Hertz to start renting Vipers

[Chrissss]

http://www.thestreet.com/story/1197...nt-your-dream-car.html?puc=yahoo&cm_ven=YAHOO

 

[PeterMJ]

This is rather odd considering rental cars tend to be automatics, including Corvettes ZHZ that came only in auto. Hopefully this will not be like with ZHZ which certainly did not help with values of used Corvettes.

 

[uvbnbit]

Start buying stock in Scharf's

 

[ScrewDrvr]

ditches beware

 

[daytonprowler]

Start buying stock in Scharf's

 

[Green viper 1]

I will be able to buy a salvage gen v after all

 

[Timnineside]

All these comments are hilarious.

 

[2006red/whitecoupe]

Start buying stock in Scharf's

Your right, he alone may drop the unemployment rate in Wisconsin. Hertz may require that all computer aids be turned on or somehow prevent them from being turned off.

 

[Timnineside]

3,000 RPM rev limiters lol.

 

[tbsviper]

Hertz, gosh that hurts. Seems dumb to me but time will tell.

 

[Flexx91]

If that's the case, then I'm going to buy out the remaining stock of OE clutch assemblies and will sell them at 300% markup.

 

[Fatboy 18]

Rent it on a Friday Race it on Saturday Remember those Mustangs! Wonder if the Gen5 s will get a Hertz colour scheme? Black Gold stripes?

 

[TrackAire]

Do you think it's possible to swap a Gen 5 motor into a Gen 4 Viper and vice a versa in one weekend?.....


Enterprise Rental car has an exotic car division that I've used in the past and they had some high hp cars available but all with paddle shifters.....didn't seem to be too much of an issue but they do verify that your personal car insurance is capable of covering any "issues".

Cheers,
George

 

[Indy]

And for the real sports car enthusiast, it must be noted that all of the cars in Hertz's Dream Car collection are automatic transmissions -- no standards available.

Says so in the article....maybe they will be building specialty Vipers with Automatic/Semimanual Gearboxes.....could be a nice way of testing its effectiveness for long term use if this is the case.

 

[PeterMJ]

I shan't buy another Viper if they start making automatics, there is already Corvette to cover this part.

 

[chorps]

Once you book a Viper from Hertz, you'll get an email notice from Chrysler telling when your rental car has gone into "Production Scheduled" status.

 

[Fatboy 18]

Once you book a Viper from Hertz, you'll get an email notice from Chrysler telling when your rental car has gone into "Production Scheduled" status.

 

[gb66gth]

Good, then I can have a matched set with my '66.

 

[gb66gth]

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Lulubelle, my '66 Hertz Rent-a-Racer

 

[Fatboy 18]

Well I did see this in 2009 on the Greek island of Crete Sadly no Vipers were available for hire, but I did ask!

 

[VIPER GTSR 91]

I will be able to buy a salvage gen v after all

Oh you will NOT have to wait for a renter to get a salvage car. There are many new Viper owners each year that never even make it home without destroying their new toy the day they buy it.

 

[Camfab]

With a rental rate starting at $1,500 - $2,700 per day I'm sure the collision rate will be minimized. Not exactly the rent a racer rates of the past.

 

[Jeffsss]

I rented a '96 in Vegas way back in like '00. fake ID's and all. man that was fun and man was I young a dumb.

 

[Sainthitch]

There are a bunch of companies that rent high end exotics all the time. This is no different-its just a bigger company doing it and they are only putting it at selective locations...35 across NA to start. i highly doubt this will have any impact on the market of SRT Vipers, Ferrari's, tesla, etc...

 

[King_]

someone photoshop a gen v hertz edition lol

 

[pure zen]

Friend of our's owns a Corvette rental store [all automatics] and has tried a few Vipers to rent over the years. Nearly always the Vipers were returned with bent or bruised wheels from bouncing off the curbs, so the down time away for repair ate into future $499 rental days. The decision was made to forego using Vipers to rent.

 

[Jay M]

On our Honeymoon in Maui back in '96 I rented a Viper for 24 hours. Back then, no car had traction control, you were just expected to know how to drive.

That said, when I got it sideways on a patch of ice on the top of Haleakala crater it scared the crap out of my wife. When I told my new bride not to worry, I did it on purpose, I almost ended up divorced on my honeymoon!

Now, nearly 18 years later, whenever I get aggressive in the recently acquired Viper, I get "the look".

~Jay

 

[ViperSmith]

$1,500 a day rental and $10,000 deductible if crashed, I think Hertz will be ok

 

[dester243]

I was in vegas a couple years ago and my wife and I were walking up and down the strip.

We walked past a place that rented exotics and the guy out front sees me slowing down to eyeball the yellow 03 vert they had out front. He looks at my wife and says "I bet you guys never drove a car like this before! Come in so we can rent it to you for the day"

My wife looks back and him and says "We have a red one at home and I don't even want to go for a ride, what makes you think we'd pay to drive yours?"

I laughed a little inside.

 

[Green viper 1]

Oh you will NOT have to wait for a renter to get a salvage car. There are many new Viper owners each year that never even make it home without destroying their new toy the day they buy it.

I'm waiting patiently only this one will be really expensive to fix