare I say, even *special* -- car rental companies? 
I don't think I'm talking about #1, #2, or even #3.
A national (note I said "national" not "National")
car rental company would be nice, although since I'm basically a
selfish person, I'd settle for information about companies in the
New York metropolitan area.

Aside from the obvious desirables (like reasonable prices, convenience,
availability, etc.), I'm looking for a few special features that I
haven't yet found anywhere.  Specifically:

 - Availability of cars with manual transmission.  I assume the
   reason that this is rare (if not non-existent) is that a significant
   part of the population doesn't know how to drive a stick, but
   there must be somebody who has 'em.
 - Some control over getting particular models.  For instance,
   I drive a Toyota Corolla at home, and I like it a lot and I like
   it a *lot* better than any of the crap that Avis et.al. dish out.
   Now I know that Avis, for instance, will take *requests* for
   a particular model (and the Corolla is among their available
   cars), but under no obligation to honor those requests; I haven't
   hit yet.
 - Cars in good repair!  I'm so sick of getting dogs.
 - Anything else?

Well, what about it, folks?  Any recommendations?  Thanks in advance
for any information you can offer.  Feel free to mail to me,
but please post your response if you think it's of general interest.
-- 
Lee Woodbury
Bell Communications Research (Bellcore)
435 South Street, MRE 2D-290
Morristown, NJ  07960
201-829-4535
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