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Posted by krux on
Thursday April 26, 2007 @ 01:24pm
picked up the car, which turned out to be more of an annoying process than it should have been. go online, and book my reservation about a month ago. got a decent deal so I'm happy. today I walk down to the rental car place, only to find a bunch of empty lots. seems it's no longer just a walk to get a rental car. they've moved everything down to paradise and warm springs area, so this means I have to walk over to the airport to catch the shuttle, which is still close, but not as close as the car rental places use to be.
the shuttle driver was a hoot, and far more entertaining than you would expect a rental car shuttle driver to be. get to the new rental car complex-o-rama, and walk up to payless where I put my reservation in at, and to which I'm pleased has no line. now here is the bitch. I've rented with them a couple times in the past, and if you're local you have to fill out this annoying form that has a bunch of personal information on it, more than your usual car rental that just needs maybe a couple forms of ID at most. but you only have to do this once, so I didn't worry about it. ah, but today, it's a new policy. seems I have to bring a copy of my insurance, and a local utility bill. Ok, I walked to the airport, and there is no way I'm walking back and again to get absurd amounts of paperwork just to rent a car from these fucks at payless. not that I could even give them a copy of a utility bill, since those all get sent to another state where I do all my billing electronically.
I'm annoyed at this point and don't really want go through the pain of trying to figure out who has the next better price on my phone, so I just pick one at random. now I see why they had no line at payless. seems every other rental car counter has people in front of it. payless is a bunch of asshats, and I'm the only one who didn't get the memo on this today. so lucky rental car company who gets my business is dollar, who like every other rental place in the world, just needs a credit card and to see your drivers license. they didn't even want a copy of it, just seeing I had one was well enough with them.
now down in the garage, I look for a mid-sized car, and see there is exactly one, and it has people getting into it. ok.. but before I am annoyed further, an employee says, "no midsized cars? here, free upgrade, take one of these." my choices are old man mercury boat car, dodge charger, or a nissan altima. so I get the nissan altima. nissan is the poor man's infinity, so I'm happy on the car at least.
now I suppose I should finish packing.
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Posted by Stealth on
Monday April 30, 2007 @ 10:03am
Dude.. Dodge Charger FTW. Seriously.. very fun ride. Comfortable, big.. good pick-up. I drove one down in FL.. had a great time. If i was going to pick up a car back in the states I would have purchased one.. A hemi version of course.. but hella fun to drive.
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Posted by krux on
Monday April 30, 2007 @ 11:56am
Dude.. Dodge Charger FTW. Seriously.. very fun ride. Comfortable, big.. good pick-up. I drove one down in FL.. had a great time. If i was going to pick up a car back in the states I would have purchased one.. A hemi version of course.. but hella fun to drive.
Actually no. I drove a rental Dodge "charger" before, and it was a sad sad travesty to the Charger name. Besides, I like to try driving vehicles I haven't driven before if I can when renting a car.
The Nissan was a pretty cool car though. Had push button ignition, where there was no "key" to the car, just a key fob that you kept in your pocket, and if you were in the car you could start it, or if you were outside the car you could unlock it without having to press the clicker, etc... And it had some decent pickup for a rental. Like I said, the Nissan is usually gets a lot of the same stuff you see in the Infinity, since they are both made by Nissan.
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Posted by Stealth on
Monday April 30, 2007 @ 12:08pm
Dude.. Dodge Charger FTW. Seriously.. very fun ride. Comfortable, big.. good pick-up. I drove one down in FL.. had a great time. If i was going to pick up a car back in the states I would have purchased one.. A hemi version of course.. but hella fun to drive.
Actually no. I drove a rental Dodge "charger" before, and it was a sad sad travesty to the Charger name. Besides, I like to try driving vehicles I haven't driven before if I can when renting a car.
I feel you on that yeah..
The Nissan was a pretty cool car though. Had push button ignition, where there was no "key" to the car, just a key fob that you kept in your pocket, and if you were in the car you could start it, or if you were outside the car you could unlock it without having to press the clicker, etc... And it had some decent pickup for a rental. Like I said, the Nissan is usually gets a lot of the same stuff you see in the Infinity, since they are both made by Nissan.
I will admit that Altima is comfortable.. I played in one about 5 years back.. not to shabby at all. where you able to hook up your XM to the deck while you drove down?
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Posted by krux on
Wednesday May 2, 2007 @ 01:17am
I will admit that Altima is comfortable.. I played in one about 5 years back.. not to shabby at all. where you able to hook up your XM to the deck while you drove down?
Yea, the Altima had an AUX port. Though if it hadn't the XM still has a pretty good built in FM transmitter, but the AUX port is better if you have it.
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