Posted on 06/16/2021 1:26:44 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
It’s going to be a scorcher of a summer when it comes to car rental prices, The Post has learned.
The average daily cost to rent a car in the US jumped to a record $63.75 last month — with prices as much as 50 percent higher than pre-pandemic levels at some major brands — as the nation’s economy revved back to life, according to data collected by Jefferies, a New York investment bank.
What’s more, demand is getting so hot — with fees for August already trending above $100 a day — that many vacationers can expect to pay more than double what they would have before the pandemic, according to data on summer reservations.
“You may see consumers resort to mass transit,” Jefferies analyst Hamzah Mazari predicted.
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Deep State really, really doesn’t like us driving.
The elites are pining for the good old days when only the very wealthy drove cars and peons had to settle for horses and buggies.
My car bit the dust in early May. New car supply is short, so I considered renting a car for a month or two until I got the car I wanted, at the price I wanted. For the price of a two month rental, I could have made six car payments. I took what I could find, and it was an overly optioned 6.5% off MSRP SUV.
I booked a RAV4 in January to use beginning 6/7. $187/week. In the two weeks preceding 6/7 I was called three times to confirm that I still wanted the car. That’s never happened before.
During the peak pandemic I actually rented a lot of cars. Nice sedans for under $20 a day, compact car for under $15 a day. Last I checked they had tripled already but that was Easter week so could be a demand issue for that. Would not be surprised if they went up higher by end of summer. They were a little cheaper at the airport but not by much, and is sort of to be expected since they have a lot of cars at the airport rental lots vs the ones inside city areas.
Just checked on one week car rental for September: more than $800, of which nearly half is for taxes and fees!
$106 / day for a compact in rural southwest PA, now.
https://www.autoblog.com/2021/05/03/rental-car-agencies-buying-used-cars-chip-shortage/
We’re lucky, over the years we’ve made our hideout the way we like it, like a sanctuary with most everything we need or like. It’s why when we leave the compound we only travel locally and very little of that nowadays. I no longer like or desire to be around strange people or big crowds. Been there done that. In fact is someone gave be free tickets on one of those floating apartment building cruises, I’ve give them away or sell them.
Er...In fact if someone gave me free tickets on one of those floating apartment building cruises, I’ve give them away or sell them.
People that fly really depend on getting a rental car at the end of their travel. With prices like this it is bound the airlines. Who would want to fly if getting a rental car is out of possibility?
Even if they gave me a complementary fully stocked limo at the end of a trip, I have no desire or need to fly anywhere. I really like it this way!☺
It’s gonna be very interesting by August. Keeping the car in good shape. Stocking up on pretty much everything, many dry and canned staples. Canning meat (no freezer needed), drying fruit, making jerky. Barrel of water in basement (might get another). Extra gasoline, propane, kerosene. Oh yeah, and ammo.
I always wondered why car rentals for a week or more were so cheap here compared to Europe. Guess that’s over for now.
I just moved back the U.S. from Europe. The rental car for me, my wife, and our oversized mutt is costing me twice what I pay for my truck. Can’t wait until the truck gets here and unloaded off the boat. I want my own wheels again.
Of course, I have to buy her a car as well. We sold her undersized German car and the replacement won’t be cheap. But she puts up with me, so it’s worth it at twice the price.
While I was having my Tacoma serviced, my wife got a couple of calls from the dealership wanting to buy it back.
If I had one of the project buckets roadworthy, maybe.
As it stands, a couple of those might leave. I never seem to get anywhere with them. Lots of reasons. I guess a couple of Jeeps ought to be enough.
We rented a car via Thrifty a couple of weeks ago at DC’s Washington Reagan airport. Their desk was closed and two ladies at the Hertz counter were servicing renters for Hertz, Dollar and Thrifty.
I was there for two hours. When I got to the car, it had just been washed and had 50,000 miles. Never been in a rental with that many miles but it got us everywhere we wanted to go.
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