A question for the Brits...

I was reading a book in which the character is trying to rent and car with an automatic transmission in England and none of the car rental companies have one available. Is this normal? The writer made it sound like an automatic was rare. I mean, around here, if a rental company didn't have automatics they'd go out of business in a week.

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ArtieKat · M

I would say it depends on the size of car here in the UK. The luxury brands like Jaguar will be available mainly in automatic transmission, but small hatchbacks will be quite rare as rentals. It's mostly grannies who drive them and I doubt they are regular renters.