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Rental Car Question
"Hatunen" wrote in message ... On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:55:00 -0700, SMS wrote: On 24/03/10 8:52 PM, AE Todd wrote: A few months ago, I rented a car through Dollar. The level was mid- size, and the car was the Mazda 6, "or similar." What they gave me was a Toyota Corolla. It seems that in the rental car world, car size is a very malleable issue. But when I go to Wikipedia, the Toyota is a compact/sub compact, while the Mazda 6 is a mid-size. Why do the agencies get away with not giving you what you reserve? How do they get away with making a person reserve at a higher price, then giving a smaller vehicle, then claiming that a reservation is only a request? In the rental car world, the Corolla _is_ a mid-size. Not just at Dollar, with all agencies. Bump up the size it actually is by one level and you have the size that agencies use. It's like a 12 cup coffee maker that makes 60 ounces. The coffee maker industry has defined a cup as 5 ounces. I believe the definition is 5 1/3 ounces and always has been. That's six cups per quart (American). In food preparation, a cup is still a cup: "a unit of capacity, equal to 8 fluid ounces (237 milliliters) or 16 tablespoons; half-pint." |
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