Originally Posted by docbert

I regularly do one-way rentals in both directions between a local Avis and the airport, enough that I know the guys at the local Avis very well.

Going TO the airport I tell them to give me whatever they want to get rid of, which means I get a mix of everything, up to and including premium cars (eg, recently had an Infiniti QX70).

FROM the airport I've never seen any signs they are deliberately giving me the "bad" cars, and multiple times I've been given cars that were less than 1000 miles on them.

However I seriously doubt they will give you anything like a BMW! The neighborhood Avis's don't generally stock those, and if someone does return one to them it immediately gets locked in the system and they can't rent - it has to shipped back to an airport location. On the occasions that I've been given one of those they had to specifically call and get it released for rental - and even then on the specific conditions that it was to be returned to the airport and was no more than a 1-day rental!