Bob

Yeah, that's what I've normally seen, depending on the country, one set of numbers would be bigger than the other, or sometimes the same but in orange v white etc.

Seems like a cheap and easy way to do it than having to do a special run for each market though.

Bob

If it's a digital dash, should be able to and if it doesn't come up in the dash options setting, it's certainly something that can get changed in most cars using the diagnostic computer plugged in.

SultanOfSwing

I have. Rented a Ford Focus in Dublin on our last trip home so we could drive up to me ma's place instead of having a connecting flight. The speedo was only in km/h, so there was me doing mental arithmetic in my head flying up the M1 to work out what 70 and 80 was

It's 112 and 128, if anyone cares. Even after 4 years I still remember those ...

SarahG

We rented a car to go from Indiana to Niagara Falls in Canada in November last year. Granted it was a round trip but we had no problems renting one. Had to show our passports when we rented it but other than that there was nothing else needed. The digital speedo was initially set to MPH but we changed it to Kilometers for the duration of our visit and then back to MPH.

Bomjeito

Seemingly forever the US vehicles were made in Canada to begin with. Forever means since the 80s when Canada was cheaper than Detroit to make "US" vehicles.

I rented from Budget from Syracuse, NY (and all rental companies allowed it, just ask for paperwork stating its a rental car and going to Canada - the folks at the counters well know what that is...) and went all over Ontario and Quebec, back through Vermont. The vehicle was a Buick and had the option for km or miles. Easy peasy.

Now, why Canada won't allow rental cars to go to USA and back is beyond me. So much for NAFTA. Hertz used to not allow rental cars to cross to Mexico; unsure if that is the case still.

It very well can be true that Canada doesn't want their rental cars going over the border. I find that hard to believe, though.

ETA: Do you mean that you want a one-way rental from Canada to USA? I can see why they'd not want to do that!

Jerseygirl

You can take rental cars from the US to Canada and Canada and the US...that is not the problem. The problem is renting a car in one country and dropping it off it another. When we tried to do it we hit a brick wall. None of the major rental companies would allow it.

md95065

Well, as I already said, I know it can be done (or, at least, could be done) because I did it about 8 years ago - all of the flights from Newark to Toronto got canceled because of bad weather and I simply had to be in Toronto the next day so I got a one way rental from Herz, drove up to Toronto that night, arriving at about 4am the next morning and dropped the car off in Toronto later the next day ...