DriveShare: Airbnb Meets Collector Cars

I really like this, but fear for it. One moron will ruin it. Imagine... “ hey that’s that car that I really like, the one that there’s very few of in the world, yoink!”

or “yeah, I got held at gun point while the thief took this car I borrowed” (hint- it’s somewhere in my possession)

and then the generalized 18-20yr old “man, I was uhh.. distracted, and this pedestrian walked in front of me” (texting whilst driving). 

Granted, you get reimbursed. But money doesn’t cover memories, long nights in the garage, or stories. 

In reply to Trackmouse :

Your story doesn't take in to account of the collector cars that were collected off of an auction block.

The first place my mind goes is my failed attempts to find a place specializing in Ferrari 308 rentals in Hawaii... You'd think there'd be a niche.

Soo cool.

There are some really nice ones here in chicago (albiet only about 10 so far) that go for $300 or so per day. Really neat idea.

There seems to a fair number of these but I wonder what if any of them will actually be successful

IE turo

The most rented rental in my area on turo? a standard cab longbed 2wd pickup for moving stuff

In reply to RossD :

That is true. There will be the guy that has a collection, barely drives them (since he’s not attached). Does the owner get to chose the driver?

also, what are the rules for the renter? Do you have to park in the back 40 of a parking lot? What if it is a convertible? And it rains.

I love this idea, and I’ll continue to look to see what interesting cars are in my area. That said, I don’t understand why the rates are way, way higher than similar cars at other rideshare services like Turo.

In reply to Trackmouse :

If it's actually modeled exactly like Airbnb, yes the owner gets to give the driver a yea or nay.

Also, Airbnb lets owners rate renters for how well they stuck to the rules, behaved, cleaned etc. I assume a similar rating system will be used here (I haven't tried renting anything through RideShare yet). It seems like it would be even more important with cars. 

Also, I just did a local search with DriveShare.

I could rent a military Humvee for $385 per day.

I can't find a way to change the distance, but putting in my Dayton zip code this was the only option, down in Cincinnati:

So much for that Lamborghini dream.