Anybody have any luck with reasonable car rentals recently?

[NQAS]

In March I rented a car for a 4-day, 1000-mile round trip. Cost was about $350.

Want to do the same now, and that rental is anywhere from $700 to over $1,000. I've read the articles about why this is happening, so I don't need an explanation.

Has anyone had any surprising luck with reasonably priced car rentals in the northeast?

[marble falls]

1. One trick is: rent a pickup truck on one of their 29.95/day + milage local deals.

[NQAS]

3. In my area

We have only Hertz and Enterprise, and they are definitely not running at 29.95 specials, on any vehicles. Also, I'm trying to avoid the use of a pickup. I have a pick and I really don't like driving that when I'm circumnavigating NYC and NJ. Looks like that'll be what I'll do, but the other post was right. The days where car rental was a minor add-on are gone, at least for now.

[Dream Girl]

2. Car rentals have gone insane. Not helped by all of the consolidation in the industry.

Gone are the days when cat rental rates were almost incidental

[flying_wahini]

4. I Use TURO all the time. Just used it last week in San Francisco

A 6 day trip averaging $77 dollars a day. That was with minimal coverage.
I paid for my own gas and paid an extra$20 so I didn’t have to clean it.

$470 ish for 2019 Mitsubishi Outback.

[HUAJIAO]

5. I'm getting $459 from Enterprise for Economy car for a week near Rochester, NY.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

6. My wife got a week in Iowa over Memorial Day for about $350

We paid when we reserved her ticket a couple months ago. Unfortunately the car was too small so she had to upgrade, which added another $150 onto the final bill.