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Do any of you have experiences where you pre-ordered an automatic car, but when you went to pick it up, the only car available was a manual transmission one ?

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Charming

Insist on automatic transmission

QEEQ User

This situation is normal, but you can insist, he will try to give you a car, but it may waste some time

QEEQ User

The place where you rent the car also matters. The two cars I picked up at the Rome airport Sixt and the railway station Herz were both automatic, an Alfa Romeo at the airport and a Fiat 500L at the railway station, which were all changed to Renault Koleos, and there were no problems.

QEEQ User

This won't work, I can't do it manually.

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