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Hertz To Compete With Zipcar For Hourly Car Rentals

Hertz is rolling out an hourly rental car service like Zipcar's called "Connect," starting in New York City, Park Ridge, N.J, London and Paris. Best of all, no dealing with counter staff. [NYT] (Photo: Marike79)

10:25 AM on Wed Dec 17 2008, by Ben Popken, 3,852 views, 35 comments

Zipcar's merger with Flexcar isn't going very well in Seattle where the company's brilliant first step has been to piss off most of their new customers by unexpectedly denying them access to cars during the long weekend. [The Stranger] (Thanks,...

1:10 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008, by Meg Marco, 1,291 views, 28 comments

Zipcar Launches iPhone App With Magical Car Unlocking Powers

The San Fran/NY-servicing Zipcar car sharing service has finally launched their iPhone app. Besides the expected seamless reservation system, it has a pretty sweet extra feature: It turns your iPhone into a keyfob capable of locking and unlocking...

11:00 AM on Wed Sep 30 2009, by Ben Popken, 4,946 views, 45 comments

Yellow Light At The Intersection Of Zipcar And Local Government

It's over between Warren and Zipcar. He's had a lot of little annoyances with their service, but the last straw was when they automatically charged him for a moving violation ticket, plus their own administrative fee, when he had already gone to...

8:00 AM on Sun Aug 16 2009, by Laura Northrup, 17,430 views, 103 comments

Queens Zipcar Runs Out Of Zip For Second Consumerist Reader

Well, isn't this a coincidence? Yesterday, we posted a story about the experience that Jen and her friend had with their Zipcar rental car with a faulty electrical system, which broke down three times and nearly left them stranded on the mean...

8:15 AM on Wed Aug 19 2009, by Laura Northrup, 10,300 views, 64 comments

Zipcar Apologizes For Terrible Experience

Jen, who was left stranded in another city recently when her Zipcar lost its zip, managed to get through to the New York area general manager for Zipcar this morning:

5:48 PM on Wed Aug 19 2009, by Chris Walters, 11,742 views, 33 comments

Zipcar Drops XM

To be perfectly clear, this has nothing to do with the recent Opie and Anthony dust-up. That being said, it suddenly seemed relevant to the future of satellite radio, so we thought we'd post the news. Again, they already canceled. It's not over...

12:59 PM on Fri May 18 2007, by Meg Marco, 1,090 views, 13 comments

Zipcar Ceases To Zip For Temporarily Stranded Customer

We've always heard good things about Zipcar—the biggest complaint from friends here in NYC is that reserving one in the summer requires a lot of patience. Jen and her friend, however, just had an experience that was so bad that Jen finally...

9:20 PM on Tue Aug 18 2009, by Chris Walters, 13,394 views, 120 comments

Morning Deals

Zipcar: Free ZipCar Membership + $150 Driving Credit + loaded public transit passWoot: They're still wooting off like it ain't no thang.Meritline: 1W LED Adjustable Head Lamp for $6.40 + free shippingHighlights From DealhackBuy.com: Genius G-Pen 4...

8:57 AM on Fri Jun 20 2008, by Ben Popken, 838 views, 7 comments

The Mini Cooper In A Nutshell

I just drove a Minicooper. Here's my quick n' dirty review of the experience:

1:51 PM on Tue Jul 29 2008, by Ben Popken, 16,575 views, 103 comments