24 hour V6S hire £180

[jetski jezz]

I know this forum is supposed to be for owners, but I also know that there are people like me out there who have joined because they're looking for a car.<div><br></div><div>Having just sold an Aston Martin Vantage roadster after buying it, and realising it wasn't the car for me, I'm really conscious that I wanted to test drive an F-type for more than just a brief period to get a real feel for the car.</div><div><br></div><div>I was really surprised to find that the hire company, Avis have the V6S convertible available, and that the price wasn't in my opinion overly expensive.</div><div> the bonus for me is that I'm doing this for myself, but it also happens to be my sons birthday, so picking him up from school in it as part of his birthday treat, so two boxes ticked.</div><div>It also unlimited mileage which is pretty rare for sports car rental.</div><div><br></div><div>The price seems to vary dependent on how far in advance you book it, I booked it just a couple of days ago. If I try to book it a week in advance, the pricing to jump up to about £300.</div><div><br></div><div>On a slightly separate note, they are also available through Sixt in Munich, it works out at around £700 for 5 days with around 1750 km of usable mileage which is easily enough to get round quite a few of the passes in the Alps.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>

 

[ajbh]

Yep I used Avis when we were looking, the Kensington branch are really nice, actually a small independent hire firm underneath (milesandmiles), lovely people.<br /><br />Thanks for the tip on Munich, maybe I can get some friends to join me in the Alps this summer <edited><editID>ajbh</editID><editDate>2016-05-22 18:25:58</editDate></edited>

 

[captainham]

I also used the Kensington branch (Avis Prestige), I blame them for loaning me their V6S Coupe for a trip to Scotland a couple of years back, and as a result I was forced to scrimp and save and then go and buy my own!

 

[ajbh]

Yep, me too. Jag really should pay them a commission

 

[daytona650]

Thats a really good price for a car of this calibre

 

[jetski jezz]

Well today's the day. It's my son's twelfth birthday, but I can't work out who is more excited him because of his birthday or me for the 24-hour extended rental test drive.<div>I'm picking the car up from Birmingham at midday then taking it home cross country. My wife is then taking it for a couple of hours and picking my son up from school.</div><div>I've got various friends coming over to be taken out for test drives this afternoon.</div><div>Tomorrow morning, bright and early and heading out through the Cotswolds working my way towards South Wales before heading back towards Birmingham by midday to return the car.</div><div><br></div><div>It looks like the weather is going to be perfect, so really looking forward to the drive.</div><div>I've been given the registration number now of the car, so I know I'm getting a V6S in black, which is as much as I really need to know.</div><div>After returning it tomorrow, I'm then going into my local dealer to have a test drive of a V8...... happy days.</div><div><br></div>

 

[steveh]

It's my wife's birthday today too, so a good day all round. Look forward to hearing your thoughts on the V6 and the V8.<br />Steve.

 

[ronniet]

Hope that you like the car and that you're lad enjoys his birthday and then you hopefully you'll decide to buy and join the club<br /><br />Every car has faults, ultimately we all live with them. The f type is worth getting and keeping

 

[jetski jezz]

Having a great day with it so far, thankfully the sun has been shining as well.<div>The more time I spend with it, the more I think I'm going to want the V8, I'm really keen to see how it sounds against the V8, particularly the overrun and whether it pops and bangs more on downshift.</div><div><br></div><div> So far, I'm getting pops and crackles on overrun, but not much when you downshift, I'm hoping the V8 will do that a bit more as that's really what I was expecting.</div><div><br></div><div>To be honest tomorrow morning will be my proper test, I'm taking it out on my own away from family and friends that all want to have a look and give it a real good drive on the sort of roadster I'm intending to use it which thankfully is all cross-country stuff, no motorways, no cities or towns just country roads.</div><div><br></div>

 

[daytona650]

Downshift and let go of the accelerator at the same time while in dynamic and exhaust switched on (while in S mode of course). I love it.

 

[mickjaguar]

It always seems to me that it learns how you are driving and adapts. So if you gun it and slow rapidly on a repeated basis it appears to up the level of snap crackle and pop. I tend to leave it to get on with it set in sport + dynamic, as it does a pretty good job of blipping down the gears and crackling etc and I can concentrate 100% on the road ahead. I had a friend, who has been in the car, follow behind a couple of weeks ago who commented that it's much much louder from behind than when in the car and completely awesome, as lift off is followed by right load of crackling and the next stamp on the throttle throws out a bang and a spit of flame. After 7 months of it being my daily driver to work I still think it's absolutely brilliant, sensible quiet and comfortable when you want it to be and bonkers mad fun at the flick of a switch. All this with similar running costs to a mainstream ordinary car.

 

[ajbh]

It does mick, there is a bit in the manual about it, it's always a total fruitloop when I get it back off my husband!

 

[roocarl]

Good to meet you today Jetski Jez thanks for popping into my workshop <div> Lovely Ferrari and good luck with your F type Hunt V6 or V8 I think you might get the later though ;-) think of the sound .....!!<div><br><div>Jez seems like a thoroughly nice Bloke if anyone thinking of selling their F type I am sure he would be a pleasure to deal with .</div><div><br></div></div></div>

 

[jetski jezz]

I just finished my extended test drive/hire of the V6S. Full marks to Avis Birmingham, they were polite courteous and prompt. They showed me round the car and explain some of the features. I was supposed to be back by 12 noon the next day, but the manager said it really wouldn't matter if I ran over by an hour or more which I thought was very generous.<div><br></div><div>I got up at the crack of dawn this morning and was in the car and down the road by 6 AM which gave me chance to have a really good run across country with minimal traffic for the first hour or so. I'm based in North Oxfordshire and ran straight across the Cotswolds having a quick break at Chepstow before then heading off into the edges of south Wales and then by late morning heading back into the Cotswolds before diverging back to Birmingham to return the car.</div><div><br></div><div>My overall impressions of the car were fantastic, it felt light and nimble, I thought the gearbox was more than responsive enough and I didn't at the time feel it was underpowered in anyway.</div><div>I did almost all of the miles with the dynamic setting on and paddle shift all the way. I ran just a couple of miles of motorway, but the rest was all A and B Roads.</div><div><br></div><div>After returning the car, I then had a 20 minute test drive of a 2014 V8S convertible to do a sort of back to back comparison.</div><div>I was blown away by the V8, I started to test-drive telling the salesman that I felt the V6 was not underpowered, but after a couple of miles in the V8 it was clear at least to me that the V8 was quite a big step up.</div><div>One thing that became apparent was that there was less need to switch to dynamic mode with the V8, although this one did have the active sport switch so running it in sport/paddle mode but not dynamic with the switch activated to me seemed the good middle ground. Dynamic mode seem just a little bit too intense.</div><div><br></div>

 

[dave_Sw1]

I hired one from that place in Kensington as per above, Avis subcontract to MilesandMiles and if you go to them direct its cheaper - but renting one ended up costing me the best part of 90k - as I then had to buy a V8!!!<div><br></div>