What to rent, what to rent?

Why not start with the good stuff, the stuff that dreams and fantasies are made of? Who wouldn’t want to drive a Bentley, a Rolls, or a Ferrari? Or even ‘only’ a Mercedes or Beemer? It all comes down to just how much moxie/moolah combo you have and want to flaunt. Oooooh, Baybeh!

You can rent a Lamborghini in Manhattan for a mere $10K or so per week. You get to drive it yourself. In Manhattan? Are ya crazy? Of course, the Rolls comes only with chauffeur and only by the hour, what were you thinking? With the tip that should come to at least $400 an hour, if you’re a tightwad.

Now, in Europe, you get to slink around for a whole three days in a topless Mercedes for around $3,000 or so. (Didn’t that just make your hips wiggle?)

But, if you go to Las Vegas to cruise down the strip in the red ’59 Caddy convertible, you really ought to do the whole fedora-pinstripe-red carnation thing to make it click, ya know what I’m sayin’? Heck, it’s only around $300 per day. The real bargain is the Hummer. Somehow the Hummer doesn’t really say ‘Las Vegas’, but there’s no accounting for taste, especially…oh, forget it. And the Hummer? Just a couple of hundred a day—what a deal!

You may not be able to rent a Lamborghini in Moosebutt, State that sounds funniest, but you never know what dream mobiles you could score in L.A., Chicago, Miami, Houston, Dallas, or, of course, Mumbai.

Okay, you’ve got money flowing uphill backwards but there is really no room left in your two-acre garage for one more car. What’s an extremely wealthy individual to do? What would Bill do? Oh, we know what he’d do—buy the company. Never mind. What would, somebody else who’s not quite that rich, do? Why, join a club, of course, with other like-minded and –walleted people. You get together and buy all the hottest, hottest cars on the planet and take turns driving them. And, of course, the beauty part; someone else gets to take care of them. These clubs are taking off in the best-heeled neighborhoods but it’s like buying a yacht: if you have to ask the price, you can’t afford it.

Rent a Hybrid
Fox has hybrids in its rental fleet. EV-rentals rents only hybrids. It’s a small company with a limited market compared with all the others, but with oil prices going the way they are, they will probably get much bigger.

Rental of Classic—classic cars may be available to rent but probably only locally, if at all. Check your phone book to see if anybody near you is crazy enough to rent out his gorgeous old cars. Lotsa luck. And for the guy renting out the red convertible in Las Vegas—‘Hey, great idea!’

Rent a DeLorean If you absolutely must rent a DeLorean you can do it in the UK or Canada. Of course you can’t drive it yourself, are you kidding? We can’t give you quotes because these cars are privately owned and each owner must be e-mailed separately for their individual rates. So, you’ve got to get your own fingers tippy-tapping. Trivia: what hugely popular, late, late-night (no, not that late) TV talk-show host owned a DeLorean at the time of the designer’s, um, difficulties? Hint: same first name.

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