Subscribe RSS FeedYou know how rental car prices seem random? One week you can get a car for next to nothing, the next it’s $80 for one day… There are lots of known factors, but sometimes it just doesn’t make any sense.
Well, this weekend, we totally scored at Enterprise. Somehow, we reserved an economy car for $9 / day over the weekend from the Portland Airport (which is a SMOKING deal). When we got there, they offered upgrades, and they quoted some prices, I wasn’t interested. I said “Maybe on my birthday I’ll rent a beemer for a day.” He said “Would you pay $25 / day to rent a 328i now?” I worked hard to rein in my twicth response of “Yes” and pretended to think about it for a few seconds, asked Katrina, and then said “Yes”.
It was awesome! I was not a huge fan of BMW based on my very limited experience. But after driving one for a few days, my wife and I both agreed that it would be nice to have one. Amazing Seat Controls, customization of everything almost it seems. Like the ability to tell the computer that when I just tap the blinkers I want 3 flashes instead of one. The digital Cruise Control with the cool little spinner on the outside edge… I drove more with the cruise control lever then I did the gas pedal. The power, wow! What a breath of fresh air after driving a Prius. The climate control was pretty awesome. And OH! The automatic windshield wipers… Just push a button and they automatically wipe the windshield when it needs to be wiped. Even stopping for hours at a time if you drive out of the rain. Don’t know how it works, but it’s great!
The Nav system sucked though… Blech… It has some nice features but it’s ability to find where you want to go by address or name search was really really really lame…
Wow. That does sound like a nice deal. I only wish you could rent one with all three pedals (which I seriously doubt you got).
For real! Ours was missing the left pedal… It had the manual shift thing a lot of new cars have, but it isn’t the same…
The traction control was nice though, you just point the car where you want it to go and hit the gas, regardless of conditions the car gets there. Unless your speed is too high, in which case the car doesn’t under or over steer, it just slides a little to the outside of the turn.