The Latest Breaking News from Hertz

Some customers may have had their Social Security numbers stolen, says the hire car company

Hertz has confirmed that it suffered a data breach at the end of last year and that hackers stole sensitive personal and financial data on its customers.

World Endurance Championship Hypercar machinery will take to the Goodwood circuit for the first time next month when one of Jota's Cadillacs will complete demonstration laps at the Members' Meeting.

Mustang enthusiasts and collectors are generally enamored with Shelby cars, especially the limited-edition black and gold GT-H versions used by Hertz. It's the only ex-rental car people pay over MSRP to get. But we're not sure that enthusiasm applies to the handful of Shelby Mach-E GTs in the rental fleet.

The battle of "electric versus every other powertrain" is an ongoing topic of debate. Automakers once had great ambitions of how quickly they expected the market to pick up battery-electric power, but have since scaled back their visions to a hybrid-heavy approach after the market failed to develop as quickly…

Time flies in a rapidly evolving automotive landscape. Tesla has gone from a quirky upstart to an established manufacturer. Its entry-level car, the Model 3 sedan has been in production for more than seven years. That means there are a lot of used Model 3s out there. 

It’s impossible to do any sort of electric vehicle coverage without mentioning Tesla. Yet, Editor-in-Chief Patrick George and I both realized something recently that astounded us both: InsideEVs doesn't have any recent, homegrown reviews of the Tesla Model Y. Odd.

Multiple Hertz customers, including the mayor of Denver, Colorado, attempting to pick up rental cars simply chose cars with keys in them, driving away after arriving at an unmanned rental counter at the Syracuse Regional Airport in upstate New York.

Hertz's pioneering of EVs as rental cars seemed foolproof—less maintenance and a lower total cost of ownership are two things that any company competing in the rental space strives for. But as Hertz quickly found out, its grand experiment went horribly wrong. It's now become a giant clearance event, where…