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Here's the loophole behind AutoSlash's clever new approach to getting you the best deal on a rental car: Rental companies don't penalize you for canceling. That means AutoSlash can book you the best price it can find today -- and then keep looking for a better one.

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Another merger between car-rental companies -- in this case Hertz and Dollar-Thrifty -- may mark another wave of rental branch closings as the industry continues to consolidate. The good news? Prices probably won't go up -- for now.

Nonsmokers who travel often find themselves frustrated once they unlock the car they've just rented at the airport. After a few hours of lounges, gates, and airborne cabins mercifully free of secondhand smoke, travelers slide behind the wheel and wonder how nobody at the rental agency has noticed...

Back in June, consumers were puffed up with pride when Hertz announced it was ending its policy of overcharging customers for gas. If you returned the car without filling the tank all the way again, Hertz gave customers the option of pre-buying gas set according to the going rate at the pumps in...

I know that car rental companies are having a hard time with people driving less. Their stocks are falling. But their absolute warfare against their customers fought with ridiculous fees and soul-crushing hassles can't be helping. There's hope that the gas refueling charge will go away, but it...

When I went to book a rental car for a family vacation up to the Adirondacks yesterday, I was surprised to find SUVs renting for less than small cars. Last week ABC News had a story about how rental agencies were pressuring customers to take the SUVs off their lots. At an Avis in Manhattan, the...

I'm a cheapskate on moral principles. Even when I'm traveling on business and someone else is picking up most of the tab, I still like value. In the last five weeks, I've traveled in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, California, Michigan, and Massachusetts. I've stayed in Hiltons and Sheratons, Crowne...