SUV Subtraction
In time for ski season, some rental-car companies are offering modestly sized special deals on SUVs.
Avis, for example, is offering a $50 discount and free ski racks on weekly rentals of SUVs (and $20 off the weekend rate), while Budget is offering up to $20 off on weekends, with free ski racks as well. Alamo has an online-only deal that cuts $50 off a weekly SUV rate and $15 off three-day weekend SUV rentals at cities including Aspen, Colo.; Bozeman, Mont. (near the Big Sky ski resort); and Sacramento, Calif., west of the Lake Tahoe ski area.
With the winter deals, some of the car companies are trying to entice customers to trade up to a higher-price vehicle: For the typical SUV, costs range roughly from $30 to $100 a day, compared with around half that for a compact car, analysts say. Few customers actually reserve SUVs, says Mike Kane of VRCG Inc., a consulting company in Southfield, Mich., so the up-selling is generally done through discounts and upgrades at the counter. SUV renters don't tend to be scared off by high fuel costs from the vehicles' low fuel efficiency, he adds.
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Housekeeping notes
* The T-Shirts arrived - they look fine and all the sizes are correct
* I will look into rental cars ; I think we can get by with a small i.e. cheap one
* The final installment of $3500 was mailed to the Snowmass homeowner today (12/12)
* Please remit payment if you have not already done so
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Completely unrelated, but John Tan pointed out this vital information about 80's icon, Mr T.
http://www.4q.cc/t/index.php?topthirty
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