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    Rent A Panamera For The Weekend, If You're In Germany

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    Image of Turboner Turboner
    09/17/09

    In reply to Rent A Panamera For The Weekend, If You're In Germany
    I wonder if they could fit a ski rack and some studless snow tires? That would make it harder to choose an RS4 for my trip to Ischgll after I sell my spleen.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    09/17/09

    In reply to Rent A Panamera For The Weekend, If You're In Germany
    Having been in German traffic, on and off the Autobahn, I think I better skip this. BUt I still avow my love for the Panamera!
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    Image of VeeArrrSix VeeArrrSix
    09/17/09

    In reply to Rent A Panamera For The Weekend, If You're In Germany
    Three Hot Chicks. Check
    Day Pass for the 'Ring. Check.
    Four Helmets. Check.
    Rental Panamera. Check

    HOLY CRAP... am I dead? Is this heaven?
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    09/17/09

    @VeeArrrSix: Change the Panamera with the Aston Martin Rapide and the 'Ring for Col de Turini and then, YES!!!
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    Image of VeeArrrSix VeeArrrSix
    09/17/09

    @Pessimippopotamus: Pepsi Challenge? I'll meet you at Finnegan's Wake, on Gloucester Rd in London. They have a great Jimmy Buffet cover band on Thursday nights.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    09/17/09

    In reply to Rent A Panamera For The Weekend, If You're In Germany

    I likes me some big-butted rentals...
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    09/08/09

    In reply to Eight Real Excuses Given To Rental Car Companies

    I wonder how many Corvette ZHZs have died already from track days.

    I've seen no less than three at one Cali Speedway track event this summer.
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    Image of Miscellanea Miscellanea
    09/08/09

    @Pessimipposaurus: Here's one less.

    [www.corvetteblogger.com]
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    Image of GreenN_Gold GreenN_Gold
    09/08/09

    In reply to Eight Real Excuses Given To Rental Car Companies
    I recently had to return a rental car late because I dropped the keys in the Yakima river, and getting a replacement key required dealer service. Naturally, this occured on a Sunday, which required an overnight stay in a hotel until the dealership opened on Monday.

    This was an expensive ordeal.
    Tow to nearest dealer: $370
    Overnight in hotel: $90
    Replacement key: $126
    Extra car rental day: $30
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    09/08/09


    @GreenN_Gold: Spending a weekend on the river when the salmon are REALLY jumping... Priceless.
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    Image of RLJ676-LS3 Commuter Car - for the environment RLJ676-LS3 Commuter Car - for the environment
    09/08/09

    In reply to Eight Real Excuses Given To Rental Car Companies
    I only clicked in for a good story on PMY vette, and am quite disappointed.
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    Image of Miscellanea Miscellanea
    09/08/09

    @RLJ676-LS3 Commuter Car - for the environment: I don't know if this is the matching story, but I remember images from the wreck clearly showed a PMY vette with black racing stripes. It was torn up almost identically to one in the image above.

    [www.philly.com]
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    Image of Miscellanea Miscellanea
    09/08/09

    @Miscellanea: Nevermind, that appears to be in Ohio.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    09/08/09

    @Miscellanea: It's an epidemic. Someone call CDC.
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    Image of RLJ676-LS3 Commuter Car - for the environment RLJ676-LS3 Commuter Car - for the environment
    09/08/09

    @Miscellanea: @Novaload

    Save the PMY 'vettes?
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    09/08/09

    In reply to Eight Real Excuses Given To Rental Car Companies
    Just tell 'em it'll buff right out....

    There is still Utah mud underneath the '93 Intrepid in which my wife and I took, um, a shortcut from the Natl. parks to AZ.

    "Road impassable when raining"

    Well, it wasn't raining at that exact moment....
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    09/08/09

    In reply to Eight Real Excuses Given To Rental Car Companies
    Unfortunately, I've seen most of these happen first-hand. And really, the more cars you rent out, the more likely it is that one of these is going to happen to one of your cars. None of them is outside the realm of the believable.

    Years ago I worked at the cellphone kiosk inside a video rental store. Hearing the excuses why an adult movie was three weeks overdue was the whole reason working there was tolerable.

    "I didn't want my kids to see it, so I had to wait until they weren't in the tv room before I could go in and get it to return it. "
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    Image of phdbd phdbd
    09/08/09

    In reply to Eight Real Excuses Given To Rental Car Companies
    I once fell asleep in an automatic car wash. 'tap-tap-tap..dude, you gotta go'
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    09/08/09

    @phdbd: Were you in a car?
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    09/08/09

    @Novaload: You owe me one-half a liter of bottled water...

    ...and perhaps a new laptop.
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    Image of zacarious zacarious
    09/08/09

    In reply to Eight Real Excuses Given To Rental Car Companies
    Here's a new post idea - Jalopnik countdowns that are lame ... you can start the list with this one

    p.s.. how much did Europcar pay for this?
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    09/08/09

    In reply to Eight Real Excuses Given To Rental Car Companies
    Meh. Even the outlandish ones are believable. Can't find the rental in the parking garage? Well, maybe the ditz has only had it for a few hours, and really has forgotten what it looks like.

    Cow dented the fender? Hell, where I come from nobody raises an eyebrow at that. Dang cows.

    Horse sitting on the hood. Okay, that's baloney.
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    Image of djthekidd djthekidd
    09/08/09

    @Elhigh: Hey now! I have actually lost a car in a parking garage before. Have you ever seen the garages at the Mall of America???? It is a nightmare for out-of-towners.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    09/08/09

    @djthekidd: As a matter of fact, I have. Burlington MN is a beautiful suburb of St. P, and the MOA is the Las Vegas of consumerism that they keep hidden there. I just take note of which store is closest, what my section is, etc.

    Sorry, this comes from a lifetime of parking in condensed, stacked lots. You're expected to know what you're about when you turn the key in the switch.

    And yes, I was even then from out-of-town.

    I went shopping at the MOA (favorite stores: Caribou Coffee, and the ag toys guy on the top or second-from-top level) with one son, the other didn't want to go. Hand the kid a $20 and tell him to have fun in the amusement park.

    First thing he did: ride the all-around coaster for recon so he could see which other activities looked like fun. Smart.

    Middle thing he did: won the rock climbing wall and took home the $20 they put on top as a prize. The guy told me later "he went up that wall like a spider monkey. "
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    09/08/09

    @Elhigh: ***"he went up that wall like a spider monkey."***

    Now, was the guy just using a metaphor, or did he actually test his wall out with various beasts of the field in order to know how they'd fare?
    "YOUR kid did GREAT! He went up that wall like a Pygmy Mouse Lemur!" Or: "I'm sorry, ma'am, but your boy went up that wall like a Plains Bison."
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    09/08/09

    @Elhigh: Yeah, I don't buy the horse one either... were there any horse tail-hair remnants snagged in the grille? I think we might have to call in Horatio Caine on that one.

    CAINE: "So... you say the perp is a horse, is he?"
    RENTAL CUSTOMER: "Yes - yes sir, that's right... horse came right up here & just sat on the hood."
    CAINE: "Did he, now?" (dramatically pulling off sunglasses)
    CUSTOMER: "Yep, sure did."
    CAINE: You know.......... There are two ways this goes down, and either way, you're dropping the gun."
    CUSTOMER: "Wha...? I'm standin' right in front of you - I ain't got no gu..."
    CAINE: "Well, well, what have we here? Is this a piece of hair caught in your grille?"
    CUSTOMER: "Uhhh.... I dunno."
    CAINE: "I think.... it.... may be... well, Mr. Jones, maybe you're NOT detouring us into the land of make-believe... you may be telling the truth, after all."
    CUSTOMER: "I am, I am!"
    CAINE: "That's good, because you know what they say: 'You lie down with the Devil, you wake up in Hell'."
    CUSTOMER: "Hey now, I ain't lyin' down with..."
    CAINE: "Alright everybody, be on the lookout for an Eastern European horse with reddish hair, bad teeth, and who may have access to an ape."
    CUSTOMER: "Holy crap - you can tell all that from just that one hair?"
    CAINE: (replaces sunglasses) "It only takes one."
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    09/08/09

    In reply to Eight Real Excuses Given To Rental Car Companies
    "I was moving it across the street, I looked up and I saw Woody Allen and I got all distracted."
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    09/08/09

    In reply to Eight Real Excuses Given To Rental Car Companies
    Rental Guy: What the hell happened?

    Driver: Road-head.
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    Image of SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R) SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R)
    09/08/09

    In reply to Eight Real Excuses Given To Rental Car Companies
    I almost lost a rental car in Vegas once. The garages behind the casinos are huge and I was just about to lose my mind and seriously started to think that it may have been it stolen when I finally found it. grrrr. damn generic rental car.
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    I said, "aw, yeah..." promoted this comment SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R) was starred SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R) was unstarred
    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    09/08/09

    @SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R):

    Let me guess, it was a white, mid-sized four-door sedan (Impala/Stratus/Taurus-esque).

    75% of all traffic in Lost Wages is rental cars driven by drunk tourists in a hurry to give away as much money as possible before their flight leaves.

    /living there tweaks your view of the place
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    Image of SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R) SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R)
    09/08/09

    @I said, aw, yeah...: close but I'm cheaper than that. I think it was a gold/beige 4 door Hyundai or something like it. And yes, the alcohol didn't help my memory of where the hell I parked and what the hell was I driving.\

    I can't imagine living there. It's nuts. Fascinating, but nuts.
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