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This spring I got an offer from my local Ford dealer to buy my 2015 Mustang for more than I bought it for. In 2016. It's insane! The crunch has abated some, t

This spring I got an offer from my local Ford dealer to buy my 2015 Mustang for more than I bought it for. In 2016. It's insane! The crunch has abated some, though, and it was only for a short period of time you could get offers like that, but still! > smart people have vaccinated themselves and they start traveling again. And those people want to rent cars. Note that this is a very American thing though, because international travel is still banned, which means that Americans are forced to travel domestically, and when Americans go on a holiday, they rent a car, because you rent a car, because you have to have a car, and the idea of not renting a car when on holiday is completely alien to Americans. Normally, most of them would go abroad, and rent cars there, while the domestic car rental market would target non-American tourists, who rent cars less, so there's an even bigger demand for rental cars now than it would be if tourist patterns were back to normal.

maxerickson 5y ago
The typical American holiday involves driving an owned car to somewhere not all that far away.
d0gsg0w00f 5y ago
That and you can still transmit covid when vaccinated so it's kind of part of the problem to go jetsetting around the globe spreading virus to less fortunate populations.
Reason077 5y ago
> "Note that this is a very American thing ... when Americans go on a holiday, they rent a car, because you rent a car, because you have to have a car, and the idea of not renting a car when on holiday is completely alien to Americans." When I go on holiday in a European city I wouldn't normally rent a car (unless the holiday involved travel to somewhere outside of the city). But when I go on holiday in an American city then of course you rent a car because it's a hassle to try and get around without one and you're going to miss out on a lot of the "American cultural experience" without a car. (Exceptions: NYC, and perhaps Las Vegas) So it has a lot more to do with the nature of the destination than the nature of the traveller, I'd say.

maxerickson 5y ago

The typical American holiday involves driving an owned car to somewhere not all that far away.

d0gsg0w00f 5y ago

That and you can still transmit covid when vaccinated so it's kind of part of the problem to go jetsetting around the globe spreading virus to less fortunate populations.

Reason077 5y ago

> "Note that this is a very American thing ... when Americans go on a holiday, they rent a car, because you rent a car, because you have to have a car, and the idea of not renting a car when on holiday is completely alien to Americans." When I go on holiday in a European city I wouldn't normally rent a car (unless the holiday involved travel to somewhere outside of the city). But when I go on holiday in an American city then of course you rent a car because it's a hassle to try and get around without one and you're going to miss out on a lot of the "American cultural experience" without a car. (Exceptions: NYC, and perhaps Las Vegas) So it has a lot more to do with the nature of the destination than the nature of the traveller, I'd say.