Car rental companies buy many cars from surplus dealer inventories, often towards the end of a model year. That's where they can get new reliable cars in bulk,

Car rental companies buy many cars from surplus dealer inventories, often towards the end of a model year. That's where they can get new reliable cars in bulk, and they don't care about color or particular models. So when you get an orange Aztek at the rental counter, that's because nobody bought it on the lot and Hertz scooped it up cheap.