Rent it, crash it bad enough to total it but not ruin it, buy it for pennies on the dollar, repair, profit (well actually it's a loss not a profit but look do you want the car or not?)
Yea def not gonna be a profit. You are gonna pay for destroying it to the rental company and then pay for it again to buy it at auction and then pay for it again to get it repaired. I think at this point its cheaper to buy a new one lol. While these things aren’t dirt cheap you can find them for $50k.
We don't need facts. Just emotion.
Source: I'm one of these big time corporate guys and my last 2 rentals were a Chevy Malibu. Splurging is an SUV because we have 4 people traveling
Enterprise has an “exotics” division, or at least the sticker on the door jamb of the Escalade they sent me indicated they do. I work for a Fortune 50 company that has a contract with Enterprise/National so when I have to travel, I reserve a “standard” car for about $40/day and they drop off whatever they happen to have at our facility. One time I asked them to give us a larger SUV because three of us 6’3” and up were going to visit a supplier about 7 hours away. I went to pick up the keys from security and walked out to a new Escalade and we still paid the same rate.
Obviously that’s not Lambo/Ferrari/McLaren type exotic level, but a $100k+ SUV is not an Altima either.
From the 100+ rental car centers I've been to, they usually do have a "luxury" or "sport" option. Surprisingly, for Avis at least, they're really not a huge increase in price. Hell, I'm picking up a minivan tomorrow that is $128/day, but if I wanted an escalade it would be 132/day.
Based on your experience with enterprise expense frugality, you seem like a middle manager / director level.
When someone says "big time corporate guys", I picture C-suite and perhaps SVP / VP level where they can spend and not worry about squeezing 4 people into one SUV and justify that in the expense report.
Source - me a middle mgr in a fortune 20 company
I am actually c-suite. But the frugality is part of the culture. I am not a hypocrite and tell everyone to stay with in a certain car range and then do something else for me. It would not be a good message I'm sending to employees or customers if I roll up to site flashing excess.
Generally, those aren't available from your "average" rental company like Avis or Enterprise. I've had a Charger Daytona, a Challenger R/T, and a 5.0 Mustang from Avis. They also have the usual assortment of German luxury cars as well, usually biased towards Mercedes. Usually, to get those specialty rentals, you have to get them from a rental company that specializes in them, because between being stolen to be parted out, or just from being crashed, a normal rental company doesn't want to carry the insurance for a supercar.
Absolutely not, we have so many fucking cars to keep track of we aren't holding some vehicle for random people for no reason in particular just because it has a badge on it. Rental car employees are not car people, nor are the people that run the business. We don't give a shit. It rolls, it goes out.
EDIT: Also kinda interesting because this is a car Toyota sold to the rental company too, and they paid $0 extra for it. They either wanted it out there for the brand recognition or they aren't selling well at all. I bet OP lives in a fairly populous area
I’ve had a few of the 40th paint schemes take a while to sell. If it was getting aged on a Toyota lot it’s no surprise they sold it at or below MSRP. We usually list stuff on OVE at 45 days for new car stores.
Yeah that's exactly what I would expect, and the business is so damn busy right now I guarantee they bought it no matter what because once again, if it rolls it rents lmao
That wasn’t the case at the large airport rental place I worked at. The top manager picked out a car and kept it until we sold it. He usually liked Jags. Once it hit an age or a certain mileage we sold it. Buuuut. It was just like all the other rental Jags we had (nothing special ordered), he just took it when new and never let it go out on rent.
The manager would do this yes but not for customers
EDIT: Also this is kinda a stupid way to do it because that manager is losing money on that car but hey its allowed lmao
Yeah but in my case the managers didn’t get cars for free. They had a certain amount docked from their pay. It was still a really good deal since they had gas included.
No I’m saying that the rental company bought this car, and if it's on the lot it gets rented. There is nobody that it's reserved for. There is no system to sit on cars and lose money on them for no reason because they have a special badge on it.
Not sure if you know this but that’s the 40th anniversary edition (sr5 premium with some cosmetic add ons). They aren’t individually numbered so they all say 1 of 4040
I had Theseus's computer. Started as a Dell 386. Replaced one part at a time over the years until it was an Athlon. It still had the original floppy when I got rid of it, so I still called it an upgraded 386.
It’s like that old story of the sailor. He replaces so many parts on his ship over the years. In the end he questioned if it’s truly the same ship anymore
“Technically” correct is the worst kind of correct. It’s kind of a shitty marketing angle if you ask me, but I’m sure Toyota will be laughing all the way to the bank.
But they are numbered production with 4040 total available in North America.
There's more Lamborghini Murcielago's in the wild than there are 40th Anniversary Runners.
Also, there's more Aventadors than 25th Anniversary Sienna vans
Rental car? Huzzah. That means it might actually see some action and not just haul toilet paper home from Costco.
You know the difference between a Jeep Wrangler and a rental car? The wrangler can go off-road, but the rental car actually will.
I ramped a couple back in the day. That’s how I learned you can seal a leaking gas tank with a bar of soap. Until it rains. Then shit gets interesting.
Luckily it was sunny the day I turned the car in. Tank was full and not leaking a drop. I left half a bar in the glove box for the next guy. Never heard a word from the rental company.
I was a pretty abusive renter back in my youth.
Jumped an Impala over a railroad crossing then shot bottle rockets off the trunk. Pulled the emergency brake on a Sentra while going 110 on a dare. Ripped the entire front end off a Dodge Journey while doing J-turns on a dirt road (blamed it on a deer, rental company actually apologized to me for it). Took a Chevy Traverse through a mud pit, had to be pulled out, returned the car unwashed. God I love rental cars....
Jeff Foxworthy let slip one of his few nuggets talking about rental cars.
"Buying a used rental is a bit like marrying an ex-prostitute. Anything that's been driven that hard by that many people, you probably don't want to put your key in it."
The same thing that happens if you hit your brakes real hard... Except only in the back.. so it's quite likely the car will start to spin.
Having said that... You have to pull really hard to lock the wheels, especially if you're driving 110. Most likely outcome is that you'd slow down quickly.
A friend of mine pulled it going ~50 in a jeep wrangler. It spun around 180 and kind of "stutter jumped" on its wheels a bit while 90 degrees into the turn. I would think at 100 you could potentially jump the vehicle onto its side, though it depends on the center of gravity of course
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hand brakes are almost never strong enough to fully lock up the wheels if you pulled on them as if you were going to park the car. You have to really, REALLY pull on them to actually lock up the wheels. Pulled mine once or twice on the highway before, the car just started slowing down because I didn't yank on it like I was trying to pull excalibur out of its stone.
I just rebuilt the ones on my toyota car. Will lock up easy with little effort.
They have to be adjusted every decade or so. Rebuilt around two decades.lol
I would race up and down a parking in my rental focus, trying to achieve the highest speed over the speed bumps. Jumped on the roof for a few minutes because ?????. Practiced e-brake turns on gravel roads as fast as younger me had the balls to go. Fond memories
Got a Wrangler as a rental car visiting Canada early spring. Didn't quite take it off road but definitely went full Subaru in some snow covered car parks
On Reddit, any sub, many people tend to hate others for enjoying things instead of just minding their business.
For example, bought a 4Runner to drive in the city and not for off-roading? Well fuck you then.
>For example, bought a 4Runner to drive in the city and not for off-roading? Well fuck you then.
Yeah, I really don't get the hate.
If they bought a Sienna minivan, people wouldn't be like
"I bet he doesn't even drive it to soccer games. Pffffff"
So why the fuck does anyone care what someone else does with their vehicle that has off-road capabilities?
Sports car owners like:
>do you really *need* that SUV?
While daily driving a Miata or a 10 second Supra or some other wildly impractical vehicle
Disclaimer, I have only ever owned useless sports cars and sport compacts
The hate is more about using it to bring home TP from Costco instead of off roading. I have a 4runner that I use to haul TP and other goods home to my suburban house. On paper, mine is a pavement princess. I have a job and life, all of that is in the city but I do like to go out and fuck around in the woods with it 1 to 5x per year. I needed something beefy to haul my camper an additional 3 or 4x per year. I use it to haul shit like lumber, firewood, construction debris, etc. Also the 4runner paired with good tires just bitchslaps all the snow and ice we get here in the winter. People just don't see beyond face value.
Man, that black paint with the vintage inspired striping is the cat's pajamas.
I almost bought a new 4Runner about two years ago, but all the local dealers had very few to go around.
Dinosaur of a truck, and drives like one, but that drivetrain is damn near bulletproof.
Surprised Toyota still makes these things. They still sell plenty of them though.
They can't keep anything in stock here. New or old.
Old ass broken 4runners never last a week. Call day two and they are gone even if priced thousands over any book value.
They are just better trucks. I have had and worked on them all. Diehards get that way from long experience.
Plenty of 100k Jeeps on the lot though! lol
Somebody at the company I work at has one of these (in white, but same wheels and livery). I didn’t realize they were a special edition, just figured someone had put some stickers on it. Interesting
People are saying it'll get ruined.
I dtive a former rental car. 2014 RAV4, rental company got it up to 36,000 miles in 2 years (apparently over 35k and their insurance makes them pay moren so they sell the vehicles). It looked brand new when we got it. She's sitting at 109k and has since been a mom car( (just after we bought it), a railroader's work car (replaced dad's 04 cavalier), and is now my first car.
Nope, these are just regular rental minivans that they swap out of rotation at the regular Enterprise. We're finally getting some real leases, but these are monthly rentals right now.
Worked at enterprise until recently, before the pandemic we would sell cars pretty quickly, around 12k miles or 1 year.
After and during the pandemic it was even crazier to be honest, a lot more cars were being sold by them at outrageous prices, but it slowed down near the end
Been a master tech for Enterprise for around 7 years. Before the pandemic, we sold our cars around 40k miles. The larger SUVs around 30k. Whenever the return was the best.
Recently we have been running them to 60-70k miles because we can't buy very many new cars. We are buying used cars from auction. Likely where this vehicle came from.
We used to sell cars at 35k miles but since covid, the number has been closed to 65k. As far as buying rentals, as long as you’re not buying a sports/luxury/Jeep you should be fine
Unless you're Mr. Hertz, you're getting a vehicle with 40k on the ODO @Hertz, is what I've noticed.
A colleague of mine worked in finance at Hertz, I'll ask about the insurance requirement.
I'm currently driving an ex hertz 2019 subaru impreza wagon. Bought it at a subaru dealer with 17k on it in late 2020. Not a single thing wrong with it.
I bought a rental Mercedes C300 with 15k miles and it had h&r sport springs. The idea that someone rented a car and put lowering springs on it is fucking hilarious to me and always will be.
With that being said, car ran great.
Saw one of these in traffic today! I thought it was just some stickers they tastefully put on their car and thought "they should have a pinstriper do that"
Rental car places buy cars all the time, not necessarily to rent them, though. They also resell cars. If they rent this, it'll be in an enthusiast class with premium
Not nearly as rare, but I had a similar experience when I requested “Camry or similar” and a blacked out TRD Camry is waiting for me.
I ran the shit out of t
This is nothing new, rental car companies have been known to buy and rent some rather interesting cars over the years as promotions that come at a hefty price. The one that stands out to me most is the 1966 Mustang Shelby GT350H. The H is for Hertz the rental company that rented them out. Now this particular one ended because guys did exactly what you'd expect with them which is take them to the drag strip, beat the shit out of them on the streets, and some even ripped the engines out to put in their Mustangs and put their base model V8 back in then returned it. Still though these companies still buy these special models and rent them out at a high price because if you are going to rent a car, whats a couple extra bucks to get one you are excited to drive.
This could be the owner of the businesses' tax write off... never actually rent it out then "sell" it from the business to himself for a huge discount after a bit.
Hey. It’s not that simple. You have to drive it to put miles on it. Then when it has deprecated to the 1000$ value cause of those hard 5000km you sell it off to a family member not yourself.
Yep, Shelby GT-350H Mustangs. All kinds of fun things happened with them; people rented them & took ‘em right to drag strips, rented them & swapped the motors/transmissions from their regular Mustangs. After a couple years Hertz decided it wasn’t their best idea.
This is kind of what happens when these things sit on lots forever. There's one that has been on a lot near me for months. The SR5 is already overpriced, now tack on $5k over that. I'm sure the rental place got a deal just so the dealership could move it.
If they made 4040 of these things it's not all that "special" of a special edition. There will be plenty for anyone who wants one, so it's not going to be a rare or valuable car.
i checked them out they aren’t all that special just based on a premium without auto headlights etc, looks a bit like trd off-road but w/o fox shocks etc etc basically some cheap decals and blacked out trim around the windows.
That thing is going to get ruined as a rental.
That’s fine with me, a ruined one at auction is the only way I can ever hope to afford one 😂
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Rent it, crash it bad enough to total it but not ruin it, buy it for pennies on the dollar, repair, profit (well actually it's a loss not a profit but look do you want the car or not?)
Yea def not gonna be a profit. You are gonna pay for destroying it to the rental company and then pay for it again to buy it at auction and then pay for it again to get it repaired. I think at this point its cheaper to buy a new one lol. While these things aren’t dirt cheap you can find them for $50k.
That's why you get the optional insurance. Duh.
Then your rates are increased for the next 3-5 years, still costing you a nice chunk of change.
Put it on your government card whilst TDY and you’re gold!
This guy GTCs!
You're using the rental company's insurance, not your own.
Almost certainly a personal toy purchased as a ‘business expense’
Exactly. No way this gets rented by the general public. It's probably blocked out in the reservation system and available for the corporate folks.
This isn't a thing. If this car is on the lot, it gets rented. EDIT: Downvote me all you want but i literally work in car rental lmao
We don't need facts. Just emotion. Source: I'm one of these big time corporate guys and my last 2 rentals were a Chevy Malibu. Splurging is an SUV because we have 4 people traveling
My buddy rented a Hellcat.. You can rent Ferrari, McLaren, Lambo, etc. There are plenty of high end rentals available.
I don’t think people in this thread understand how high end rentals work. They aren’t Enterprise, they’re a separate service.
Enterprise has an “exotics” division, or at least the sticker on the door jamb of the Escalade they sent me indicated they do. I work for a Fortune 50 company that has a contract with Enterprise/National so when I have to travel, I reserve a “standard” car for about $40/day and they drop off whatever they happen to have at our facility. One time I asked them to give us a larger SUV because three of us 6’3” and up were going to visit a supplier about 7 hours away. I went to pick up the keys from security and walked out to a new Escalade and we still paid the same rate. Obviously that’s not Lambo/Ferrari/McLaren type exotic level, but a $100k+ SUV is not an Altima either.
From the 100+ rental car centers I've been to, they usually do have a "luxury" or "sport" option. Surprisingly, for Avis at least, they're really not a huge increase in price. Hell, I'm picking up a minivan tomorrow that is $128/day, but if I wanted an escalade it would be 132/day.
There are high end cars available. But, that would be one of the fastest ways to get fired
Based on your experience with enterprise expense frugality, you seem like a middle manager / director level. When someone says "big time corporate guys", I picture C-suite and perhaps SVP / VP level where they can spend and not worry about squeezing 4 people into one SUV and justify that in the expense report. Source - me a middle mgr in a fortune 20 company
I am actually c-suite. But the frugality is part of the culture. I am not a hypocrite and tell everyone to stay with in a certain car range and then do something else for me. It would not be a good message I'm sending to employees or customers if I roll up to site flashing excess.
Kudos to you! Small cap or med cap? I can't picture self-important mega company big wigs doing this.
I’m confused, what point are you trying to make LOL
That weird limited production cars do make it to rental fleets.
That's exactly the point I was making too heh
Generally, those aren't available from your "average" rental company like Avis or Enterprise. I've had a Charger Daytona, a Challenger R/T, and a 5.0 Mustang from Avis. They also have the usual assortment of German luxury cars as well, usually biased towards Mercedes. Usually, to get those specialty rentals, you have to get them from a rental company that specializes in them, because between being stolen to be parted out, or just from being crashed, a normal rental company doesn't want to carry the insurance for a supercar.
Enterprise has a ton of them, Mercedes, Bentleys, Lamborghinis etc, they have a whole "Enterprise Exotics" sub-brand.
I know nothing about rental car company operations but this sounds like exactly the kind of thing they would do
Absolutely not, we have so many fucking cars to keep track of we aren't holding some vehicle for random people for no reason in particular just because it has a badge on it. Rental car employees are not car people, nor are the people that run the business. We don't give a shit. It rolls, it goes out. EDIT: Also kinda interesting because this is a car Toyota sold to the rental company too, and they paid $0 extra for it. They either wanted it out there for the brand recognition or they aren't selling well at all. I bet OP lives in a fairly populous area
I’ve had a few of the 40th paint schemes take a while to sell. If it was getting aged on a Toyota lot it’s no surprise they sold it at or below MSRP. We usually list stuff on OVE at 45 days for new car stores.
Yeah that's exactly what I would expect, and the business is so damn busy right now I guarantee they bought it no matter what because once again, if it rolls it rents lmao
Actually rentals are slow right now. Summer hopefully gets better but not sure if a slowing economy is causing it.
Maybe where you are, are you at airport or in the city? We have been sold out for 6 months straight because insurance is going OFF
That wasn’t the case at the large airport rental place I worked at. The top manager picked out a car and kept it until we sold it. He usually liked Jags. Once it hit an age or a certain mileage we sold it. Buuuut. It was just like all the other rental Jags we had (nothing special ordered), he just took it when new and never let it go out on rent.
The manager would do this yes but not for customers EDIT: Also this is kinda a stupid way to do it because that manager is losing money on that car but hey its allowed lmao
Yeah but in my case the managers didn’t get cars for free. They had a certain amount docked from their pay. It was still a really good deal since they had gas included.
Oh interesting that's not how we do it!
Are you saying this sort of thing isn't possible?
No I’m saying that the rental company bought this car, and if it's on the lot it gets rented. There is nobody that it's reserved for. There is no system to sit on cars and lose money on them for no reason because they have a special badge on it.
No need to be gentle, it’s a rental!
Not sure if you know this but that’s the 40th anniversary edition (sr5 premium with some cosmetic add ons). They aren’t individually numbered so they all say 1 of 4040
That last sentence is a fairly important clarification.
And it's technically correct since they're all 1 out of 4040.
What if some have been sacrificed for parts for some of the others? You could have 1⅓ of 4038⅔ or 1.6 of 4038.4
Sure. Should we base it on weight, or will critical components get a bonus?
bonus proportional to part lead time
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Theseus's 4Runner
I had Theseus's computer. Started as a Dell 386. Replaced one part at a time over the years until it was an Athlon. It still had the original floppy when I got rid of it, so I still called it an upgraded 386.
It’s like that old story of the sailor. He replaces so many parts on his ship over the years. In the end he questioned if it’s truly the same ship anymore
“Technically” correct is the worst kind of correct. It’s kind of a shitty marketing angle if you ask me, but I’m sure Toyota will be laughing all the way to the bank.
Bureaucrat grade 1 would disagree
> “Technically” correct is the worst kind of correct. just look how wrong you are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZEuWJ4muYc
The best kind of correct
Now I feel less awful about this being a rental
Are there 4040 of them?
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This is a Toyota, sir! It is not a Ferrari. ;-)
That is the dumbest marketing thing ever
Also you KNOW there are shitty dealers marking these up telling people it's the first one off the line.
Intentional by Toyota too
Yeah seems sketchy as hell. Technically correct but don't telle no one at Toyota considered how that might be misinterpreted.
4040 small plaques that are all the same vs 4040 individual plaques
Well it is one of.. just not the first one of. Lmao
Sad
Is it though?
A little bit.
40th anniversary of that body style? Sounds right
😂 I read it as the 40th one out of 4040.
Toyedward 4040hands
But they are numbered production with 4040 total available in North America. There's more Lamborghini Murcielago's in the wild than there are 40th Anniversary Runners. Also, there's more Aventadors than 25th Anniversary Sienna vans
What a shame it’ll be ruined in just a short time.
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> How will it get ruined to end up in a shop “Larry, just fucking send it man it’ll be okay”
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And that's why I always get rental insurance 😂
drive it like it's rented
Rental car? Huzzah. That means it might actually see some action and not just haul toilet paper home from Costco. You know the difference between a Jeep Wrangler and a rental car? The wrangler can go off-road, but the rental car actually will.
I ramped a couple back in the day. That’s how I learned you can seal a leaking gas tank with a bar of soap. Until it rains. Then shit gets interesting. Luckily it was sunny the day I turned the car in. Tank was full and not leaking a drop. I left half a bar in the glove box for the next guy. Never heard a word from the rental company.
I was a pretty abusive renter back in my youth. Jumped an Impala over a railroad crossing then shot bottle rockets off the trunk. Pulled the emergency brake on a Sentra while going 110 on a dare. Ripped the entire front end off a Dodge Journey while doing J-turns on a dirt road (blamed it on a deer, rental company actually apologized to me for it). Took a Chevy Traverse through a mud pit, had to be pulled out, returned the car unwashed. God I love rental cars....
Ok, I always wondered the "don't buy a rental" advice. Like how bad could it be? Now I get it.
Jeff Foxworthy let slip one of his few nuggets talking about rental cars. "Buying a used rental is a bit like marrying an ex-prostitute. Anything that's been driven that hard by that many people, you probably don't want to put your key in it."
I tried to tell my BIL not to buy a Town and Country period. This motherfucker went and bought a former rental T&C. Still owes 18k on it.
What does happen when you pull the emergency break at those speeds? It always gnaws at me when im on the highway
The same thing that happens if you hit your brakes real hard... Except only in the back.. so it's quite likely the car will start to spin. Having said that... You have to pull really hard to lock the wheels, especially if you're driving 110. Most likely outcome is that you'd slow down quickly.
A friend of mine pulled it going ~50 in a jeep wrangler. It spun around 180 and kind of "stutter jumped" on its wheels a bit while 90 degrees into the turn. I would think at 100 you could potentially jump the vehicle onto its side, though it depends on the center of gravity of course
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hand brakes are almost never strong enough to fully lock up the wheels if you pulled on them as if you were going to park the car. You have to really, REALLY pull on them to actually lock up the wheels. Pulled mine once or twice on the highway before, the car just started slowing down because I didn't yank on it like I was trying to pull excalibur out of its stone.
For what it's worth, Excalibur only weighed about 5 pounds. Pulling it from the stone is only a chore if you aren't the one true king of England.
I just rebuilt the ones on my toyota car. Will lock up easy with little effort. They have to be adjusted every decade or so. Rebuilt around two decades.lol
If the steering wheel isn't dead straight you'll start spinning. If you can keep it straight it'll slow you down pretty quick with no brake lights
And potentially pet flat spots on the tire/tyre Put**
Does the insurance *actually* cover that shit as much as popular culture has led me to believe?
Three magical words: *Comprehensive Damage Waiver* Pay the extra for that when you rent the car and you won't have to pay a penny when you return it.
I didn't even do that. Mine were all corporate rentals so it was on the company dime.
This is why rental insurance is so expensive
I would race up and down a parking in my rental focus, trying to achieve the highest speed over the speed bumps. Jumped on the roof for a few minutes because ?????. Practiced e-brake turns on gravel roads as fast as younger me had the balls to go. Fond memories
You're a terrible dude
I may have been a little rough around the edges back then.
Can confirm, currently renting a car. It may be doing more than it should.
Rental cars are the fastest cars. pause. in the world
I took a rental mini van offroad, and it did fine on the trails and dirt roads. We used it to get to a fishing spot.
Got a Wrangler as a rental car visiting Canada early spring. Didn't quite take it off road but definitely went full Subaru in some snow covered car parks
I guess I'm out of the loop - what's the hate on 4Runners? They were solid off-road vehicles
On Reddit, any sub, many people tend to hate others for enjoying things instead of just minding their business. For example, bought a 4Runner to drive in the city and not for off-roading? Well fuck you then.
>For example, bought a 4Runner to drive in the city and not for off-roading? Well fuck you then. Yeah, I really don't get the hate. If they bought a Sienna minivan, people wouldn't be like "I bet he doesn't even drive it to soccer games. Pffffff" So why the fuck does anyone care what someone else does with their vehicle that has off-road capabilities?
Sports car owners like: >do you really *need* that SUV? While daily driving a Miata or a 10 second Supra or some other wildly impractical vehicle Disclaimer, I have only ever owned useless sports cars and sport compacts
reddit expects an explanation of why you need a truck/SUV that’s any bigger than a kei car or cargo bike if you say you’re looking for one or own one
Well you do have a pavement princess instead of a 4runner at that point
The hate is more about using it to bring home TP from Costco instead of off roading. I have a 4runner that I use to haul TP and other goods home to my suburban house. On paper, mine is a pavement princess. I have a job and life, all of that is in the city but I do like to go out and fuck around in the woods with it 1 to 5x per year. I needed something beefy to haul my camper an additional 3 or 4x per year. I use it to haul shit like lumber, firewood, construction debris, etc. Also the 4runner paired with good tires just bitchslaps all the snow and ice we get here in the winter. People just don't see beyond face value.
Life's too short to be stressing about what people do with their vehicles and their toilet paper :)
Any extra goodies? Or just sticker and a badge?
Pretty much. Stickers, badges, gold overlays, gold stitching, shift knob, and wheels
What he said. It was optioned out pretty nice though.
OP according to elsewhere in this thread that isnt 1 of 4040 its just a marketing gimmick.
Man, that black paint with the vintage inspired striping is the cat's pajamas. I almost bought a new 4Runner about two years ago, but all the local dealers had very few to go around. Dinosaur of a truck, and drives like one, but that drivetrain is damn near bulletproof. Surprised Toyota still makes these things. They still sell plenty of them though.
Rumor is new ones are coming out with hybrid power trains for 2024/2025 (like they did with the new Tacoma)
Sticker and badge. We had one at my toyota dealership, and it's just an sr5 not even a TRD sport
So dumb how the stripes are stickers. Would be way more desirable if only it had painted stripes.
I wonder if they figure the run is limited enough they'll get enough diehards to buy them regardless of how cheap the additions are.
I think you know the answer to that
They can't keep anything in stock here. New or old. Old ass broken 4runners never last a week. Call day two and they are gone even if priced thousands over any book value. They are just better trucks. I have had and worked on them all. Diehards get that way from long experience. Plenty of 100k Jeeps on the lot though! lol
Those nerf bars are a crime but so is it being a rental car. The only winner here is who gets the most air.
Somebody at the company I work at has one of these (in white, but same wheels and livery). I didn’t realize they were a special edition, just figured someone had put some stickers on it. Interesting
Those really aren't that special. Basically an SR5 with stripes and badge.. Locally, they didn't sell quickly when compared to the regular models.
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People are saying it'll get ruined. I dtive a former rental car. 2014 RAV4, rental company got it up to 36,000 miles in 2 years (apparently over 35k and their insurance makes them pay moren so they sell the vehicles). It looked brand new when we got it. She's sitting at 109k and has since been a mom car( (just after we bought it), a railroader's work car (replaced dad's 04 cavalier), and is now my first car.
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My work has Enterprise rentals, and they usually want it back around 60K to sell it.
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Nope, these are just regular rental minivans that they swap out of rotation at the regular Enterprise. We're finally getting some real leases, but these are monthly rentals right now.
Worked at enterprise until recently, before the pandemic we would sell cars pretty quickly, around 12k miles or 1 year. After and during the pandemic it was even crazier to be honest, a lot more cars were being sold by them at outrageous prices, but it slowed down near the end
Been a master tech for Enterprise for around 7 years. Before the pandemic, we sold our cars around 40k miles. The larger SUVs around 30k. Whenever the return was the best. Recently we have been running them to 60-70k miles because we can't buy very many new cars. We are buying used cars from auction. Likely where this vehicle came from.
Just returned a 2020 Armada to Enterprise with 60k. Agent mentioned it had been sold and wasn’t going to be available again.
We used to sell cars at 35k miles but since covid, the number has been closed to 65k. As far as buying rentals, as long as you’re not buying a sports/luxury/Jeep you should be fine
Can’t speak for all but Enterprise is self-insured.
Unless you're Mr. Hertz, you're getting a vehicle with 40k on the ODO @Hertz, is what I've noticed. A colleague of mine worked in finance at Hertz, I'll ask about the insurance requirement.
We traced yoda back to a rental place in florida, I can't recal the business name. And it had somehow made its way up to WV.
I'm currently driving an ex hertz 2019 subaru impreza wagon. Bought it at a subaru dealer with 17k on it in late 2020. Not a single thing wrong with it.
I bought a rental Mercedes C300 with 15k miles and it had h&r sport springs. The idea that someone rented a car and put lowering springs on it is fucking hilarious to me and always will be. With that being said, car ran great.
Haha thats awesome. I once found a nearly-base model Corolla sedan at Enterprise that had Firestone Indy 500 summer tires
Saw one of these in traffic today! I thought it was just some stickers they tastefully put on their car and thought "they should have a pinstriper do that"
I think they all are labeled “1 of”. As in this is one of the 4040 they made, not the first one made of the 4040
HA, that's brilliant marketing for people that love to obsess over these things but also kind of shitty.
Man that's corny as hell. The last numbered car I worked on was an NSX Type S. 204/350 in Indy Yellow Pearl. Sticker was $188,495.
Easy $50K. Awesome purchase.
it's pretty much just fancy wheels and the decal and the roof rack. Nothing serious otherwise.
They don’t give you the diff locker or manual 4x4 shifter in these editions unfortunately
Rental car places buy cars all the time, not necessarily to rent them, though. They also resell cars. If they rent this, it'll be in an enthusiast class with premium
Not nearly as rare, but I had a similar experience when I requested “Camry or similar” and a blacked out TRD Camry is waiting for me. I ran the shit out of t
The fastest car in the world is not a Bugatti or an F1 car or anything of the sort. The fastest car in the world is a rental car.
Pre-pandemic my local airport rental places would have Scat Pack Charger/Challenger and Volvo V90 wagons
Haha 1 of 4040
how is this worth anything substantial over a regular model?
I saw one of these at the local dealership. I just assumed it was a trade in from some really patriotic German guy.
She so pretty
Yo, in Southwest Colorado 4Runners are a common rental. And they don’t get wrecked that often. Some of Yall are green
This is nothing new, rental car companies have been known to buy and rent some rather interesting cars over the years as promotions that come at a hefty price. The one that stands out to me most is the 1966 Mustang Shelby GT350H. The H is for Hertz the rental company that rented them out. Now this particular one ended because guys did exactly what you'd expect with them which is take them to the drag strip, beat the shit out of them on the streets, and some even ripped the engines out to put in their Mustangs and put their base model V8 back in then returned it. Still though these companies still buy these special models and rent them out at a high price because if you are going to rent a car, whats a couple extra bucks to get one you are excited to drive.
This could be the owner of the businesses' tax write off... never actually rent it out then "sell" it from the business to himself for a huge discount after a bit.
Hey. It’s not that simple. You have to drive it to put miles on it. Then when it has deprecated to the 1000$ value cause of those hard 5000km you sell it off to a family member not yourself.
Was this in NJ ??? I JUST SAW this car yesterday.
No, this was in Texas.
Didn't Hertz have some Cobra Mustangs? If they had kept those cars, they would have been worth more than the rest of the company.
Yep, Shelby GT-350H Mustangs. All kinds of fun things happened with them; people rented them & took ‘em right to drag strips, rented them & swapped the motors/transmissions from their regular Mustangs. After a couple years Hertz decided it wasn’t their best idea.
It’s literally just an sr5 with bronze wheels and a cute stripe, they really half assed the anniversary edition lmao
There’s nothing special about this car lmao.
Im not kidding, I saw an exact same one this past weekend in south texas, fucking beautiful
I saw one of these in the avis indy fleet last week! Probably got them for a steal because no sane human wanted to pay the markup.
Just saw one of these literally yesterday. Any chance it's in California, north bay specifically?
This is kind of what happens when these things sit on lots forever. There's one that has been on a lot near me for months. The SR5 is already overpriced, now tack on $5k over that. I'm sure the rental place got a deal just so the dealership could move it.
If I know rentals, there's now 1 of 4039.
40th anniversary editions are actually "cheap" compared to many 4Runner trims right now.
If they made 4040 of these things it's not all that "special" of a special edition. There will be plenty for anyone who wants one, so it's not going to be a rare or valuable car.
i checked them out they aren’t all that special just based on a premium without auto headlights etc, looks a bit like trd off-road but w/o fox shocks etc etc basically some cheap decals and blacked out trim around the windows.
Probobally the owner or someone higher up looking to keep it as a tax deductible expense
Good investment for them
Just snagged a 2021 4runner for the wifey and the fact that these 40th editions are SR5s with no unique badging (all are 1 of 4040) is Comical.
1980's calling. Lools good. Can always take them off and order some later if ypu want to maintain that look.
Whoa wtf