If rental cars could write, their automotive autobiographies would make for sad reading. After all, they’re the lowest form of automotive steel life, ranked somewhere between Chinese jalopies and scrapyard sheet metal.
Poor rental cars are mere transport for hirers, who tend to drive them with disdain. Cheap rental cars are mere numbers in a database for fleet operators, who regard them as commodities to be used and abused, and then quietly replaced by newer vehicles in due course.