By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

So is Hertz officially the coolest rental car company ever? It already rents Corvettes, and went as far as to have special edition Shelby GT-500 Mustangs produced specifically for its fleet. And now it’s Italian outposts are going to let people off the lot behind the wheel of an Elise or Exige? What? It’s like the company doesn’t understand what people do with rental cars. Obviously, it’d be cooler if these pocket rockets were going to be available stateside, but since either of these British roadsters would be welcome in my dream garage, I’ll forgive them. Read the fully press release after the jump. Hertz via Jalopnik.

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By Mike Musto

RideLust.com

Y’all are going to have to bear with me on this one cause it may be a long blog. I spent the last ten days driving across the continental United States on a scouting trip for the upcoming Mother Lode Road Rally which runs from May 15th to the 22nd of this year. We started in Chicago, IL and made our way west to our final destination of San Diego, CA some 3,100 miles later.

Obviously one immediate concern about driving across the United States in the dead of winter was the weather. We simply had no idea what the elements were going to bombard us with. So we set out to get the right vehicle for our journey west.

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