Hertz Will Rent You An Ineos Grenadier If You Felt Your Vacation Was Too Comfortable

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Have you ever been readying a picnic and thought that your travel was shaping up to beryllium acold excessively comfortable and relaxing, each while nan rental car you had group up was a spot boring? Well, Hertz has nan solution for you. This spring, it's introducing nan Ineos Grenadier to its fleet of rental vehicles astatine prime airports crossed nan country.

It's difficult to cognize precisely why personification connected picnic would want a Grenadier. It's not precisely quiet, comfortable, inexpensive aliases bully to thrust — nan benignant of things astir group look for successful their rental car. I've gotta presume it's aimed astatine nan benignant of personification who would usually outpouring for a Jeep Wrangler, but they've sewage a fewer other bucks burning a spread successful their pocket. I can't opportunity for certain, but I tin opportunity that a batch of unaware group are astir to go incredibly acquainted pinch nan limitations and quirks of recirculating shot steering. I'm judge your mean Hertz customer will emotion that.

Of course, this isn't nan first off-the-wall conveyance Hertz has offered up for rent astatine its facilities. It's rented C2 Corvettes, Shelby GT350 Mustangs, Corvette Stingrays, Hendricks-modified Camaros, Ford Focus and Fiesta STs, nan Nissan GT-R and moreover supercars from Ferrari, McLaren, Lamborghini and Lotus, according to Road & Track. It's nary alien to this benignant of thing, but obviously, its breadstuff and food is base-spec Nissan Rogues and Chevy Malibus.

"At Hertz, we're focused connected offering nan newest and astir breathtaking vehicles successful nan manufacture and giving customers entree to modern, precocious value rental options," Adnan Manzur, Hertz's SVP of North American Customer Operations, said successful a statement.

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I'm not judge really bully a rental car nan Grenadier will make. While it looks for illustration a reasonably accepted (albeit boxy) SUV from nan outside, it's thing but that connected nan wrong and underneath. Unless you're personification who really knows what a Grenadier is, its wacky, body-on-frame driving characteristics and strange-to-say-the-least interior ergonomics mightiness put immoderate group off.

Still, Hertz seems undeterred.

"With nan summation of nan INEOS Grenadier, we're continuing to broaden customer prime and bespeak travelers' evolving preferences for unique, premium driving experiences that make nan travel conscionable arsenic memorable arsenic nan destination," Manzur said.

Yeah, of course, they look cool arsenic hell, and they're incredibly capable, but I deliberation a batch of renters are going to deliberation it'll thrust likewise to a Bronco, Wrangler aliases moreover a Defender, erstwhile that's simply not nan case. Maybe renters won't care, but I consciousness for illustration I mightiness if I were shelling retired a batch of money for 1 of these and wasn't wholly judge what I was getting myself into. Though I suppose that would beryllium connected nan renter for not doing their research. The Grenadier mightiness transportation a premium value tag, and it mightiness connection premium off-road capabilities, but I don't deliberation it gives nan "premium driving experience" Manzur is referring to here.

Eh, astatine slightest it's much absorbing than a Nissan Rogue.