Originally Posted by
stimpy
Reserved F on a one-way to Paris
Given Ford Kuga with German plates
I'd never heard of a Kuga, but I guess it is the same as an Escape. This was loaded and a good drive. I guess they needed this German car in Paris for some logistical reason. It's the first time I can recall renting a car with foreign plates.
Could also be the LYS location offloading this German car they ended up with on a one-way - making it Paris's problem. Or they have more PAR->Germany one-way demand, so it's easier to get it back to Germany that way.
One thing I've often wondered - given the Common Market, I would have thought that some aspect of vehicle ownership (i.e. vehicle cost, taxes, registration fees, etc.) would make it make sense for a company like Hertz to register all their cars in one country, even if they're going to be rented in another country.
In the US, there's a county in the state of Tennessee (Blount County) which doesn't charge an annual renewal fee for license plates. So, a huge portion of Hertz's cars are registered in Blount County, even if they never get within 1000 miles of Tennessee. I would have thought there would be a similar regulatory "hack" possible in the EU, but maybe not.