Hi Paul,
I actually
had done some more 'clicking about', but had given up on the Hertz website (hertz.com) itself after first enabling javascript and then still not getting full functinallity (they obviously don't want customers with conservative browser settings, which is fine by me).
Anyway I had found some names/models of cars in the "Green Collection" and those were all diesels.
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Originally Posted by paul m
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Well actually almost all cars I find (available in Rome) through that link are diesels too. With two exceptions: The Prius - which is a bit "hyped" in terms of env.friendlyness for my taste (not bad, but certainly not the god-like creature it's hyped to be), and secondly a Mercedes A-class that is listed as "Multi-Fuel" (period). No indication whatsoever about what fuels it will take and/or other technical aspects (google didn't readily come up with much useful info on Mercedes multifuel either (except for the DiesOtto which is an interesting concept but to my understanding (A) hardly multifuel and (B) can't imagine it'd be in A-class production cars as we speak).
The
real information that Hertz lists about all the cars offered in the Green Collection is virtually none, or nothing to go by if you want to form your own opinion/choice anyway.
But again, it's probably good that they at least
do give it some thought, even if in my opinion it's still driven more by 'look at us' Marketing Speak than anything else
P.S. I just realized that I'm probably being very negative, it's just that it always rubs me the wrong way when advertisers are trying to sell us stuff by hyping
non-information. In this case they only talk about CO2 and high mileage, which is bull-shit bingo considering that even a 1988 Peugeot 205 diesel (or such - small car, big diesel) would probably have delivered the "specs" they're boasting. Certainly the modern little turbo-diesels with intercooler and possibly computer controlled common rail injection etc etc will do just fine and be a "fair choice" when balancing practicality and environment issues but the
way they present it (only presenting the specs that sound good and hardly matter considering a diesel viz environment) just makes me ... well, uhhhm ...
