A lot of people have this notion that if you’re going to use a car for a week and then just dispose of it, you’re better off buying a cheap car, driving wherever you want to go and then sell it at your destination than renting one. Well, this couldn’t be farther from the truth.
Unless you’re lucky enough to buy a car for 200 dollars that’ll miraculously run for more than 10 miles without breaking down, let alone between cities, and then manage to sell it back for the same price, the possibilities of something going wrong with that plan are astronomical. And with all the car hire deals that rental car companies offer all the time, you’ll be hard pressed not to find something that works out perfectly for you.
The piece of mind of driving a car that’s safe should be enough to make you take the renting road, but if not consider this. The odds of someone wanting to buy from you the car that you just bought on a whim and that now has had a couple of hundred miles added to the total are very low. You’ll probably end up selling it to a dealer for little to no money, or selling it for parts.
