RE: renting cars in Italy

["Nick Koleszar" <npk@domain.elided>]

I think it's largely due to the level of theft from, and of, motorcars in
Italy.

nk

> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:59:37 EDT
> From: Pottree@domain.elided
> Subject: renting cars in Italy
>
> In a message dated 10/18/2002 1:01:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:
>
>
> > As recently as 1998 (pre-Euro), prices also varied wildly from one EU
> > country to another.  Renting a car in Spain, for example, cost half
> > as much as renting exactly the same car in Italy, and about 50% less
> > than renting it in France.
> >
>
> For reasons too humorous to mention, renting a car in Italy is still more
> expensive than in France, or possibly any other W. European
> country.  Whether
> this is a tax issue, has to do with the perceived risk on Italian
> roads, or
> what, I don't know.  But, there is an Italian premium and you have to pay
> extra if you are going to take a car rented elsewhere into Italy,
> as we did
> last year.
>
> Charlie
> LA, CA, USA
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