I was tempted to ask some of my general rental car questions on the Hertz forum, even though they didn't relate directly or exclusively to Hertz in particular, for two reasons:

1. The Hertz forum has the most posts, the most reads, and is the most active.

2. The popularity of the Hertz forum is not driven by anything related to Hertz itself, but instead appears to be the very generally oriented "Challenge" thread, where program discounts of other brands, including brands like Avis, which has it's own forum and is not even under the Hertz umbrella, are revealed and recommended by Autoslash, who stands out as the most constructive contributor to the rental car forums.

It therefore appears to me that the Hertz forum by default, but not by name, has evolved into a general rental car forum. But to me, it just seems inappropriate to cultivate general rental car topics on a brand and program specific subforum.

For example, I have questions about AARP discounts, booking through Costco membership, becoming a member of a travel club for discounts, the value of earning airline miles versus lower prices for rentals... general strategy questions that apply to any and all rental car programs, and none in particular.

Where do I appropriately ask those types of questions, or share that type of knowledge when I stumble across it?

As a native English speaking newby to FT, it would never in a million years have occurred to me to look in "Travel Buzz." I scanned the master forum list, found the big bold master forum title that said Car Rental, and looked there for car rental topics.

As for searching, sometimes I don't even know what I'm searching for, because how can I know what I don't know. Using the search term "flight" is likely to get an unmanageably large return of unsorted hits on flyertalk. I imagine that the search term "car" would yield similarly unmanageable results.

It's a small thing, but it would be nice to follow the title to the master forum of Car Rentals, and find an appropriate sub forum where general best practices on finding, selecting, booking, and insuring rental cars in general are cultivated as topics of interest that apply irrespective of the car rental brand.