DannyS

On Feb 19th, the Emerald Aisle had the usual selection of GM cars: mostly Malibus. There were also a bunch of VW Beetles, HHRs, and one Nissan Cube - which I snagged. It is pretty rare for a Valet Parking guy to tell you that they liked your rental car, but the Valet at our hotel in FLL did. He really dug all the headroom.

arollins

Will arrive Friday PM, what should I expect?

ssbmg

I just grabbed a Challenger (base model) from the Executive aisle yesterday for a 3 day rental. Looks like they had some Lacrosse's, Chargers, etc... Typical Executive selection.

bk3day

Arrived today (Fri) @3:15 PM and was astounded at the number of cars in both the Exec & Emerald Aisles.

Usually at MIA I'm greeted by nothing but empty spaces but today the cars were two deep in both aisles.

iirc, there were a LOT of Dodge Chargers, a VW Beetle, a few Camrys, a lot of Fords (maybe the Fusion or Focus?) but alas, no ragtops

fwiw, I chose a freshly washed Charger that had <5K miles.

dstan

Thursday late night Exec Selection:

≈4 Chevy Impala LT
≈3 Chevy Impala
≈4 Dodge Charger SXT
≈3 SUVs

Ended up taking one of the LTs with 5K miles, no satellite.

BonzoESC

I arrived at 8am on 5/18 and the lot was basically empty. Could have had a Mercury Grand Marquis from the Exec line; Dodge Nitro or a Chevrolet Impala from the regular line, and a couple scattered New Beetles and minivans. Went Impala for the aux-in on the stereo.

BonzoESC

Showed up at about 11 am on a Sunday to get a Minivan for an IKEA run. The choices were:

Volkswagen Routan (Chrysler minivan)
Dodge Caravan (Chrysler minivan)
Chrysler Town & Country (Chrysler minivan)

Took the Routan, which had a stow & go third row and removable second row captain's chairs, but the second row was a pain to remove (had to move both first row seats all the way forwards, the driver's side one with the super-slow electric adjustment). Both sliding side doors are motorized. With seats removed or stowed (doable on your own), there's enough space for a Queen-size HOPEN and all the accoutrements (mattress, base, swedish fish) in back without even thinking about it.

3Cforme

OT:

I don't know if National ever buys Chrysler or Dodge minvans with 2nd row Stow-n-Go, but you will never find it on a VW Routan - that feature is exclusive to products Chrysler sells itself.

Devyan1

Picked up a car at 9PM this past Monday at MIA.

There were ZERO cars on the Emerald aisle, that's right zero cars.

There were exactly 4 cars on in the Executive Selection. 2 Ford Fusions and 2 Pontiacs. I took a Fusion with about 2500 miles, leather, Sirius and I am quite happy.

I think it is totally unacceptable to have 4 total cars available to choose from.

bocastephen

Did you talk to a manager about bringing out more cars or finding a specific car you'd like?

bk3day

Sadly this is somewhat typical for MIA.

fwiw, when asking them for a specific type/size of car to have when none were available in the ES/EA, results have been mixed and seem to be YMMV

Devyan1

I did not...there was not a National employee in sight and after the 30 minute bus wait/ride from plane to terminal, 30 minute wait/ride from terminal to baggage claim I was in no mood to wait.

peteropny

This location really needs more cars. Picked up tonight Fri 1/14 at 9 PM - ES had a total of 4 cars (2 New Grand Cherokees with people in them, 1 Nissan Rouge (250 mi on the odometer which I took) and 1 Chevy Tahoe (way too big for my purposes this weekend)). EA had exactly one car in it a Chevy HHR.

buck3y3nut

Picked up a car on March 16th / 17th around midnight. I am Emerald Club but there was a selection of some minivans, some jeeps sitting there. There was a Sonata as well. I ended up picking up a brand new Jeep Liberty which had 4 miles on it. Unfortunately, lost the keys to the car, and had to get it changed at FLL. Since it was only 1 day, was allowed to pick anything. Went outside and saw someone grab a Nissan Altima. There seemed to be a brand new Grand Cherokee sitting. By the time i went back outside, it was also taken. Didn't want to wait to took at Dodge Journey. The car was dated, had a warning of oil change required, and the steering actually vibrated when applying brakes. Told all this when returning the car and was given a free day.
Still was happy with the car selection...

BonzoESC

Went to the Executive Aisle today at 10:30 am, got to pick from a selection of Camrys, Altimas, Impalas, a couple 300s, some minivans, an Accord, some Panthers, or a Buick of some kind. Went with a 2011 Altima 2.5S with the RFID key and Aux In.