Rent or drive your own car for long trip

Long trip: rent a car or drive your own?

  • Rent

    Votes: 5 33.3%

  • Drive your own

    Votes: 10 66.7%
  • Total voters
    15
  • Poll closed .
rockford33

rockford33

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Just curious what other people usually do. For a long trip (less than a plane ride, maybe 9-10 hours by car), I usually prefer to rent a car to save wear and tear on my wife's car (mine would be too small for that long of a trip :D) and the extra miles and depreciation. She is in outside sales, so she drives a lot already (6500 miles in the past 3-1/2 months). She doesn't understand why I like to rent a car for these long trips (next trip will be about 1200 miles roundtrip, not including any driving once we get there).

So, what do you guys do?
 
I like to rent a vehicle when I go on a long excursion :drive:. For the simple fact that if it breaks down...:( I don't have to come out of pocket to fix it or get it towed back home. :D
 
I have taken both approaches, for our annual trek to CO. Certainly benefits and drawbacks to both approaches.
 
drive my own haha

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before my 2000mile road trip
 
Not sure if any of you guys watch Top Gear but they did a great challenge once where they drove across four states to determine whether it would be cheaper to rent a car, or buy one and then try to sell it at the end of the trip.
 
Stephan said:
Not sure if any of you guys watch Top Gear but they did a great challenge once where they drove across four states to determine whether it would be cheaper to rent a car, or buy one and then try to sell it at the end of the trip.
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Don't leave us hangin' Stephan. What was the outcome and how did they go about measuring their conclusions? :)
 
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