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I rent ~30 cars per year for work. I am 6'4", drive a mazda 2, and while I have to rent ICARs for work from enterprise, I rarely get ICARs as I'm on a first name basis with my normal rental location. I've rented 6 cars so far this year. They all kind of blend together. Cars I hate: Nissan Sentra Grand Caravan Mitsubishi Outlander (Think those are all out of the fleet) Toyota Corollas are bad for long trips. The footwell is too small. GM CUVs. Eww. Particularly chevy. Cars I like getting: VW Passat. Seriously. A good road trip vehicle. Not sure I've want to own one as LOL VW, but a solid car for long trips. Comfortable, enough power, 600mi per tank. Ford Fusion. These are actually really decent, particularly in high trim, which Enterprise sometimes has. Both this an the passat have better radar cruise control than others. Chevy Tahoe. Only for long trips in rural areas. gently caress this car in the city. Hyundais and Kias ave gotten really nice. They also seem to be leaving the Enterprise fleet in California. Its mostly Nissan, Ford, VW, and Chevy CUVs I never get fancy cars as this location never has them and the airport locations won't give me them. I guess I've gotten a few infiniti CUVs, meh. I get a pickups sometimes, I'm ford, dodge, then GM. Chevy pickups are pretty grim in rental spec. GM seems to be sucking really bad on everything that isn't a Yukon or a Caddy. Frontier seats don't go far back enough for me, so I dunno. edit: The ford ecosport is perhaps the dumbest vehicle I've driven. Very nice inside compared to many CUVs, expensive, and possibly the slowest car I've ever driven. Terrible to drive generally. nm fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Mar 3, 2020 |
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I'm 6'4", drive a mazda2 and the least comfortable car I've driven is a Chevy uplander. Vehicle size doesn't equate to comfort.
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Mar 9, 2020 20:58
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dissss posted:Fords are particularly weird - to me the Fiesta feels roomier than the Focus which is itself roomier feeling than the Mondeo. The Mazda2 is roomer than the Fiesta. Center console design is more compact and the seat might go back a touch more.
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Mar 10, 2020 05:44
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grillster posted:These Nissan reviews are some of the funniest in this thread and I see why. I will note that the one time I had to go over the mountains I got an AWD Rogue. It sucked, was slow, and had a heated steering wheel. That heated steering wheel made up for a lot when I work up in the morning. This didn't have many miles. It was just slow AF. That's not that rare a feature these days, but it sure is on rental cars. Only 300Cs, which are becoming thin on the ground, regularly have them. Shout to the 300C of having cooled seats in all the rental spec cars, but LOL to the 300C for hiding that behind some menus rather than making it a button. They all (well enterprise rental spec) seem to have it, but you have to go looking.
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Mar 19, 2020 07:43
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everdave posted:If I can be allowed to rant here... What company?
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Mar 23, 2020 19:46
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Midjack posted:Some defensive driving schools advise you to inflate the tires to their sidewall max. Jesus.
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Aug 18, 2020 07:07
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So I got a Mazda 3 sedan with 12,000mi. I've since put 1000mi on the thing, been pulled over once (warning). Done some twisty roads and some interstate cruising. Honestly, one issue aside, I am flabbergasted why anyone buys anything but the 3 in this class and price range. It is so.goddamn.good. The handling is really good for a car shod with stock AS rubber (which was useful as I've hit some cold areas). It as decent power for the class and the engine seems very happy to rev. I guess I wish it had flappy paddles (or the manual), but it will hold gears until ever. The tech is good, easy to use, and everything feels well designed and fairly premium for the price tag. The literal only issue I have is ingress and egress. I am 6'4" and holy gently caress is it hard to get in and out of this car without banging your head. I have mostly perfected the motion, but drat. Mazda really seems to ignore tall people on the 3. I drive a goddamn mazda 2, which fits me fine which I bought over a 3 because I was more comfortable in it. Now the 3 is quite comfortable once I am there, but goddamn, I could use some more room. Sitting in the car, my head is well over the top of the door as the roof curves a few inches down before the door starts. This sucks. That said, if you are 6'2" or less, if you're buying a jetta, corolla, civic, or whatever the gently caress hyundai has, you're loving insane. I've rented basically every ICAR and this is by far the best. If you're tall, the Jetta fits tall people. Oh and the fuel economy. I just drove (in a spirited manner) Boise to Missoula, which had at least 3 mountain passes on 1 tank. Like 11 gallons for 400mi. If I'd drive more sedately, I'm pretty sure I'd have done way better.
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I have no sunroof. Do note that I am a freak with an extremely long torso. Seriously, I'm 6'4" and buy 30 or 32in inseam pants. Buying shirts is weird for me. I gpt stuck in a porsche Cayman once on a race track because I forgot I had to remove my helmet to get out. (Or in. This was a porsche demo day and they didn't want us to get into the cars without helmets and it took a demo to show i couldn't get into any of their cars with a helmet on. Eventually they let me put it on in the car). Do note it is a sedan and I note in many cars the longroof has more headroom than the sedan (I cannot fit in a bl/bp legacy sedan with a sunroof, can fit in both the sedan without and wagon with, but can only fit with a helmet in my sunroof free wagon. Also, gently caress sunroofs, either buy a vert or stop cutting holes in the roof. nm fucked around with this message at 07:16 on Oct 12, 2020 |
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Oct 12, 2020 07:10
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FBS posted:I really liked the driving position, there was a ton of fore/aft room and adjustability and I could stretch out more than in most cars. Yet, once again, my hair brushed the headliner in this full-size car. I can't understand why headroom is at a premium in the full-size class. If it had a sunroof I would probably have had genuine headroom issues. My favorite part about the car was there was soft leather (or faux leather, whatever) on all the resting contact points - both elbows and both knees. I was very comfortable for relaxed cruising. It didn't feel especially wide but did feel quite long. Good visibility, and I liked the blind spot monitoring lights being mounted inside on the door post instead of built into the mirror face like most BSM lights. It was pretty quiet inside and the ride was reasonable (helped by the small wheels and fat sidewalls, I think). Infotainment was fine and easy to figure out. I liked the map display more than the one in my Mazda. Overall the interior and technology was respectable but never impressive, and didn't quite live up to what I think a $35k car should feel like inside. I think car manufacturers are mounting seats higher so they appeal to the "sit up higher" CUV crowd. Yes, seats are adjustable, but a huge number of cars I've driven lately have a good 4-5 inches between the bottom of the seat a the floor. It used to be closed to 2-3. (All assuming seat lowered as much as possible). This was an issue I noticed particular on the mazda3 above and likely made egress much harder.
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Oct 20, 2020 07:53
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sharkytm posted:Nope. And it's likely (IME pre-COVID) they'll completely ignore your preference. Oh, you ordered a compact car? We're out of those, your choice is this gas guzzling three row SUV that won't fit in the parking garage at your hotel, this midsize sedan with zero visibility and a huge trunk you don't need or want, or a barbones pickup. Have fun! Pre-covid I rented from the same shop several times a month for work. This almost always worked out in my favor. Though this is work and they paid for the gas so I didn't care if I got a Tahoe (great highway cruiser) as long as I didn't need to go to an urban area. It will almost always be a hyundai/kia, domestic, or Nissan though. Occasional mazdas, vws, and toyotas.
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Feb 22, 2021 05:58
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BuckyDoneGun posted:Not just Ford Au, aren’t the Focus and Fiesta literally the only non-SUV’s left in the entire global portfolio? Mustang?
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A bit sketchy at 200kph, but I didn't think it would do it either, so. Surprisingly decent manual. Also, usb-c only for android auto and I didn't have a usb-c to usb-c cable (only c to a). Built in navigation system was ok, but some of the listings of speed limits where a bit off. I was supposed to have a golf and would have preferred it.
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RIP Paul Walker posted:I usually rent a compact with enterprise and swap my way up to a Tahoe or something else nice, but it’s hard to pull off if you’re not the right combination of friendly and easygoing with the undertone of someone who isn’t always. This used to be the way. My work requires that I rent an ICAR. Pre-covid, I was renting well over 25 cars a year for several years and could count the number of ICARs I drove on one hand. They were all upgrades. The upgrades were better at my "home" location where I was on a first name basis with almost everyone, but airports tended to get me an FCAR at minimum. Generally no luxury cars, but everything else. I never got a lower class car, though a new employee once almost did, but I called it and she changed it. During covid, it was super hit and miss between getting ICARs or some insane upgrade. "After" covid, its almost entirely ICARs. Even at my local location where I'm on a first name basis with at least some people. My theory is that enterprise was able to buy a lot more of that class during the last few years than upgrades, as honestly, most locations almost never had an ICAR on the lot previously. I've only had a few upgrades. My local gave me an RT charger a while back because the only other cars they had were a minivan and something that had been smoked in. And then last week in palm springs, they were clearly slammed and almost out of cars. They gave me a rogue as an "upgrade" but an initial inspection found a completely bald tire. They gave me a Q3 as compensation, which was pretty nice. One thing I will note that if you're renting for personal use, the price difference between a CCAR and an FCAR are a few cents with enterprise. My impression is the FCAR makes you more likely to get a decent rental because there is less options if they're out of what you rented. If they don't have your car and try to downgrade you, be polite but firm unless it is truly obvious that there's no upgrades on the lot -- at this point most enterprise people at least recognize that a minivan is not an upgrade -- and in that case, they should make you pay far less than the cost for whatever car you're actually driving is.
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RIP Paul Walker posted:I agree 100% except for minivans not being an upgrade. Gimme a Pacifica or Sienna over a Maxima any day of the week. Also, its never a Sienna. It almost always a rental special grand caravan with 30k mi.
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