The Mustang convertible seems to be the default for a lot of rental car companies in LAS*. If you talk to a rental car company employee and say you’re doing the National Parks trip, they’ll often know what you’re talking about and find you a more suitable long distance ride.

*Last year when flooding did a lot of damage to Death Valley NP, tv news was showing damage to one of the parking lots where basically an entire row of obvious rental Mustangs convertibles had taken enough damage to be declared totaled. The perfesser and I just looked at each other and went ‘yep, I hope they all have good supplemental rental insurance to cover that.’