Border opening: industry warns of rental car cost blowout

Border opening: industry warns of rental car cost blowout
Sinking lid: lack of cars will take 'budget' out of the rental camper market. (Image: supplied)
Brent Melville
Holidaying New Zealanders and offshore arrivals can expect to pay double the pre-pandemic rate for rental cars and campers when NZ borders open next month.The car rental sector, decimated by the pandemic response from early 2020, is now operating as a shadow of its former self after downsizing its fleet and not replacing older stock. It is now struggling to play catch up in the wake of a global shortage of cars.According to the Motor Industry Association (MIA), in any ‘normal’ pre-pandemic month, the NZ rental car industry could hav...

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