Archived:Car

Describe Car here.

Car is big enough to contain seven (?) people

Cars that seat seven people often have limited boot space. We may need to consider hiring a roof-box with the car. The car-hire people may need to know this when we book.

There are some nine-seaters available; m³/£ will need to be considered when deciding between these and seven-seaters.

Attributes of car should be known that we might plan ahead.

• GPS
  • My telephone has GPS. I would suggest a proper mapbook might be a better idea
  • I have a road atlas of Europe that might be of at least some use, but it'll be out of date wrt Yugoslavia and it almost certainly doesn't cover Turkey. -Smith
• mp3 player jack

Also minor details like where who we're going to hire it from, where we're going to pick it up/leave it, and how much it will cost.

Here might be a good place to mention that Abroad has different driving rules and customs, and perhaps even list some relevant ones. e.g.

• In France we must have a reflective jacket and traffic cone in the car.
• In Albania, road rage incidents frequently involve fire-arms.
• For Turkey at least, we require an international insurance Green Card. letsgoturkey.org adds, slightly menacingly, that same must be valid "for the whole of Turkey".

etc. etc.

So who are we going to hire it from?

• Avis? No
• Hertz? No
• EuroCar? No international rentals in south east Europe
• AutoEurope?
• DriveAway.com.au was encouraging in terms of what international-fu it would permit, but its website was uncooperative when I came to investigate further. Am awaiting response to my email query - Smith
• Sixt? No, though note they're more liberal than many.
• Budget?