Wish I could star this more. When I was 20 something, a rental was an excuse to play. But I didn’t get many business trips because I was a junior dude. I travel more now now that I am a more senior guy. I drive a rental like I do my private car. Maybe a bit slower since I am unfamiliar with the car and where I am…

I too rent that often and then some. I don’t see it. At worst, I would call the condition of even the worst 30K mile rental cars “average” at Hertz. As in, no worse than the cars of my non-car guy friends and family with similar mileage. The average person doesn’t give two shits about their car, and treat them like a…

They’re often dealer-maintained. I’ve known a few people who bought ex-rental cars and no one had any nasty surprises.

i used to think NO WAY WOULD I BUY A RENTAL THEY GET TREATED LIKE SHIT. but i thought that when i was an asshole in my 20's that would have treated a rental like shit. it’s one of the reasons you can’t rent a car until you’re 25. i’ve been renting cars for work once every week or two for 15 years now and i can say…

While a first reaction to buying a rental car is no, there is some semblance of maintenance on them, as others have said, but that used-personal car, may have not had any maintenance whatsoever. Lesser of two evils?

I think your theory about most people not doing neutral drops and smoky burnouts in their rental Equinox is generally sound. That said, I’ll never understand why some folks insist on smoking in rentals, despite the warnings about “cleaning fees” and stickers on nearly every surface with “NO SMOKING” and crossed-out…

Oh theres definitely something wrong with our society because we dont have universal health care, but theres also something wrong forcing your customers to pay more to subsidize the health care for their employees when they already subsidize their salary with their tips

There are no factory incentives or anything on these cars anymore. That is usually the bulk of most published discounts. 

Menu prices aren’t itemized to show the cost of each individual ingredient and things like property rent, utilities, equipment, supplies, or anything else the restaurant has to pay for - so this practice is clearly meant to hide the fee from the customer because restaurant owners know that customers generally do not…

I agree. I don’t want to see restaurant expenses added to the menu price on my bill and not find out the final price until the bill shows up. The menu price should be the final price excluding taxes and tip. Otherwise it is just false advertising in my opinion.

if you can’t be profitable enough to pay your employees: raise your prices or go out of business. don’t hide behind a fake tax buried in the fine print.

Just roll it into the price. Why does it have to be a surprise fee?

I wouldn’t really fault Ferrari for waiting on full EV.  They aren’t really the company that has to do things “first” to matter.  They are more about style and doing things “the best” in their eyes, so coming out with an EV after the technology has matured makes some good sense.  It’s not like they have to change…

I don’t travel that much but I constantly get the “we tossed your bag” cards in my luggage. I have a stack of them to show how random they must be.

There is being generous, and then there is just being plain stupid and being taken advantage of because some people tricked you into thinking that tipping $50 because someone poured you a glass is a thing you should do. Tipping the server $5 bucks instead is perfectly reasonable.

Since the whole point of spending $250 on a shot of scotch is telling people that you spent $250 on a shot of scotch, go ahead and treat yourself and truthfully tell people that you spent $300 on a shot of scotch.

I’ll add some comments from a co-worker of mine who owned one up until recently. “You get a mostly reliable yet thirsty and under-powered V8.”

Apparent heterosexual man prefers to speak to attractive woman as opposed to other man alone in bar. Film at 11. 

Yup, it’s pretty awful.