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      11-29-2013, 05:37 PM   #1
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Summary: Payless suck, Budget are better, Mustangs are loud, 6MT rules (but not on a Mustang), and I'm very thankful for my M3. Happy Thanksgiving y'all!

So I went to Atlanta for Thanksgiving to visit family, and upon arrival discovered that Payless didn't have my car ready - or any car for that matter, as they were sold out the say before, and couldn't be bothered to tell me (even after I called the same morning just to be safe). My fault honestly, as I should have known that Payless is a pathetic excuse for a rental company, and is one breath away from bankruptcy... Start looking around, and what do you know, 10 rental agencies with zero cars available... Except a 6MT 2013 Mustang GT that nobody wanted to rent. So, for the price of the Nissan Micra (or similar, god forbid), I got a Mustang.

First, let me say that driving a DCT for the past few months made me really excited to do my own shifting. However, whomever designed the tranny on the mustang should be castrated! Clunky, slow, and tired! And on top of that, the shifter is just really poorly located, rendering the entire experience a real PITA!! I challenge you to pull of a decent downshift... Just pathetic! That being said, the power, the rumble... The sound... Wow! I need a new exhaust! Akra probably... I've had my mind set on an MPE for a while, but I can see myself wanting something with a little more oomph.

So happy to be home...
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      11-29-2013, 08:01 PM   #2
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Welcome back! Sounds like a terrible experience. No comparison to the M3 i am sure.


Still, must be better than the Jeep Compass I got in Detroit! Can't wait to get home.


Where is everyone else for thanksgiving? Any interesting rentals?
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How on earth did you score a 6MT Mustang rental? I just rented a Mustang vert from Budget and asked do you have one in MT? They laughed.
I was in shock... nobody wanted it!!! At least 20 people preferred to wait to see if something else shows up... Idiots!
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Welcome back! Sounds like a terrible experience. No comparison to the M3 i am sure.


Still, must be better than the Jeep Compass I got in Detroit! Can't wait to get home.


Where is everyone else for thanksgiving? Any interesting rentals?
I can't complain... But I enjoy it anyway...
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How awesome is it to be traveling during this holiday and the biggest problem you have is slumming it in a Mustang GT.

I can think of worse plights man. No regrets spending twice as much on an M3!!!
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How awesome is it to be traveling during this holiday and the biggest problem you have is slumming it in a Mustang GT.

I can think of worse plights man. No regrets spending twice as much on an M3!!!
So true! I am very thankful!
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How awesome is it to be traveling during this holiday and the biggest problem you have is slumming it in a Mustang GT.

I can think of worse plights man. No regrets spending twice as much on an M3!!!
probably falls in the same category.
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      11-30-2013, 01:32 PM   #8
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Payless and dollar rentals suck.. especially at the atl airport.

Enterprise is my fav.

Manual mustang as a rental is unheard of. Wonder how it got in the fleet?
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I was in shock... nobody wanted it!!! At least 20 people preferred to wait to see if something else shows up... Idiots!

Sadly, those 20 people probably didn't even know how to drive a manual.
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      11-30-2013, 06:38 PM   #10
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I was in shock... nobody wanted it!!! At least 20 people preferred to wait to see if something else shows up... Idiots!

Sadly, those 20 people probably didn't even know how to drive a manual.
I'm betting you're right... No other way to explain it!
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So did you drive it like you stole it?
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So did you drive it like you stole it?
Lol obviously! Like any rental it was actually pretty fun, all joking aside... Amazing power and sound, and you feel every bit of it at WOT redline, as well just pulling out of a parking lot...

Alas, not an M
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