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...Orenthal James Simpson’s grace on the football field, good looks and charisma led to a successful career as a pitchman for Hertz rental cars and as an actor in films such as The Towering Inferno and The...
...“We’ve noticed a significant trend towards travellers opting for luxury vans over traditional sedan cars,” says Tom Ripert, CEO of Rolzo, a private chauffeur and premium car-rental service....
...A strong dollar does not appear to be deterring European travellers from booking rental cars in the US through the holiday season, according to Hertz....
...Until then, you can reach Sid and I at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. Happy reading!...
...India’s biggest start-ups are turning thrifty amid a new reality in which capital has become hard to come by....
...Christopher Grimes reports....
...car rates and used car prices....
...Fontainebleau Climbs guidebook, v-publishing.co.uk....
...But prices for used cars have slumped as car dealerships and other rental car companies rushed to sell their inventory....
...We get in my car and he directs me along a long gravel track behind the camp to where the clear waters of the Coachella Canal flow fast through a V-shaped concrete channel, water destined for the swimming...
...The credit rating agency Fitch reported this week that the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by Hertz, the car rental company, had taken this year’s tally of term-loan defaults to $34.1bn, or more than four times...
...Business groups and think-tanks are making a mistake to cast Uber v London as a totemic fight to preserve capitalism....
...And GTA V’s publisher Rockstar has a history of delaying titles in the name of quality; GTA V, Red Dead Redemption, RDR2, Max Payne and L.A. Noire were all delayed....
...The V-shaped recovery in consumer spending feels too bullish in our view....
...Clown car maker Aston Martin needs more money....
...Last October, Experian started to add housing rental records to its database. So far, it has details of 1.5m housing association and local authority tenants....
...Our downgrade is driven largely by lingering uncertainty about the appetite of the UK car buyer and the health of the retailer industry as a result....
...Hertz, whose car rental brands include Dollar and Thrifty, has seen increasing competition from the rise of car-booking apps like Uber and Juno....
...on the rental car canary in the coal mine — FT AlphavilleUber, the urban planner — FT Alphaville...
...Hertz and other car rental companies have seen rental car rates slip amid the rise of car-booking apps like Uber, Lyft and Juno, which also allow their customers to pool rides....
...Shares of Hertz — which operates rental brands including Dollar, Thrifty and its namesake Hertz — fell 8.5 per cent in after-hours trading on Monday following the results for the three months to the end...
...E&V is selling a two-bedroom restored villa with terrace near Corso Umberto for €580,000....
...Rental car companies have struggled to right their businesses as rental care rates have slipped amid the rise of ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft, which also let their customers pool their rides....
...“Structural issues with the car rental model remain.”...
...Investors had also soured on Hertz shares following its poor integration of Dollar Thrifty, the car rental company it acquired nearly 5 years ago, moving its headquarters from New Jersey to Florida and losing...
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