Places to rent sporty cars?

Carl Fisher · **Posted:** Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:18 am

A coworker and her boyfriend are coming out to the fall school but don't own a suitable vehicle. She's been looking at the rental situation, but has only been able to find places renting Mustangs. That'd be OK, but does anyone know a place (local to Raleigh) that has Miatas or Mazda 3s or Proteges?

Thanks!

Wes Eargle · **Joined:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:47 am **Posts:** 3683

Chances are that any rental car will be a slushbox instead of a manual. Miata.net lists only a couple of places that rent Miatas, and those are generally in either CA or FL.

Others are:

http://www.enterprise.com/car_rental/ch ... ansaction1

Neons (hahaha :wink:

), Grand Prix, etc.

https://www.hertz.com/gaq/index.jsp?tar ... atPage.jsp

Focus, Mustang etc.

Stephen Westerfield · **Posted:** Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:06 pm

"Someone" I know that went to go rent a car for one of our Rallycrosses went to enterprize (at the airport) to pick up thier car and they had a Mazda Protege wagon thingy on thier lot...not sure that you want a wagon though. However..in my experience, theywon't let you reserve a specific car. You make your reservation for a "Dodge Neon or similar" and then you can pick from whatever happens to be sitting there when you show up. And I have never seen a manual car at a rental place with the exception of the exotic car rental places in Vegas....

TomFreeman · **Posted:** Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:51 pm

I know that Dollar has rented manual transmission cars in the past. I was renting in DC for business, and they rented a manual V6 Mustang to the guy in front of me - they specifically asked if the guy could drive a stick...

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