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Old 08-04-2011, 11:02 AM   #4 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Originally Posted by War_Wagon View Post
I finally decided to roll the dice and buy a 5 speed manual car for our rental fleet. People call asking for something "good on gas", so I figured this would be something that fits the bill that no one else offers around here. I am hoping we will be able to weed out the people that want to burn out someone else's clutch to learn how to drive standard. A lot of european tourists ask if we have a manual transmission vehicle available, so I figure if we only rent it to people with cool accents we should be ok! Either it will be the best or worst idea I have ever had. I bought a cheapo car just in case it is the latter. Feel free to tell me it was the best idea, I am already having second thoughts!
Why not go online and see if you can find precautionary standards used by Europeans? Maybe they have professional online forums you could ask? It seems that in the lands of autobahns, racing green, and formula 1 they must have yahoos too. How do they screen? What secruity do they get? Is the law different or do they just have different contract and pre- and post-rental practices?

I think it is a great idea. I would rent one for certain, if only your business was somewhere I need to go. =)
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.



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