The company has already sold 44,260 VF8s this year

I’ve sat in and closely examined a VF8. While it looks well screwed together and feels reasonably comfy, there are quite a few issues around material quality and design choices. Saw a VF9 in the back lot of the showroom and got the same impression. It’s just meh!

The advantage Hyundai had over VinFast is that Hyundai had actually built vehicles before. All of VinFast’s vehicles are either re-bodied BMWs or brand new platforms, so they don’t have the deep understanding of the car manufacturing world.

If only Fisker was able to hold on as well as VinFast has...

In all fairness, When Hyundai came to America with its Excel sedan, not only was the car trash but Hyundai “It rhymes with Sunday” and its buyers’ misfortunes became a running joke.

Same here with Avis.  There was, however, once a 20+ person, hour+ wait at DFW in September 

“the employees on duty were immediately terminated and we resumed normal operations the next day.”

Most New York thing I’ve read in a while.

Yes, yes he did. He keeps swearing to never do another story on Hertz that is a repeat, but Hertz keeps coming up with entirely new twists. 

Unfair. AFAIK Spirit Airlines hasn’t held passengers at gun point face down on the airport apron in the roasting sunshine. 

HERTZ.  The Spirit Airlines of rental cars.  

After far to many experiences with Avis and Budget, this sounds like it would be the best rental car experience I could ever imagine having.

I would love to know the backstory. This sounds like some kind of collective employment suicide pact. How horrible must it have been to work there?

Brave souls taking keys and leaving. I wouldn’t be shocked it Hertz pressed charges against all of them for theft, including the Denver mayor. Sure it would be publicity suicide, but when has that ever stopped a rental car company from trying to horse whip a customer!

National has cars waiting with keys in and you’re assigned a row to go and take a car from or a car specifically depending on the location. I want to say some Hertz locations do too, but it’s been a while since I rented from Hertz as my company has a sweetheart with Enterprise and National.

“So Johnston and many other Hertz customers who had reservations just found Hertz cars with keys in them and drove away.”

I have used them in the US, Central America, and Europe and they never disappoint.  They are owned by BMW so you usually get a nice Bimmer.  I can usually rent a 3-series or x3/4 with Sixt for about the same cost as a midsize sedan from Avis.

Has Steve Leto made a video about this? Over under by the end of the day.

Sixt has been amazingly good every time I’ve used them, and they have cooler cars.

As a regular Avis customer (20+ rentals per year for work trips) and top tier member of their rewards program, I wouldn’t be surprised if I read a similar article about one of the locations I use on a regular basis. The way it is supposed to work is I check the app when I land and they provide me with a car and…