Originally Posted by
JasYHZ
** your guess is as good as mine. We keep getting Malibu's and most customers initially say "they still make those?"
** if you notice a lot of the high end cars are usually black or white; most luxury manufacturers (I'm looking at the Germans on the lot) charge extra for anything that's not black or white. Depending on what the manufacturer can provide there may be a mix of trims (some of the RAV4's we have are LE's and some XLE's...there's a Trail kicking around too). As it was explained to me we send a request to say Ford for 15000 cars for Canada for summer 2025 (usually these orders are a few years in advance). We say we want 5000 of Model A, 7000 of Model B etc etc etc. Ford comes back to us with a counter offer for adjusted amounts of each vehicle they can technically build for us and often will have caveats. For example if we ask for 5000 Explorer XLT's with Option Package 1, Ford may reply to us that "ok, we can give you 3000 XLT's at a 20% discount but you need to take 1000 Explorer Limited's and 1000 Explorer Timberlines" because they don't have the plant/system capacity for 5000 of one model.
**Escapes will be the redesigned 2023 model; some with the ST Line or Platinum trim. Rogue SV's, Sportage LX's, Tuscon Premium, Envision (base). Interesting note on Hybrids; Corolla Hybrids categorized as SCAH (odd when a gas Corolla is an ICAR), Camry SE Hybrid as FCAH and Venza LE Hybrid as SFAH
**I always book National for access to the Aisle and my employee rate is the same across all three brands. N/A/E will rent to graduated licence holders in our group as long as the rules for their licence level are followed. The one kicker is that anything on the National Emerald Aisle is supposed to be below 20,000 miles (32,186 klms) so that's where you'll find the newest if the station has a glut of cars. Enterprise and Alamo will share the balance no matter what the mileage is. I know we ran some REALLY ripe ones while waiting for deliveries but hopefully now that's a thing of the past.
Thanks! I didn't know National and Alamo also rent to Ns, G2s etc (the graduated classes in BC and ON), but I guess that makes sense since I think the underlying insurance is all the same for all the brands. I guess that makes sense since when I rent National the insurance inside the glove box says "Enterprise" so there is no rational reason for National to disallow Ns, G2s but Enterprise allows it. Maybe my friend mistold me and it is only Avis/Budget that is strict about full licence requirements.
Honestly, I really hope the Malibu does not go away. The Camry just feels more boring.
I always thought SCAR was only Jettas.
That's really interesting on how large fleet purchases work and I didn't know it was ordered that far in advance. That would explain why I sometimes see different trims and option packages on the lot. Yes, I did notice that the BMWs in Vancouver are always white and black and when I went online I noticed only these two colors were free, but they bought the "sport package" for these cars which I thought was unusual for them to add that option. There's also at least one 228i I have rented that has the M design option. I have noticed that the BMWs do not come with key less entry... I can get that ina much cheaper FCAR lol
Just curious are there any other cars currently in the fleet that is PCAR beyond the Maximas? In Vancouver they never seem to have PCARs beyond maybe a few Maximas floating around. Sometimes I don't want like a BMW but want something a bit more interesting than a Camry which I think PCAR does well to fill the niche but usually I get upgraded to a BMW or an Intermediate SUV.
lol just last month at YYZ there was an Escape on ES with 55K km -- the agent didn't want me to take it when he saw I was interested. He said the miles are way too high. I ended up with a 800KM Tuscon instead.