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Exotic Car Rental Directory

The Rent Exotic Cars Network (www.RentExoticCars.net) has added a new directory devoted to exotic and luxury car clubs. Exotic Car Clubs (www.ExoticCarClubs.com) includes both exotic car share clubs and fractional ownership exotic car clubs. “This type of directory website doesn’t exist anywhere else,” says Cheryl Lyman, webmaster and president of CS Publications (www.cspublications.com). “Once we launched www.RentExoticCars.net, many exotic car clubs asked to be listed,” says Lym...

Car Rentals-Car Seat Conundrum

As reported on washinton post dated February 18, 2007, Sheri Annis of Chevy Chase arrived at the Hertz counter in the Los Angeles airport with luggage and a tired toddler, expecting that, as in the past, a Hertz employee would help her install the child safety seat she'd reserved along with a car. But the policy has changed, she was told, and assistance is neither available nor allowed. She was handed the seat "A kind employee said he would try to help me," Annis says. "When another employe...

Avis Europe patners with SkyEurope

Avis Europe has announced an exclusive three-year partnership with SkyEurope, one of the fastest growing European low cost passenger airlines, covering destinations throughout Central and Western Europe, and the UK. From 1st February 2007, SkyEurope customers booking through the airline’s website, skyeurope.com, can reserve a rental car with Avis. With rental locations at every SkyEurope destination, including Bratislava, Warsaw, Prague, Vienna, Rome, Barcelona, London and Manchester, Avis ...

Best Car Rental Company in Europe

Sixt AG, Germany's largest car rental company and one of the leading vendor-neutral and non-bank full-service leasing providers, has won the renowned "Business Traveller Award 2006" in the category of "Best Car Rental Company in Europe". According to this ranking, Sixt clearly surpassed the competition in fulfilling the central quality and performance criteria for car rental in Europe, among them a top price/performance ratio, an easy and straight-forward rental process, high vehicle quality a...

Car Rental companies talk merger

Four of the major U.S. rental car brands are discussing a merger of their two parent companies, according to a published report. The New York Times said the talks involve Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group (Charts), which operates under those two names, and privately held Vanguard Car Rental, which operates the Alamo and National rent-a-car brands. The deal might be worth $3 billion, according to the report. The paper said the combined operation would move into No. 3 in terms in the sector in t...

Avis Introduces Automatic e-Receipts

Did you ever wish that you didn't have to keep track of all your receipts when traveling for business? Have you ever lost a receipt or wished there was a quick and convenient way to get a copy? Avis Rent A Car System, LLC today announced that customers can now obtain "e-Receipts," a paperless alternative to rental receipts. Customers who have provided an email address in their rental profile and have used their Avis Wizard number at the time of rental will now have a record of their transaction ...

Car Rental Comparision

CarRentals.co.uk claims to be the first impartial comparison site as it does not charge companies to be included in its search, unlike other comparison websites. The website features car hire deals from 40 different rental websites for 4,000 destinations across the world, including companies such as Holiday Autos, E-Bookers, Opodo, Alamo, Thrifty and EasyCar. "We have developed what we believe is the first genuine car hire comparator with extensive reach. It uses the latest technology to...