Yeah, one of the requirements for the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle has been giving letter carriers something approaching the safety features that a consumer would expect from a light truck today (the technical basis for the LLV is a 1980s S-10).

you can’t add the two speeds to get to the equivalent head on:

So it is the “car” as in the frame and VIN match with the vehicle involved in the shooting. But they replaced everything that was damaged inside and out with new pieces so it is just a 7 Series with an infamous VIN number. I dont see how that is worth 1.75 million dollars.

Full size spares on trucks are normal tires with normal speed ratings, not space savers with low limits.

Oh that would not go over well at my house.  My wife would nut-up and quickly become some foreclosure person’s worst nightmare.

What about the people who were arrested AFTER they returned the bloody car? Or the rental cars that were ‘STOLEN’ and then TOWED during an active rental leaving the person who rented the car without a ride only for them to get arrested later?

Sadly, Avis has some similar issues.

“President’s Circle” status can also come from having “Platinum” status on United. I have it despite only renting form Hertz twice in the last two years (I usually fly international for business and don’t rent cars abroad).

Same. If Hertz is the only choice, I’m going carless. This has happened often enough that it seems an unacceptable risk to rent from them. For that matter, I’m really interested to see, once people run the numbers on that data that Hertz didn’t want to release, whether you’re more likely to be seriously injured in a…

I’m shocked that after reading these stories that you would even have them at the bottom and not right off.  I will never, ever, use Hertz again.

I can sense a new Ad campaign:

The bottom? If there’s no other choice, I’m walking.

The more I read about these stories, the more I wish Hertz didn’t survive bankruptcy.

Well I don’t rent cars very often, but this, right here, will push them down to the bottom of my list the next time I do. 

That’s hard to say because a 4WD van was pretty much never offered. The new stuff (Sprinter and Transit) pretty much have to be ordered, dealers do not stock them. I ordered my AWD Transit Feb 6th 2021 (just before the chip shortage became public knowledge). It finally came in Oct 6th, a full 8 months to the day after…

Also the breakover angle and departure angle sucks. Most folks could just do their overlanding with 2WD. 4x4 will just get you stuck.

Maybe if Nissan had just sold these in 4x4 right from the factory they would have sold a lot more. If factory 4x4 parts just bolt right on they should have. Not all of them but like the difference between a 2wd and 4wd Titans.

If you’ve got 700 grand to refurbish, how hard could it possibly be to swap out the airline toilets for some RV/Marine flush units?

That would be so goddamn distracting for me 

Likely 6 mpg trying to push that brick to 70 mph, but if driving it at 55-60, as high as 8. Rebuild interval depends on maintenance and how hard it’s pushed. Some will go beyond 500k, some might be more like 200k.