Quokka, thanks for a detailed explanation
Then in this case, no wonder many visitors opted to rent USED cars than the new cars from the Majors, in order to pay less in the daily CDW or a smaller amount of Excess.
This brings to my other question - how can one know a used car rental company is reliable - i.e. supply a car in the range of the years between 2000 and 2004 - there could be none 2004 but all 2000 model.
And at least 3 or 4 companies claim themselves being the largest independent rental company in NZ. Off the top of my head I can only recall Apex, but there are definitely at least 2 other companies make the similar claims.