Originally Posted by
offerendum
I rented a car at Sixt. I booked a BMW 1er/ Audi A3 which was 320 € for 9 days. They tried to sell me a BMW 4er cabriolet for „only 79,00 € more per day, more than it would had cost if I had booked it straight from the beginning. So they looking for the stupid... Of course I declined, I´m anyway not a big fan of cars with missing roof.
So I got a relative new A3 TDI with navigation system, which was fine.
I found that when I booked an automatic in EU or UK, they would always try to upsell me to the next higher level, but when I decline, they would give me that car for free.
I think it is because auto are rare that they will have only big cars with it.