My HERTZ Upgrade !!!

csv8 · 09-11-2007, 04:15 PM

The missus and I recently went to Perth. A few weeks prior we had booked a Camry. But when we went to pick up the car, HERTZ said "sorry no CAMRY'S left' but you can have an XR6 at no extra cost. Is that allright ?" is the Pope a catholic ? anyone else had an upgrade at no extra cost??

alstar5 · 09-11-2007, 04:16 PM

Hah, that's alright. Brand new?

csv8 · 09-11-2007, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by alstar5

Hah, that's alright. Brand new?

Yes sept build 2007

EA2BA · 09-11-2007, 04:21 PM

Was supposed to get a falcon once, got a top of the line maxima instead, it was an upgrade, downgrade in my book, front wheel drive pfffft.

Martyvan · 09-11-2007, 04:24 PM

Last time i was in Ireland, i had a GRoup B car... Fiesta or similar... and i ended up with d Diesel VW Passat.... Couldnt have asked for a better upgrade... Same economy as the Petrol Fiesta, BUT, soo much more room

Was with Hertz as well....

Wardo · 09-11-2007, 04:41 PM

Years ago the boss had a Camry booked but ended up with a Merc E280. Made the interstate trip just that little bit better.

DJR David · 09-11-2007, 04:50 PM

About 8 years ago booked a ford escort in Canada for $42 a day for a week. Arrived at the desk, '"sorry all gone"'. Demanded a car at original quote price. Got a brand new Vovlo V70. Wonderful car
from hertz as well from memory

DirtyHarry · 09-11-2007, 04:56 PM

I rent cars fairly regularly. Hertz have always done the right thing by me and their prices are generally better than the other big rental firms.

zetec · 09-11-2007, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by EA2BA

Was supposed to get a falcon once, got a top of the line maxima instead, it was an upgrade, downgrade in my book, front wheel drive pfffft.

Spoken by a true RWD bogan... as owner of a 20 year old car, you should know better than slagging off something like that when the truth is it'd run rings around your EA on 3 wheels.

**Polyal** · 09-11-2007, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by zetec

Spoken by a true RWD bogan... as owner of a 20 year old car, you should know better than slagging off something like that when the truth is it'd run rings around your EA on 3 wheels.

Settle down, the Maxima is nothing special. Id rather a XR6 for sure.

arm79 · 09-11-2007, 05:30 PM

The rental price difference between a Camry and a Falcon is like $3 or $4 a day. It would have been a no brainer for me when booking the thing in the first place, so its not much of a big upgrade.

And if you rent a Falcon, over 1/2 of Hertz's fleet are XR6's. So when you pickup the car, you politely ask "Can I swap it for an XR6 please". Easy done.

I haven't driven anything less than an XR6 on my last 10 work trips.

pommy b · 09-11-2007, 05:33 PM

Last time I booked a car with Budget, got upgraded from a Falcon to a Fairlane. Pretty nice

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Dave_au · 09-11-2007, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by csv8

" is the Pope a catholic ?

I'm pretty sure he's alledgedly a member of Hillsong and as rumor has it, will be a contestant in next year's Australian Idol.

(Joking..... I know - I'll get letters)

sfr rob · 09-11-2007, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by zetec

Spoken by a true RWD bogan... as owner of a 20 year old car, you should know better than slagging off something like that when the truth is it'd run rings around your EA on 3 wheels.

hahaha, i reckon!!

S3SR · 09-11-2007, 09:09 PM

yeah i got a free upgrade to a camry from a corolla from hertz .. accident rental car...

sad part was i asked for a falcon and got an aurion because they had none left :(

Scott · 09-11-2007, 09:27 PM

I spend 10 days a month in hire cars. The last 3 hires I have made with Hertz I booked XR6's and got Aurions. There is no comparison between an XR6 & an Aurion for handling - the XR6 just smashes them to pieces.

I'd be interested to see a heads up though, the Aurion would take the cake based on seat of the pants to 100. From a roll on ~80-100, there is no comparison, the XR6 will take the cake from the Aurion and eat it in front of the Corolla kids.

Back on track, with around 120 days a year hire, I seem to only get downgraded :(

flappist · 09-11-2007, 09:32 PM

On my 2006 trip to the FPV day I was upgraded from a XR6 to a statesman. Perfect car to visit FPV in

Bucknaked · 09-11-2007, 09:36 PM

I booked a commodore through AVIS in Melbourne. None left when I got there. They said they can get me a camry I think or they have a Saab turbo if I'd prefer the free upgrade. The choice was simple.

Brand new less than 500 k's on the clock. Leather and that new car smell. Pity I only had it for 2 days.

mean & green · 09-11-2007, 09:44 PM

booked a astra convertable for a week while on holidays got a saab turbo convertable instead very nice!!
and last week had a getz booked in tassie and got a corolla way better

both times avis

Go baby Go · 10-11-2007, 12:45 AM

Went to the US of A last year and flew into Greensboro , Nth Carolina *insert southern twang- BIG TIME*
Started sweet talking next thing you know our Laser morphed into a brand spanking new Mustang with 250 miles on the clock- just run in in my book :evil3: .........that weekend we caught up with Marcos Ambrose at Martinsville for his 1st truck race and he couldn't believe we had it.

when we were in L.A for extra $2 per day we went from a small compact car (again think it was Laser) to 4 mth old Jag. not quite free upgrade but bloody close.

Smoke Pursuit · 10-11-2007, 12:56 AM

Rofl its only a couple of dollars more to go from a Corolla to a Falco then from a Falcon to a Fairlane, i know which one id be getting the fairlane fore sure~~~~~~~~~

Shaggzy · 10-11-2007, 01:51 PM

when we flew up to wintersun last year we got there and they had no falcons left so we got a free upgrade to a brand new blue xr6 with only 5km on it when we picked it up!!!!

zetec · 10-11-2007, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Polyal

Settle down, the Maxima is nothing special. Id rather a XR6 for sure.

I wasn't referring to an XR6 (and have you noticed I do drive a BF XR8) so there's nothing against XR's or RWD... just his blind referral to FWD being crap - he can hardly compare!

Walkinshaw · 10-11-2007, 02:00 PM

XR6's = rental hacks. The only reason they get them over XT's is the resale value on them is higher by percentage

NC1183 · 10-11-2007, 02:03 PM

When i went away to tafe a fortnight ago, my retal agreement stated a camry or similar, turned up and there was a brand new 380 SerIII GT, sitting in the carpark nothing else, so i was happy

JC · 10-11-2007, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by csv8

The missus and I recently went to Perth. A few weeks prior we had booked a Camry. But when we went to pick up the car, HERTZ said "sorry no CAMRY'S left' but you can have an XR6 at no extra cost. Is that allright ?" is the Pope a catholic ? anyone else had an upgrade at no extra cost??

When I was in the states, we had booked a Taurus with GPS for 2 months. When we went to pick it up, they didn't have a Taurus with Neverlost (GPS), so we got Lincoln Town Car, 4.6l V8 auto, instead. That's like being upgraded from a Focus to a Fairlane Ghia. We were very happy!

Falcon_Crazy · 10-11-2007, 02:25 PM

Booked a Falcon got a brand New Fairlane Ghia - was a great few days; was with hertz. I almost cancelled my flights back from Melbourne s I could spend 10 more hours driving the 'Lane!

martO · 10-11-2007, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by flappist

On my 2006 trip to the FPV day I was upgraded from a XR6 to a statesman. Perfect car to visit FPV in

Haha thats quite funny .. considering on our way to FPV Day 07 we were upgraded from a falcon to a statesman too.

My dad went overseas earlier this year and was upgraded to an E class Merc. Quite a nice car, too bad overnight someone ripped off the merc badge !

**DJM83** · 10-11-2007, 05:00 PM

My mate had a camry when he was in QLD for work, it shat itself soon as he left the driveway so they gave him an XR6 for no extra cost (even though his work paid for it)

andrewts · 10-11-2007, 05:11 PM

Been upgraded from XR6s to 'Lane Ghia's before, with Hertz. Most of the XR6s are very new too, from Sydney airport.

AVIS upgraded us from a Holden Calais to a Hyundai Santa-Fe once. That was just the last straw for them. After getting very bad VZ Commodores with over 40,000 on the clock and paying more for them, he told them they could stick it. FWIW we managed to swap that Santa-Gay for a Nissan Murano, which was great.