This is not your buddies K5 rusty Blazer anymore.
Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport Enterprise.
2023 Chevrolet Blazer AWD, 24,000 miles, driven hard, base 2 liter turbo engine.
Feels cheap, these are priced in the upper $30's to upper 40's? Doors feel tinny - lots of plastic. I can state I hate 2.0 liter turbo engines with 8/9 speed transmissions! Also it feels like the same Equinox, Murano, CRV......they all seem identical.
Not really blown away. No purchase from the big guy.
Wait, blazer not the trailblazer?
In reply to EricM :
Yes, Blazer.
Ah, the bride and I are thinking of getting a trailblazer as they are flat towable. (We got a motorhome)
Cheers
Also this car is rough - there's a cigarette burn about 3/8" deep into the seat. This isn't an ash or small ember. These are odd scratches on the windshield too.
99% of rental cars are beaters these days.
THis year so far I have gotten
Oddly enough the nicest ones have been in Mexico. At least they are clean
Datsun310Guy said:I can state I hate 2.0 liter turbo engines with 8/9 speed transmissions! Also it feels like the same Equinox, Murano, CRV......they all seem identical.
Not really blown away. No purchase from the big guy.
As a staunch manuals-only guy, I will still say this in slight defense of rental automatics - most (all?) modern automatics use learning algorithms that try to adapt to the driver. This is very bad for rental fleets because who knows what kind of no-mans-land it has adapted to. I have no idea how long you'd have to drive a rental for it to adapt to you though, so if it still sucked at the end of a week of driving, that's probably not the adaptations' fault. But still, it could be because that's a small percentage of total miles driven. No idea...
Enterprise gives you a large Clorox wipe for extra protection after their "extensive" cleaning.
By the dried booger or spit (not sure) on the steering wheel center I kinda feel they do minimum cleaning allowing you to do it.
I had a 2wd frontier recently. The refreshed one. Yes it was old and trucky, but I liked it a lot. Would buy.
beyond that my experience is similar to you. Busted old cars.
cyow5 said:Datsun310Guy said:I can state I hate 2.0 liter turbo engines with 8/9 speed transmissions! Also it feels like the same Equinox, Murano, CRV......they all seem identical.
Not really blown away. No purchase from the big guy.
As a staunch manuals-only guy, I will still say this in slight defense of rental automatics - most (all?) modern automatics use learning algorithms that try to adapt to the driver. This is very bad for rental fleets because who knows what kind of no-mans-land it has adapted to. I have no idea how long you'd have to drive a rental for it to adapt to you though, so if it still sucked at the end of a week of driving, that's probably not the adaptations' fault. But still, it could be because that's a small percentage of total miles driven. No idea...
Putting most rental cars in sport mode or turning off traction control helps a lot.
In reply to 93gsxturbo :
A Polestar 1? Yeah that's totally rad.
I figured the only way anyone would get a chance to drive something like that would be to use Turo.
I think it's folly judging a vehicle's worth by a rentals behaviour. Some of the worst cars I've ever driven have been rental versions of otherwise pretty decent cars.
In reply to Peabody :
This.
An abused car ended up being a peice of crap. Who knew?
Colin Wood said:In reply to 93gsxturbo :
A Polestar 1? Yeah that's totally rad.
I figured the only way anyone would get a chance to drive something like that would be to use Turo.
Hertz rents them in Cali. I think they have two in their fleet, I picked up in San Diego.
Was walking out and looked at a row of Mustangs including the GT500H or whatever they call it, a few Mercedes, and a Polestar 1. I mean - come on - when are you gonna get to drive a Polestar 1 for a week around San Diego.
I think about that car almost daily. It was very very special. Interesting mix of looking like nothing else and everything else at the same time.
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