I remember the first time my friend suggested that I should buy a rental car, I honestly thought that he was a little crazy. We were talking about the fact that I wanted to sell my car and purchase a new vehicle, and as I was thinking out loud about the different places where I could go to shop for a car, my friend said that I should add a couple of the major rental car companies to the top of my list. I asked him if he was joking, and he said no, the major rental car companies actually offer really good deals on cars that are just two to four years old.
After I got over my initial surprise of hearing his suggestion, I started thinking that this actually sounded like a very logical idea. It made sense that because rental car companies add new vehicles to their fleet on a regular basis, they would want to sell their older vehicles (which were actually only a couple of years old). Additionally, because rental car companies spend a lot of time keeping their vehicles in tip-top shape, buyers are able to get vehicles that have been kept in top mechanical shape.