And a in 1:1 private to rental car sale, the rental would be cheaper almost always.
>A former rental may cost less money up front, but it will also return less money down the road. Getting maximum resale value for a used rental car is difficult, because many shoppers are wary of buying former rental vehicles, so much so that some states have passed laws allowing car dealerships to call rental cars "program cars" in hopes of avoiding the stigma. https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/articles/the_pros_and_cons_of_...
First, almost all renters avoid abusing a rental car because they don't want to get charged for any damage. (Maybe the exception would be a sports car.)
Second, I mean, unless they took it out to the track and spent a day going laps with it, cars these days are basically built to easily handle any kind of driving behavior you can get away with on public roads.
What really kills cars are accidents and lack of maintenance. Neither are hard for a trained mechanic to detect.
What about constantly redlining the engine? That will put a disproportionate amount of wear on the engine for the miles driven, but won't cause any immediately-visible damage.
I personally do drive rentals to the max safe performance they will give me, which is more like what the description was about, in any case.
Revving in neutral is not particularly horrible for a car. Perhaps worse if done cold. The no load situation makes timing on the car easier.
Likely one tank of regular gasoline in a performance engine, and a stop and go to the neighborhood grocery will do more damage.
Redlining while parked or neutral is absurd. Who will rent car just to rev it up. & For how much time? Few minutes? Hours? People will be looking at this person who is redlining a car since last few hours.
Not even close to a consideration as long as the engine is getting scheduled fluid changes.
Source: used to be privy to some OEM testing info.
Also, a Dodge Neon can go 50 in 1st gear, or maybe it was 2nd, I forget.
See the cars at enterprisecarsales.com , where most of the cars are Enterprise Rentals.
Still better than the proverbial $500 Civic with 250,000 miles, 7 owners, and 3 accidents, but not great vehicles to own by any stretch of the imagination.
How many times one rents a car for personal use v/s on official use or business use? Business use is way higher than personal use. Most of the people who rent it for business use, are reporting to their boss or some kind of supervisor; & if they thrash car, car company reports/charges damages, it will come back to the person who drove it. So, no, a majority of renters don't beat cars because they still will be on hook for damages.
How many regular rentals need premium? None. Only exotic rentals might. Most of the rentals are run of the mill Toyota,Hyundai, Mitsubishi, mid size or mid range; the cars which are most of the time good for everyone. None of them needs premium. Although, this fuel thing exists. When I used to rent, I used to buy the cheapest fuel at any cheapest station. Now in own car,I go by only Shell Regular.
Rental are new, & new cars are covered bumper to bumper for about 36000, transmission till 60,000.
Yes, rental gets different drivers, but so do to some degree of non rental (family, friends, not common but still not zero).
So, as stated above,a 36,000 miles in a rental is not much different than same in a non rental.
In my opinion; there is a similar set of drivers who dont care for their own car, & almost most of them will not care for rental or friendly loaned too. People race their own cars, people floor their own cars.
My personal experience; my used car came with all shop visit records; verifiable, from Ford's system. Yes, it had about 4000 miles more than projected 7 years 150,000 miles on projected line, but that gap is getting less everyday with my moderate use (1000miles a month).
Rentals are beaten is a personal opinion. Any car can come out beaten. People who beat cars don't care if they rent it or own it. But beating a rental car might bite back quickly instead of beating one's own car.
> renters beat them up because they don't care
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> beaters and sent those to the junk yard.
Still, all of the above also gets applied to owned cars too. People use cars for multiple people; people slam doors, majority of personal cars have no garage, small issues and negligence.
Newer cars (rentals or not) have factory warranty, where service center takes care of minor issues without even asking.
I respect your opinion that rentals are bad than owned cars, other things like mileage same; but my opinion & experience is, people will be bad drivers, be it their own car or rental; & even bad drivers will be a bit more careful with a rental because chances of them paying for it immediately financially is more than paying for damages to their own car.
I was an Enterprise rental customer for about 7 years before that, renting a car about 2-3 times, not preplanned; & decision based on rental cost & availability, flexible dates.
Other trims were also available.
My car is Ford EcoSport, Titanium 4WD. Highest. The 2nd trim was Titanium FWD. Then SE. Then the lowest basic trim, S.
All trim options were available, obviously as used cars with all having different color, prices.
This is the conventional wisdom, but is it actually true? Anytime I've rented a car, I've handled it like a virgin princess because I know any scuff is coming out of my hide. My own car, hell, rub it up against the concrete barrier for all I care. That is a vehicle I would not want to buy on the used market.
The cars with extensive damage or accidents, any bad mark on carfax goes to wholesale auctions. These are just the ones near end of mileage or age warranty.
The news, the hype, & the reality too contributed to the car sales. I am not in market, but still I see now the 2/3 year used car prices almost very near to their new counterpart, even on enterprise, compared to dealer websites for new cars.