{"id":24226,"date":"2019-09-25T09:39:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T13:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=24226"},"modified":"2019-09-25T09:39:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T13:39:21","slug":"rent-a-750-horse-hendrick-motorsports-camaro-from-hertz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/rent-a-750-horse-hendrick-motorsports-camaro-from-hertz","title":{"rendered":"Rent a 750-horse Hendrick Motorsports Camaro from Hertz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Call it Hertz Rent-a-Beast.<\/p>\n

The car rental company has teamed with its NASCAR race team, Hendrick Motorsports, to offer steroid-juiced rentals of Chevy\u2019s most insane Camaro muscle cars, the SS and ZL1.<\/p>\n

Cloaked in a menacing black wardrobe with yellow stripes down the hood, the Hertz-Hendrick V-8-powered monsters can be smoked off the airport lot beginning at $99 a day for the SS. The Hendrick car gains 25 horsepower over the standard SS thanks to engine tweaks.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0ZL1, which harbors the same supercharged engine as the 650-horse Corvette Z06, is cranked to 750 ponies thanks to\u00a0a Hendrick-exclusive\u00a0Callaway supercharger. The ZL1 can be had for a stiff $299 a day.<\/p>\n

Starting this fall, travelers can find the ZL1 at Hertz counters at airports in\u00a0Charlotte, Las Vegas, Miami, Orlando and Phoenix. The SS will be at those locations as well as Atlanta, Dallas, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Houston, Los Angeles, Nashville, San Diego, San Francisco and Tampa.<\/p>\n

Hertz has sponsored Hendrick\u2019s NASCAR No. 24 Camaro \u2014 one of four entered by Hendrick in the Monster Energy Series \u2014\u00a0since 2018 with driver William Byron on board. Hendrick\u2019s supply of Camaros to Hertz completes the marketing loop. Rental companies are healthy markets for Detroit 3 muscle with the Camaro and its Ford Mustang and Dodge Challenger competitors available.<\/p>\n

Hertz\u2019s so-called Hendrick \u201cpace cars\u201d are not the rental agency\u2019s first performance car rodeo.<\/p>\n

The company rents other performance\u00a0cars as part of its Adrenaline Collection. The international rental brand rents Maseratis in Italy, Jaguars in England\u00a0and \u201cKollektion 7\u201d performance cars in Germany (including athletes like the BMW Z4, Mercedes-AMG GT and Porsche 718 Boxster).<\/p>\n

For the U.S. Ford faithful, Sixt Rent a Car offers a 600-horse Shelby Mustang GT-S with 600 horsepower in limited locations.<\/p>\n

Renters of the Camaros might want to bring their helmet. They are the most ferocious Camaros on the market. The Hertz-Hendrick ZL1 is part of an elite club of muscle cars that puts out more than 700-horsepower,\u00a0including the 717-horse Challenger Hellcat and forthcoming 760-horse Mustang GT500.<\/p>\n

In addition to the custom paint job and engine upgrades, the Hertz-Hendrick cars will be distinguished by touches like special wheels and embroidered headrests with driver Byron\u2019s signature and No. 24\u00a0team logo.<\/p>\n

The celebrate the debut of the monster Camaros\u00a0in Hertz\u2019s fleet, customers can register to win an SS until Nov. 18. Five finalists get a day at Hendrick Motorsports\u2019 Charlotte facilities that includes a ride-along with Byron at Charlotte Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n

The Hertz partnership will help raise Camaro\u2019s profile at a time when the badge has struggled. Camaro was the best-selling muscle car in the U.S.\u00a0in 2014,\u00a0but has since dropped to third.<\/p>\n

Hertz customers can find more details at www.hertz.com\/rentacar\/misc\/index.jsp?targetPage=custom_camaro.jsp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Call it Hertz Rent-a-Beast. The car rental company has teamed with its NASCAR race team, Hendrick Motorsports, to offer steroid-juiced rentals of Chevy\u2019s most insane Camaro muscle cars, the SS and ZL1. Cloaked in a menacing black wardrobe with yellow stripes down the hood, the Hertz-Hendrick V-8-powered monsters can be smoked off the airport lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}