You usually need credit to rent a car. I'm guessing that at the prices the parent listed, the person isn't buying a $70k luxury car for $1000+ a month, but has

You usually need credit to rent a car. I'm guessing that at the prices the parent listed, the person isn't buying a $70k luxury car for $1000+ a month, but has bad credit and can't put any money down on the car so they're going to radically overspend. I'm really hoping that it's a late model Honda or Toyota that will go 300,000 miles and not something that was salvaged.