Reply to: Exotic car hire - Any recommendations?

[SimonMac]

Any idiot can have a lambo (see LM's thread), go for the e-type

[ladymuck]

Insurance included but there is a £5000 bond payable up front and refunded on return assuming you haven't trashed it.

Yes, that's shown on the price list. If you can time it right, you can chuck that on a credit card and have it refunded before it has to be paid.

[DaveB]

There are plenty of reputable classic car hirers out there if that's more to your liking.

Maso

They used bespokes.co.uk

Apparently covid has hit them quite hard and they may have sold off a load of their stock but worth checking them out.

600 quids/day for a sports car. I wonder how much will be the insurance on the top of that.

Insurance included but there is a £5000 bond payable up front and refunded on return assuming you haven't trashed it.

[DaveB]

There are plenty of reputable classic car hirers out there if that's more to your liking.

Maso

They used bespokes.co.uk

Apparently covid has hit them quite hard and they may have sold off a load of their stock but worth checking them out.

Cheers both, will give them a call.

And they have sold the Maserati due to downsizing during covid. Bugger., Back to the drawing board.

[ladymuck]

600 quids/day for a sports car. I wonder how much will be the insurance on the top of that.

Here's the price list

https://bespokes.co.uk/prices/

[Andy2]

There are plenty of reputable classic car hirers out there if that's more to your liking.

Maso

600 quids/day for a sports car. I wonder how much will be the insurance on the top of that.

[DaveB]

There are plenty of reputable classic car hirers out there if that's more to your liking.

Maso

They used bespokes.co.uk

Apparently covid has hit them quite hard and they may have sold off a load of their stock but worth checking them out.

Cheers both, will give them a call.

[ladymuck]

It's Bespoke in the link I posted

I didn't hover over the random 'maso' word to see the link. It wasn't at all clear what you were recommending or else I'd have done a +1

So that's two votes for bespokes then.

[NigelJK]

It's Bespoke in the link I posted

[ladymuck]

Friends of mine recently hired a Maclaren for a weekend. I'll ping them to find out who they got it from.

They used bespokes.co.uk

Apparently covid has hit them quite hard and they may have sold off a load of their stock but worth checking them out.

[NigelJK]

There are plenty of reputable classic car hirers out there if that's more to your liking.

Maso

[ladymuck]

Friends of mine recently hired a Maclaren for a weekend. I'll ping them to find out who they got it from.

[Paddy]

When I was at college, a group of us were having lunch opposite a garage that had an American Mustang for sale. I bet that I could go over to the garage and get a free ride. I wondered around the cars and the salesman asked is there anything in particular you like. I answered no but I have been looking for a Dodge Challenger. He said why don't you try the Mustang. I reluctantly agreed and left the garage in the Mustang with rear wheel spining much to the amazement of the other students.

[northernladuk]

That reminded me of the one year old Merc i once bought that had been leased to one of these shady rental firms, got it for almost half of the new list price.
They had fitted it with a clocking chip inside/behind the odometer to avoid paying the mileage excess when it came close to hitting the lease mileage allowance, the chip seemed to be designed to reduce the mileage count, eg every 10 miles driven was recorded as 5 miles..
Luckily the odometer was only clocked by 2000 miles. The main engine computer was still recording the correct mileage.
They hadn't bothered to take the chip out before they gave it back to Mercedes who were the lease owner.
I only noticed something was up when the rev counter in the odometer unit was acting weird. Although the warranty didn't cover a clocked odometer. The dealer still replaced it as they had ordered a new unit without taking the old one out and fully inspecting it.

[Fraidycat]

Some of them look like outright crooks.

That reminded me of the one year old Merc i once bought that had been leased to one of these shady rental firms, got it for almost half of the new list price.
They had fitted it with a clocking chip inside/behind the odometer to avoid paying the mileage excess when it came close to hitting the lease mileage allowance, the chip seemed to be designed to reduce the mileage count, eg every 10 miles driven was recorded as 5 miles..
Luckily the odometer was only clocked by 2000 miles. The main engine computer was still recording the correct mileage.
They hadn't bothered to take the chip out before they gave it back to Mercedes who were the lease owner.
I only noticed something was up when the rev counter in the odometer unit was acting weird. Although the warranty didn't cover a clocked odometer. The dealer still replaced it as they had ordered a new unit without taking the old one out and fully inspecting it.