CarRentals

When vacationers rent cars this summer for their adventures, they'll have to decide: Do they want the insurance the company is offering. It might be tempting to it pass up the extra fees, but whether or not you should is a something you should figure out long before you get to the counter.

You're paying $300 a month for your car, yet you use it no more than an hour or two a day. Is there some way to reduce your car costs and perhaps make some money from those idle hours? A new company, RelayRides, is trying to establish a business to do just that, using peer-to-peer renting. The...

Rental car rates became even more expensive this week as agencies nationwide grappled with the loss of scores of recently-recalled Toyotas now sitting in mechanics' garages waiting for retrofits. The dilemma prompted one of the country's largest agencies, Hertz, to say that it won't honor coupons...

Airfares may be reasonable, and gas prices aren't killing us the way they were a year ago, but there's one travel essential that's bleeding Americans: car rentals. The New York Times reports that compared to May 2008, the price for a rental car shot up by 73% last month. In June, they were up 63%...