So I just locked myself out of the rental car my insurance company is providing while the claim for my Beetle gets worked out. It's partially my own fault, of course, but it should be a pretty easy thing to fix. After all, the rental company was nice enough to provide a lavish two keys with the car. Two keys! A main…

Nothing says "awesome Hawaiian vacation" like renting a V8 convertible and blasting around Hawaii's cliffside roads.

If you've never heard of the Rental Car Rally from New York to Montreal before, let these hip Quebecoise ladies explain it to you in their native tongue. You have a sudden urge to go, now.

If you can morph into the chameleon of racecar drivers, chances are you will be successful in whatever you decide to drive. And that's good, because as Ricky Bobby said, "if you ain't first, you're last." The obvious question is how your driving should differ based on the car's configuration. Honestly, it's simple stuff.

The next race of the season was taking place at Sebring Raceway in Florida. It was five in the morning. I brushed my teeth and readied myself for a big day on track. But when you are staying in a hotel full of race team members — all driving rental cars — the battle to the racetrack can sometimes be fiercer than the…

Zipcar, the urban car sharing platform, has become so popular over the last few years that a number of similar ventures have popped up. Even OnStar users can now rent their cars out by the hour.

Shortly after 5 AM this morning in Palm Beach, Florida, the driver of a red Corvette convertible rented from Hertz proved the maxim that the fastest car is a rental car, losing control, crashing through a guardrail, and landing upside down in a canal.

Detroit's troubled twosome have revived their sales thanks to cut-rate rental cars and other fleet vehicles rather than retail customers. That didn't keep Chrysler from hinting it will raise its earnings targets soon after losing $172 million last quarter. [AutoNews]

The Porsche Panamera is now available for a 567-Euro weekend rental through Avis in Germany if you want to haul four asses plus luggage. Oh, well, we can still rent muscle cars. Press release after the jump.

Europcar, one of the largest rental companies in Europe, has heard some crazy excuses for why their rental vehicles came back late or damaged. The eight most hilarious excuses below.