Anyone ever do the exotic car rental thing?

[BigRon]

I heard a story about a guy who rented a Porsche 996 in Cali and took it to Willow Springs for a track day.
And returned it with tires down to the cords and no brakes.
Drove the tires through a bunch of mud and parked it in the furthest spot from the rental place when he returned it.

:snky:

[upstateclipse]

that’s a good story

[Moruitelda]

@Jim1234664

I wouldn’t be renting it for flash, just to drive hard on back roads and highways for the day. The reason for this is I will never be able to afford to buy a car like this, and even if I could I wouldn’t because of maintinence and depriciation.

but this is becoming a moot point anyway because if you have to be 25 this dream is about to be going on hold for a few years

I’d rather buy an old MR2 shell or something with my $1,000, and use a few more thousand to make it fun for years, or buy a 42" 1080p HDTV and watch the Italian Job and Gone In 60 Seconds 7,000 times than pay almost $100 an hour for a car that I don’t get to keep.

[Beck]

@Carbonfiberhooded

I was wondering if anyone knows of a place that rents out luxury SUVs around here. Like an Escalade. We wanted to get one for my wedding instead of renting a limo. I was thinking maybe a Caddy dealership would let me rent their demo for a day.

Too much liability. Just look at Marshawn Lynch.

[Jim1234664]

@Moruitelda

I’d rather buy an old MR2 shell or something with my $1,000, and use a few more thousand to make it fun for years, or buy a 42" 1080p HDTV and watch the Italian Job and Gone In 60 Seconds 7,000 times than pay almost $100 an hour for a car that I don’t get to keep.

but then it ends up costing 10k+ you have to store it for years and work on it hundreds of hours, then when its finally done, the ferrari you could have rented 8 years ago still blows it out of the water.

I already have 2 project cars, I would just be looking for a day of fun

[BigRon]

@Carbonfiberhooded

I was wondering if anyone knows of a place that rents out luxury SUVs around here. Like an Escalade. We wanted to get one for my wedding instead of renting a limo. I was thinking maybe a Caddy dealership would let me rent their demo for a day.

Call enterprise.
They do the rental cars for GM factory repairs here and they have to have large GM SUVs for rentals for the Hummer dealerships.
I got an offer to take a brand new (324 miles) Tahoe with leather last time I was at the caddy dealer.

[Carbonfiberhooded]

@BigRon

Call enterprise.
They do the rental cars for GM factory repairs here and they have to have large GM SUVs for rentals for the Hummer dealerships.
I got an offer to take a brand new (324 miles) Tahoe with leather last time I was at the caddy dealer.

Awesome! Thanks for the info!

[2TurboZ]

My sister rented her now Husband a Cadillac CTS from Jim Ball for the day on their wedding day.

My dad paid cash for his Enclave and went back and asked the salesman for a favor…but I believe they do it for everyone.

[MOBOOST4U]

Chop those prices in half and then it starts looking a little more reasonable.

But $2k for a DB9 for one day. No thank you.

[Deathproof]

stealing one would be a much cheaper way to have fun for a day.

[ryanmcell]

If you’ve got the cash to waste why not?

[Slopoke]

Dont you have to pay $$$ for each mile as well?

[Penfold]

You can go on a decent weekend vacation for $1000.

But I guess it’s all a matter of opinion. I would rather go on vacation than drive a car for a day.

[91MR2]

I would never spend $1000/day to drive anything. I’ve been fortunate to have been in most cars I’ve lusted after, and drive many of them too. The only car I have not experienced, and WOULD pay money for would be a McLaren F1. To me, nothing at all compares to that car, nothing…

[djdstar]

@Moruitelda

I’d rather buy an old MR2 shell or something with my $1,000, and use a few more thousand to make it fun for years

:redface:

[Jim1234664]

@91MR2

I would never spend $1000/day to drive anything. I’ve been fortunate to have been in most cars I’ve lusted after, and drive many of them too. The only car I have not experienced, and WOULD pay money for would be a McLaren F1. To me, nothing at all compares to that car, nothing…

not everyone is so lucky however. also I doubt these people let you beat the piss out of their cars for hours

[MOBOOST4U]

So Jim and I talked about this last night…

Im assuming these rentals are for 24 hours. With that said, You get 4 people to rent that $1000 Modena and everyone gets it for 6 hours.

Now dosent that sound much much more reasonable. I know I would pay $250 bucks plus gas for 6 hours with that car. People pay more for 6 hour track days. Even the dollar to minute ratio compared to a session at AJ’s Grand Prix costs more lol.

After doing this math, I think im gonna do it as soon as I find someone who is 25 and willing to take the liability along with them lol.

[MOBOOST4U]

Double post blahhh

[Slopoke]

@Slopoke

Dont you have to pay $$$ for each mile as well?

???

[Janus]

if you have a few thousand to burn, do something to your own car?