Damn you!

What if it isn't the rental company? What if Nissan just figured out how to sell 3,500 Altimas?

That aftermath was savage, you should see it!

What a damned tease.

Agreed. Hot exhaust + dry grass, classic combo for Disco Inferno

Not to mention they’d have to clean all the cars before renting them (or say they did), because someone might have sneezed on the steering wheel.

Presumably the nice cars aren’t in an unsecured, open field, either.

My 125 lb dog drives and I take the back seat. Safer that way.

I conveniently timed “accident”...

I have a sneaking suspicion that they upped the level of their arson insurance only a few days ago. I could just be being cynical though.

I can’t believe he put all those concrete blocks in his van. What a dummy! 

What, 3500 cars in one shot isn't big enough for you?

Always secure your load, especially if you are playing around in the back of a van.

Hilarity ensues.

If your business is failing, arson may be an option.

Go big or go home, right?

It’s been really dry in Florida the past few months.  If they’re parking cars in a grass field, it wouldn’t take much for a brush fire to crop up...and, with all those cars sitting with at least 1/4 of a tank of fuel...kaboom. 

Honestly, I would bet on garden-variety negligence, something like hot exhaust on dry grass (since that field isn't normally used for parking) or a driver decided to take a smoke break in the back 40. As you mentioned, several of them are self-insured (certainly, the one I work for).

100%! I imagine they’ll discover that by some strange stroke of luck only the lot with sedans in it was lost, and the lot with crossovers, SUVs, trucks, convertibles and luxury cars was saved.

I’m betting on some sort of insurance fraud. Car rentals have tanked with the virus and these companies aren’t getting any kind of bailout. I know some car companies are self-insured, so I’m curious if the ones lost in the blaze fall under that umbrella or not.