Personal Finance Advice and Commentary

Renting a car for an hour or two just got easier now that Avis Budget is buying Zipcar.

New legislation would make it illegal for car rental companies to rent or sell recalled cars until repairs are completed.

I received an email this week from a rental car industry insider asking me if I had any figures on the percentage of late-model used cars that were originally owned by rental companies. I didn’t have up-to-date numbers for her, but we did eventually get into an interesting discussion about the merits of buying used-cars

Gary Stoller at USA Today has a pretty interesting article this week on the price of rental car gasoline. As you probably know, when you return a rental car with a tank that’s not totally full, the rental car company refills the tank, charging you an inflated price for the gas they use. What you