Sounds cool and a lot like Turo. The problems I've run into with Turo is you ultimately end up paying way more than a traditional rental car company for someone's stinky, dirty, not-well-maintained Audi SQ5 that leave's you stranded in limp mode.
If you've ever rented a car before, you'll know that the options can be pretty soul-crushing—especially after that long flight or before that special road trip.
You look around the lot and say to yourself, "There has to be something better."
Thanks to Hagerty, now there is: DriveShare. What's the best way to describe it? It's like Airbnb, but for cool cars.
Read about DriveShare over on Classic Motorsports, where we tried it out ourselves during Monterey.
What unique car would you want to rent, and would you ever consider renting out your own?
Sounds cool and a lot like Turo. The problems I've run into with Turo is you ultimately end up paying way more than a traditional rental car company for someone's stinky, dirty, not-well-maintained Audi SQ5 that leave's you stranded in limp mode.
DirtyBird222 said:Sounds cool and a lot like Turo. The problems I've run into with Turo is you ultimately end up paying way more than a traditional rental car company for someone's stinky, dirty, not-well-maintained Audi SQ5 that leave's you stranded in limp mode.
I have used turo a few times with great luck, normally cheaper than rental places. The lady is renting a tdi Jetta in FL this week.
Professor_Brap said:DirtyBird222 said:Sounds cool and a lot like Turo. The problems I've run into with Turo is you ultimately end up paying way more than a traditional rental car company for someone's stinky, dirty, not-well-maintained Audi SQ5 that leave's you stranded in limp mode.
I have used turo a few times with great luck, normally cheaper than rental places. The lady is renting a tdi Jetta in FL this week.
I've had some luck with it as well but I can rent a Camaro SS from Avis for a week for the price of half the cars on Turo for 2 days. Maybe it's just the locations I'm traveling to that pull a premium.
NSX T in my town goes for 500 a day, which sounds reasonable to enjoy such a car.....until you read that there's a 50 mile limit, and every mile over that is 2 dollars. I'd likely put a good 250 miles on it, making it damn near 1,000 dollar 1 day rental. It's not that cool.
Sound like backing from Hagerty protects the owners better than Turo does, which is nice. A quick look at cars in my area, however, showed people are really proud of their cars. Maybe as it becomes more popular, the prices will go down....
I used Turo last year to get a car for a week while I was interviewing. It was cheaper than the local rental places based in the airport because the taxes weren't as high. IIRC, I could also use my debit card and was only charged the amount of the rental as opposed to any "holding" charges the rental places have. It was easy peasy and I didn't even see the owner. I showed up to his house, he had a lockbox with the key in it, took a couple of pics of the car with the app and I was on my way. Dropping off was just as simple.
-Rob
After looking into this some more, I might just turn my Techno M3 into a rental through DriveShare.
Would there be anyone interested in renting out a stiff, if fairly civilized FWD 23 year old 423hp Nissan? If so I know a guy
David S. Wallens said:
I was perfectly fine clicking on that link, expecting it to be in some faraway land...
Well, p00p.
In reply to Cooter :
Sorry about that.
Bad for you, good for me. :)
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