Top Rated Rental Car Companies

Enterprise

• Enterprise Rent-A-Car is the largest car rental company in North America. It's 65,000 employees service more than 90 percent of the American population with more rental stations than any of their competitors. The 2009 J.D. Power and Associates Rental Car Satisfaction Study ranked Enterprise at the top of the heap.

  Enterprise rents cars, SUVs, commercial trucks, sells used cars and has expanded over the past decades to include more than 900 international rental branches.

  Enterprise Rent-A-Car

  600 Corporate Park Drive

  Saint Louis, Missouri 63105

  800-261-7331

  enterprise.com

Hertz

• Hertz Car Rental operates more than 8,000 locations in 147 countries. These numbers make Hertz the world's largest car rental company and the top airport car rental brand in the United States. J.D. Power also considers Hertz among the top-rated car rental companies.

  The company that eventually became Hertz Car Rental was started in Chicago in 1918 with a small fleet of Model T Fords. In 1923 the owner sold to John Hertz who changed the name to his own and built a rental empire. Today Hertz rents a wide variety of vehicles including sports car, minivans, convertibles, luxury cars, economy cars and even "green" options for the environmentally conscious.

  Hertz Car Rental

  225 Brae Blvd.

  Park Ridge, New Jersey 07656

  800-654-4173

  hertz.com

National

• Although National Car Rental wasn't the first on the scene, it was certainly a trendsetter. This company started in 1947 when 24 independent rental agencies decided to form a 60-location partnership. A decade later they incorporated and proceeded to bring about major changes in the industry.

  National Car Rental was the first rental agency to use computers in its reservation system, in 1966. Before that, in 1954, the group began offering one-way rentals for travelers who wanted to drive to another city and drop the car off without bringing it back. No one had done that before. They were also the first to offer flat rate rentals, in 1976.

  J.D. Power regularly ranks National among the best car rental companies. The company rents everything from full-sized SUVs to convertible sports cars and hybrids.

  National Car Rental

  6929 North Lakewood Ave.

  Suite 100

  Tulsa, Oklahoma 74117

  nationalcar.com