Help me pick a rental in Costa Rica

Kinja'd!!! "Slow4o" (Slow4o)
05/15/2014 at 23:46 • Filed to: None

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So for our one year anniversary, my wife and I are going to take a trip to Costa Rica. I plan on driving around the Carribean side of the country, and am going to rent a car from !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

Wild Rider offers a couple cars: a Suzuki Jimny, a Daihatsu Terios and Bego, a RAV4, and a Hyundai Tucson. They all have manuals except for the Tucson, so hooray! I am thinking of getting the Terios, since apparently the Jimny is slower than pretty much anything, but wanted to see if Oppo (especially the Europeans) had any experience with any of the foreign to US market cars (I know RAV4's and Tucson's, but the RAV4 is almost 100 bucks more a week, and the Tucson is auto). Thanks!


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Kinja'd!!! PG; the scalpel wielder > Slow4o
05/17/2014 at 18:00

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jimney! we hired one in fiji and it was very capable and fun. the terios is a bit cheap and nasty in comparison


Kinja'd!!! Slow4o > PG; the scalpel wielder
05/17/2014 at 19:28

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Huh really? Everything I've seen online seems to suggest the opposite haha.


Kinja'd!!! PG; the scalpel wielder > Slow4o
05/17/2014 at 19:40

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haha, well that's odd. I've only driven the terios on normal city roads so cant comment about it's offroad ability. But the jimny will surprise you. We took it up a rocky mountain, only once we reached the top did we realise it was still in 2wd!


Kinja'd!!! Slow4o > PG; the scalpel wielder
05/17/2014 at 19:47

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I have read that the Jimny is fantastic offroad, but a nightmare on the highway. Most of my driving will be highway/street driving, with the 4WD just being there to give us some options or if we run across a bad road. I went ahead and reserved the Terios, but I might check out the Jimny when I get there.