NATIONAL CAR RENTAL

'National Car Rental' is a rental car company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. National was founded by 24 independent rental car agents on August 27, 1947. It has grown from 60 locations in the United States in 1947 to over 2000 locations worldwide as of 2005. Since 1987 it has marketed the 'Emerald Club' to its renters, which was the first such program in the car rental industry. See below for more of an explanation.
National is owned by Vanguard Car Rental USA Inc., which also owns Alamo Rent A Car.
On August 1, 2007 Enterprise Rent-A-Car assumed control of Vanguard. It was purchased from Cerberus Capital Management, L.P.

Contents

Emerald Club

Emerald Club

Executive

Executive Elite

Executive VIP

Vehicle types

External links

Emerald Club

One of the rules for keeping membership is that one rental must be completed within each calendar year.
There are 3 levels of membership in the Emerald Club. To pass to one or the other you must first pass certain yearly milestones which are as follows:

★ Emerald Club ''Must rent'' 1-11 ''times or one for this many days:'' 1-39

★ Emerald Club Executive ''Must rent'' 12-24 ''times or one for this many days:'' 40-84

★ Emerald Club Executive Elite ''Must rent'' 25+ ''times or one for this many days:'' 85+

Emerald Club

★ 7 Credits needed to redeem one rental day

Executive

★ All the benefits of Emerald plus:

★ Renter is always charged the rate of the next lower class of vehicle. For this to apply however, a mid sized car or higher must be rented.

★ 6 Credits needed to redeem one rental day

Executive Elite

★ All the benefits of Emerald and Executive plus:

★ 5 Credits needed to redeem one rental day

Executive VIP

★ Open only to CEOs of major corporations
By Invitation of at least the vice president of marketing.

Vehicle types

★ 'Economy': Chevrolet Aveo or similar

★ 'Compact': Chevrolet Cobalt or similar

★ 'Mid-sized': Pontiac G6 or similar

★ 'Full-sized': Chevrolet Impala or similar

★ 'Mid-sized SUV':Chevrolet Equinox or similar

★ 'Standard SUV': Chevrolet TrailBlazer or similar

★ 'Premium': Buick Lucerne or similar

★ 'Luxury': Cadillac DTS or similar

★ 'Convertible': Chrysler PT Cruiser or similar

★ 'Minivan': Chevrolet Uplander or similar

External links

★ National Car Rental official web site

★ History of National Car Rental