Enterprise Rent A Car say that they are seeing an increase in people wishing to hire cars with them over the Thanksgiving holiday compared to the same time last year. Holiday makers are turning to the nation’s largest car hire firm to utilize vehicles for holiday excursions, to visit friends and family and to go on shopping trips.

Vice president of leisure business development for Enterprise, Steve Short said that this year people are turning to the car to make trips home over the holidays. He said that they were also coming to Enterprise for vehicles that will make their post Thanksgiving bargain shopping trips that little bit easier. He continued to say that customers realized that it was preferable to use a car hire rather than the family run-around because they could get more boot space as well as more miles to the gallon from a car rental.

Short was keen to point out that Enterprise would be opening many of its local branches on the Friday following Thanksgiving and that the hire firm would also be rolling out some money saving deals to customers over the holiday period. He went on to say that at Enterprise they often called their rental vehicles virtual cars because they were used by customers for situations where their own cars would not cope as well, such as providing a bigger space in which to transport the family or go on shopping trips or a more fuel efficient form of transport for those long journeys.