Car Rental Groups Explained

You probably know that when you book a car with any car hire company you generally don’t book a specific model. Same applies froIzziRent.com price comparison site.

 By international standards the IzziRent.com carreservation system enables reservation of a vehicle group, not a specific vehicle brand. When you are choosing a vehicle in our reservation system, each vehicle type is marked by the “or similar”designation, meaning that you will receive a vehicle from the group that you have selected.

Whenever you are looking and booking car rental online with IzziRent.com you will always see 4 letter codes in car offers, that can tell you a lot if you know the designations of every letter.

This 4 letter codes are developed and maintained by ACRISS - Association of Car Rental Industry Systems Standards) are designed to enable customers and travel professionals to make an informed choice when booking car rental in Europe, Middle East and Africa. ACRISS Members include Avis, Budget, Alamo, Europcar, Hertz, Enterprise, and National. 

What Do Car Rental Codes Mean?

 CDMR, ECMR, FVMR; PDAR,..

First letter: vehicle category – based on size, cost, power and luxury factoR

Second letter: Type- chassis type (van, SUV, wagon, convertible….)

Third letter: Transmission/Drive -  automatic / manual & 2WD / 4WD / AWD

Fourth letter: Fuel/Air Conditioning - (petrol / diesel / hybrid…) and whether air conditioned

source: http://www.acriss.org/

For example:

MTMR group means you will get - M-Mini, T-convertible, M- manual transmission, R- unspecified fuel/air condition

With the usefull table above you can get the idea what car group you will get. And remember, no car rental company will guarantee you car brand!

Our site along with codes also offers you filter - when you use it correctly, you can optimize the search results according to your car rental demands.