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Does anyone know where to hire an XR6T or XR8 in Sydney?
My folks are visiting and my old man would like to hire an XR6T but I guess an XR8 would do if they are available. There seems to be everything else available from Porches to BMWs but no Fords.
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Wheel Wally
Join Date: Aug 2008
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I think avis does XR6's although I don't know if they are just XR6's or XR6T's
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everytime dad goes to sydney on work for 2 days he hires an XR6 NA BF through avis. he has to drive 2 hours to his works head office and the cost of a 2 day car hire is cheaper then a 1 way taxi trip plus you dont have some terrible cabbie out to kill you and you have the added bonus of the car in between. hes jagged a BF 1 XR8 in Vixen once but was told there was only a couple in the fleet. never been able to get a turbo
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Most of Thrifty and Hertz have switched to Toyota Aurions for that hire car category; the majority of Hertz's Ford stock are clapped out BFs; Thrifty have a couple of FGs but not many.
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over here in tassie just before christmas avis had about 80 + fg xr6's/g6e's i had to go and put all the bloody rego labels on them |
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lol, youl b lucky to get a V8 or a Turbo 6 'rent-a-car'
let me know if you can... im sure i can find somewhere to ahhh, test the strength of the tyres :P
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you'd have to look for a specialty rental company who will make you put down the deed to your house to rent the car.
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Shame - shouldn't really cost that much more and would be market (although niche) that is not really that well tapped.
Seems as though you can only hire rep mobiles or go pay stupid $ for something more exotic. Saw in Germany that you could hire a Boxster for Au$280 a day - though avis! (was going to but had too much luggage - C220 for $110!) |
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wonder how much they detune the porsche, and have little sensors in it to tell them when you speed ;)
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ok, I'll check Avis.
We hired an MX5 a few years ago to do a similar trip up to the central coast. This time I am going up to the Kurri Kurri Nostalgia Festival as it my dad's home town ![]()
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Sensors to tell when you speed? - the autobahn had no real speed limit!
(even at 170 kmh you had to keep an even eye in the rear vision mirror for something moving quick - you heard them first though) Avis was only really concerned if you took it to a country where you had no insurance cover. |
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I rented a BFII XR6 from Thrifty last year, with lovely 6 speed auto.
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unfortunately you'll find that if the main companies all rented out turbo's and v8's, there'd be the select bunch of people who would thrash the hell out of them, rendering them useless in a very short time.
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You can sometimes get an xr8 from Hertz but i think only if you are a "premium" customer, like very frequent renter. Not sure if you have to request quite a bit in advance though.
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i'd say just go for a G6E - bloke across the road works in melbourne mon-fri and comes up to see family on the weekends. he hires from Avis - usually a falcon(even though its a holden family) - had a G6E over the weekend, before that XR6's etc all FG's since they came out
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the G6E may be the way to go, as I noticed some on one of the sites
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Spotted a new FG XR6 today with a Thrifty Sticker on the back.
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Hope i can be indulged by taking this slightly off topic.
Have rented cars a few times from Avis at Hobart Airport. Last Xmas our experience with them was not very good. First they tried to give me a Falcon with a big dent in the drivers door. The car had been pre booked weeks earlier, so i did not quite understand her next statement regarding lack of available cars. When i refused - was offered a Mitsubishi 380. Near new and looked good. That will do. Loaded our bags in the boot and then climbed in. The car absolutely bloody reeked. It was a couple of days after New Years.Obviously somebody had puked in the car. Spent the next 4 days trying various different deodorises to cover the smell. By the time we took it back the smell had receded somewhat. Fast track to last week and we picked up a Toyota Aurion from Avis at Hobart Airport. The state of the interior was pitiful. The dash and the centre console had been wiped with a very dirty rag. Headed straight to Autobarn to buy some cleaning fluids and a cloth. The part that i find hard to understand about this is that i always treat rented cars with respect. Yesterday we spent our last hour cleaning the cars interior before returning it. Would normally wash the exterior as well - but i was a bit peeved about picking up a dirty car from them. Does anybody else have these problems with rental cars? Rocket. |
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we ended up with a calais :(
what a piece of crap it was! my ed XR6 has more grunt and better handling. the interior was stupidly plastic and not at all comfortable. my mum complained that her 940 volvo was much nicer lol
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Actually I've just had a "rental car experience".
Asked for a large auto sedan. Got a Nissan X-trail... I tell you what though, it would give the VZ company car (which is currently in the workshop - the reason I'm hiring a car) a run for it's money in a straight line. |
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