The time is almost here! It is about time to take your much-needed holiday. You have already planned everything out, and the only thing left to do is hire a car. No problem, right? All you should have to do is look online, find the cheapest price, and be done with it. However, there is a little more to hiring a car than that, if you don’t want to get ripped off. Today, we are Read more…

Everyone likes a free lunch. But everyone LOVES a free car! For the past 5 weeks, Carrentals has been running a car hire give away competition, with one lucky winner chosen each week to receive a shiny hire car absolutely free. Gutted you missed out? You don’t need to be! We’re a generous bunch here at Carrentals and there are still another 3 weeks left to get your mitts on one of our rentals.   Read more…

There are several advantages and disadvantages to hiring ‘high end’ cars for business or pleasure. In this blog, we’ll be talking about both. As a consumer there are many things to consider when hiring a ‘high end’ car; first, let’s look at the business end of hiring a car. By being in business, you need to be able to create the right impression with a client, and the car that you are driving will certainly Read more…

It was not easy compiling these lists. In my quest for perfection, many likely candidates have fallen by the wayside. Please comment if you don’t agree. The Best 1. Duel A big, scary, anonymous juggernaut following an average Joe in a horrifically-styled 1970s coupe. Duel is the best car chase ever because it’s not about high-speed, turbocharged automobiles driving around crowded roads. It’s just two cars, going at it in the middle of nowhere. We Read more…

Don’t bite the hand that feeds you Car rental firms are known to have a very high car turnover compared to other fleets like those of governments or big corporations. As such, cars can be bought in one year by the rental firms and by the following year, the car hire firm is looking to sell them on. There are many reasons for this, including probably the main one being the fact that older cars will Read more…

What are the implications and reasons behind such a big player reducing its fleet size, and is it an acknowledgement of a shaky future to come? Assuming that Hertz will not be reducing the size of its fleet due to reduced client numbers, one major implication of such a move would be a lot of disappointed customers. This would be especially so for customers who are always used to getting a vehicle from Hertz every Read more…

Can the old hire car industry survive and adapt to 21st Century car rental demands? Many people are going green these days, with a renewed interest in the environment, and heightened awareness of the state of our natural resources, people all around the world are reacting to this problem. For example, Paris has recently launched an electric car scheme and San Francisco Airport is implementing a new drive to attract green cars to its airport. However, Read more…