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Yeah it might be worth trying if there's no other option. You'll have to see if it's available in your area not sure if it is available everywhere. If you have a dealership nearby they may be able to arrange it through a vehicle or vehicles in their inventory. With the prices they charge they may be willing to accommodate special circumstances or special requests, may depend on which tier you choose. That being said Enterprise seems to be the most cost effective option. I did price out a 3 series equivalent so if you rented for an entire month at the daily rate Enterprise might cost more but they may have a weekly discount. The BMW program requires 1 month commitment. As far as switching cars you can do that with enterprise and you can drive other cars besides BMW.
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Enterprise sounds promising but (a) it doesn't make it easy to pick what car you want online, it's all this "x or similar" BS which would defeat the purpose, and (b) I am guessing most of them are stripper models without any options. In the G20 my biggest concern is whether or not the optional Sport Seats are comfortable, and I doubt they would be optioning cars with that. If there's a will ($$) there's probably a way, and I have no problem paying a couple grand to take 2-3 different models for a 1-2 months and see how they drive, but I think it's an unorthodox service / request so it might be hard to find a vendor that will fulfill. |
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11-05-2019, 06:22 PM | #25 |
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Also on their website they have 330i and 340i models with pictures of the previous generation while the website says "all models are current or previous year", so it really seems the project is not being maintained.
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I just checked the configurator and the ordering guide - sport seats are standard across the board.
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oh. maybe lumbar support isn't then. i dunno, i sat in a 330 at the dealership that did not have lumbar support i think. and if i get an M340 it will have that so i would want to make sure whatever car i rent has the same seat setup
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Yeah I'll have to call tomorrow and ask if they can get me a 2019 or newer 3 series. I doubt they're going to be able to tell me what options are on it though. |
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There customer service was really nice when I rented from them, but yeah they may not know the exact options and packages. They did pick me up in a Porsche Cayman or something like that and the girl was really nice. She was kinda into cars herself and of course she gets to see and drive all these cool cars so it's a cool gig so we talked about that. The other thing you should ask for is AAA discount.
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On the 330, not 100 sure but Lumbar is part of either the premium, convenience or exec packs. Unless they specd it without anything.. I don't know then.
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Sounds like you need to take a week long vacation to LA and rent someone's G20 out there...
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Lol seems like I don't have much of a choice. Kind of defeats the purpose of seeing how the car works for my daily life though. You wouldn't think it would be this difficult to rent a BMW 3 series given how common they are.
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Have you tried access by bmw? I would drop by the nearest dealership and see what they can do. If you go to LA to rent one you might be able to drive it back to Nashville and drop it off at a local enterprise so just a one way road trip.
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Don't think Access is in my area. I'm nowhere near Nashville
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Thought you said that's where you were or somehow it said it on the site itself like it got my location wrong when I pulled it up lol. Yeah so it seems flying out to LA and getting the car there then dropping it off somewhere near you would possibly work. Seems a lot of hoops to jump through for a 330 but maybe because they just came out that could be why.
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