Here is the top 37 best Car Rental and Sales Franchises you can start in USA:
1. Sixt Franchise USA LLC
- Investments $1,026,275
- Year Brand Started – 1912
- Year Franchising Started – 1998
- Offices – 2201
Franchise details: Sixt Franchise USA LLC
Official site
Starting out with just three cars, Martin Sixt opened his first rental agency in Munich, Germany, in 1912. The Sixt Company, which is still operated by his family, began franchising in 1998, opening offices around the world. In 2012, 100 years after its founding, the company brought its franchise program to the US. Franchisees rent cars, SUVs, and vans to the public.
2. Practicar
- Investments $80,000
- Year Brand Started – 1976
- Year Franchising Started – 1976
- Offices – 1110
Franchise details: Practicar
Official site
Thank you for your enthusiasm for Practicar's establishment program. The Practicar framework is a settled program that has offered clients reasonable evaluating on rentals, leases and auto deals since 1976.
3. Affiliated Car Rental
- Investments $46,500
- Year Brand Started – 1987
- Year Franchising Started – 1987
- Offices – 245
Franchise details: Affiliated Car Rental
Official site
Based in Eatontown, New Jersey, Affiliated Car Rental locations rent cars, trucks, mini vans, luxury and 4x4 vehicles. Certain centers also rent moving trucks and offer towing services.
4. J.D. Byrider
- Investments $675,480
- Franchise fee $50,000
- Year Brand Started – 1979
- Year Franchising Started – 1989
- Offices – 162
Franchise details: J.D. Byrider
Official site
Founded in 1989, J.D. Byrider is the nation’s leading used car and finance enterprise. The company integrates vehicle sales and financing because it provides the franchisee greatest control of the business and the ability to sell to any customer they want or feel is qualified. It is the only franchise opportunity in America that allows you to become a “bank” or lender.
5. U-Save Car & Truck Rental
- Investments $73,250
- Year Brand Started – 1979
- Year Franchising Started – 1979
- Offices – 151
Franchise details: U-Save Car & Truck Rental
Official site
U-Save has been in the rental car business for more than 30 years. With over 200 car and truck rental locations around the world. U-Save provides car rental discounts to businesses, individuals and families with fast, friendly, economical service with a personal touch. From your neighborhood or local airport to the nation's major markets and most popular vacation spots, U-Save Car and Truck Rental wants to make your car rental experience as satisfying as possible.
6. Rent-A-Wreck
- Investments $159,105
- Year Brand Started – 1969
- Year Franchising Started – 1977
- Offices – 132
Franchise details: Rent-A-Wreck
Official site
Since 1969, Rent-A-Wreck has owned, operated and franchised car rental locations all over the United States and in Scandinavia. Our unparalleled customer service, unique fleet of used vehicles and the resulting competitive rates we offer to the public, allow us to maintain our status as one of the best values in the car rental industry.
7. Velofix
- Investments $163,200
- Franchise fee $25,000
- Year Brand Started – 2012
- Year Franchising Started – 2013
- Offices – 130
Franchise details: Velofix
Official site
Velofix was founded in 2012 in Vancouver, BC, with a goal to give people more time to do what they love, RIDE! Velofix is a Mobile Bike ProShop in a 24-foot Mercedes Sprinter Van.
8. Wheel Fun Rentals
- Investments $46,000
- Year Brand Started – 1987
- Year Franchising Started – 2000
- Offices – 108
Franchise details: Wheel Fun Rentals
Official site
Brian McInerney founded Wheel Fun Rentals in 1987 in order to bring the four-wheeled Italian surrey cycle to California. The Southern California-based company began franchising in 2000. Wheel Fun Rentals has multiple units in operation and has identified more than 1,000 potential locations nationwide. It offers its franchisees exclusive territories and has co-branding relationships with city and state parks.
9. Payless Car Rental
- Investments $217,900
- Year Brand Started – 1971
- Year Franchising Started – 1971
- Offices – 106
Franchise details: Payless Car Rental
Official site
Payless Car Rental was established in 1971 in Spokane, Washington, by Les Netterstrom and his wife, Dusty. By 1982, their small two-location car rental business had grown to almost 100 franchises and one corporate-owned location. In 1983, the 150-location company changed its name to Payless Car Rental System Inc. In 1989, Netterstrom sold the company to a Taiwanese investment group. Eighty percent of the privately held company's franchise units are conversions; 47 percent of the franchisees own multiple locations.
10. RNR Tire Express & Custom Wheels
- Investments $500,000
- Franchise fee $35,000
- Year Brand Started – 2000
- Year Franchising Started – 2003
- Offices – 97
Franchise details: RNR Tire Express & Custom Wheels
Official site
RNR stores sell custom wheels and tires, with a rent-to-own option (called Rent-N-Roll) that allows customers to make weekly, bi-weekly or monthly payments. Based in Tampa, Florida, the company began franchising in 2003.
11. EagleRider Motorcycle Rental
- Investments $68,400
- Franchise fee $30,000
- Year Brand Started – 1992
- Year Franchising Started – 1997
- Offices – 77
Franchise details: EagleRider Motorcycle Rental
Official site
Harley-Davidson enthusiasts Chris McIntyre and Jeff Brown started EagleRider Motorcycle Rental in Newport Beach, California, in 1992. Using the marketing expertise they had gained working for companies like AT&T, McIntyre and Brown built a business that outfits its clientele with motorcycles and biker gear for day trips or week-long excursions. EagleRider centers are located in major cities across the United States, renting motorcycles, selling clothing and accessories, and offering guided tours.
12. Air Brook Limousine
- Investments $10,500
- Year Brand Started – 1969
- Year Franchising Started – 1971
- Offices – 73
Franchise details: Air Brook Limousine
Official site
Established more than thirty years, Air Brook Limousine is one of the largest limousine companies in the New Jersey & New York metropolitan area, and among the ten largest in the United States. Our fleet of more than 200 company-owned, radio-equipped vehicles comprises sedans, stretch limousines, vans, mini-buses and buses, insuring maximum service capability to the traveler. Air Brook Limousine offers travelers the highest quality at the lowest cost, making us the preferred limousine provider to corporations, travel agencies, and major airlines.
13. Racing Limos
- Investments $200,000
- Year Brand Started – 2002
- Year Franchising Started – 2003
- Offices – 53
Franchise details: Racing Limos
Founder Bryan Pease, with over 20 years in the hospitality industry was president of the largest non-taxi transportation fleet in Southwest Florida. This company focused exclusively on the group transportation and hotel guest needs of Fortune 500 companies holding their meetings in this high-brow affluent community.
14. Wheelchair Getaways
- Investments $40,000
- Franchise fee $17,500
- Year Brand Started – 1988
- Year Franchising Started – 1989
- Offices – 44
Franchise details: Wheelchair Getaways
Official site
In 1921 the Pennsylvania-based Van Artsdalen Express was a successful freight company. By 1972, it had been restructured to operate school buses instead of trucks. While working for the company, J. Edward Van Artsdalen noticed that people using wheelchairs were some of the most poorly served individuals in the transportation market.
15. RimTyme
- Investments $321,288
- Franchise fee $25,000
- Year Brand Started – 2005
- Year Franchising Started – 2007
- Offices – 38
Franchise details: RimTyme
Founded in 2005, RimTyme is an offshoot of ColorTyme, another rent-to-own franchise, which is a subsidiary of Rent-A-Center. RimTyme stores sell and install custom rims and tires, with payment options including a credit card, cash, lease ownership plan or 90 or 120-day cash payment.
16. Priceless Rent-A-Car
- Investments $188,255
- Year Brand Started – 1977
- Year Franchising Started – 1977
- Offices – 34
Franchise details: Priceless Rent-A-Car
Official site
Priceless Car Rental was created in response to consumer demand - and good, common sense. Our unparalleled customer service, premium fleet and competitive rates allow us to maintain our status as one of the best values in the car rental industry.
17. Beeline Bikes
- Investments $59,500
- Franchise fee $10
- Year Brand Started – 2013
- Year Franchising Started – 2015
- Offices – 28
Franchise details: Beeline Bikes
Official site
Beeline Bikes is changing the bike industry with a lofty objective: to get more people riding bikes by bringing a convenient bike shop experience to the customer.
18. Bates
- Investments $33,800
- Year Brand Started – 1973
- Year Franchising Started – 1995
- Offices – 20
Franchise details: Bates
Official site
For approximately 30 years, Bates has been innovative and building brand loyalty in a 4.5 Billion-Dollar industry that continues to grow. The continued expansion of the motor home rental business has been very steady, in all economic cycles.
19. Big Cat E-Bikes
- Investments $10,500
- Year Brand Started – 2015
- Year Franchising Started – 2018
- Offices – 17
Franchise details: Big Cat E-Bikes
Official site
BigCat® USA offers flexible packages with easy set-up options to guarantee all levels of business knowledge and needs are satisfied. All you need to do is choose which options are best for you! BigCat®USA will do the rest to get you on your way to gaining immediate cash flow.
20. Nextcar
- Investments $188,255
- Year Brand Started – 2003
- Year Franchising Started – 2015
- Offices – 17
Franchise details: Nextcar
Official site
Nextcar is the newest franchised car rental company of the IFS family of car rental brands. Nextcar began as one of the strongest local market franchised car rental operations in the country, managed by a team of talented car rental professionals that consistently outperformed their peers in bigger markets.
21. Pegasus
- Investments $100,000
- Year Brand Started – 1989
- Year Franchising Started – 1991
- Offices – 14
Franchise details: Pegasus
Official site
Interested in joining one of NZ's iconic kiwi franchises? Then join a group of 13 passionate owner operators already running their own Pegasus Car Rental franchises. <p> Pegasus Car Rental is a well-known national brand that's been around since 1989. As well as a great brand, you will have access to a national booking system, group buying power and marketing and training expertise. You will also have the support of a great head office team, as well as being able to leverage the combined knowledge of all our owner operators nationwide, it couldn't be easier.
22. AVR Van Rental
- Investments $100,000
- Franchise fee $50,000
- Year Brand Started – 2010
- Year Franchising Started – 2010
- Offices – 14
Franchise details: AVR Van Rental
Official site
We are pleased to announce that our expansion plans now include offering franchises as well as existing corporate owned branches. This expansion will be taking place throughout the US and we are actively looking for entrepreneurs who share our passion. AVR is proud to be a progressive company that is driven by providing the best customer experience possible over a decade.
23. Share My Coach
- Investments $62,825
- Franchise fee $29,900
- Year Brand Started – 2007
- Year Franchising Started – 2015
- Offices – 7
Franchise details: Share My Coach
Official site
ShareMyCoach offers to you, the right to own and operate your own ShareMyCoach Privately Owned RV Rental Management Company. Many factors make our franchise opportunity different. Traditional recreation rental companies must invest in their own inventory, then after years of renting, they then must find ways to sell and replace them. With your ShareMyCoach franchise you have no inventory cost.
24. GoCar GPS-Guided Tours
- Investments $175,000
- Franchise fee $45,000
- Year Brand Started – 2004
- Year Franchising Started – 2005
- Offices – 5
Franchise details: GoCar GPS-Guided Tours
Official site
With locations in Europe and the United States, GoCar Tours takes tens of thousands of people through some of the world’s most beautiful cities every year. Currently, GoCar Tours operates in San Francisco, San Diego, Lisbon, Barcelona, and Madrid with other cities vying for franchises of their own.
25. Scooter Planet
- Investments $75,000
- Franchise fee $29,000
- Year Brand Started – 2004
- Year Franchising Started – 2004
- Offices – 3
Franchise details: Scooter Planet
Buy Your Own Franchise Retail Outlet! Scooter rental locations are ideal in large cities as well as perfect for tourist or beach front locations that attract a young adult consumer group (think of all the college students looking for such vehicles during their spring break!)
26. RentMotoped
- Investments $180,200
- Franchise fee $35,000
- Year Brand Started – 2016
- Year Franchising Started – 2016
- Offices – 1
Franchise details: RentMotoped
Official site
RentMOTOPED is the newest and most exciting way to explore Buffalo! Rent out a Motoped, an easy to ride motorized bicycle with smooth capabilities of pedaling and cruising, and see all that Buffalo has to offer in style.
27. Whizzy Ride
- Investments $32,500
- Year Brand Started – 2016
- Year Franchising Started – 2017
- Offices – 1
Franchise details: Whizzy Ride
Official site
“Whizzy.” It means "technologically innovative" or a piece of technology, that is new and clever and functional. That's exactly what we are. We are a rapidly developing, innovative company that specializes in short trip smart vehicles; such as electric scooters, bikes, skateboards and accessories.
28. Driverseat
- Investments $30,000
- Franchise fee $21,000
- Year Brand Started – 2012
Franchise details: Driverseat
Official site
Transportation is changing, and Driverseat is driving the change. Established in 2012 and growing rapidly, Driverseat operates in hundreds of communities, providing a personal chauffeur to drive vehicles. Designated Driver, Airport Chauffeur, Assisted Transport & Vehicle Chauffeur offer four convenient options for every situation.
29. Budget Car & Truck Rental
- Investments $166,700
- Franchise fee $20,000
- Year Brand Started – 1958
Franchise details: Budget Car & Truck Rental
Official site
Budget Rent a Car is one of the largest car and truck rental companies in the world, with locations in more than 110 countries and all 50 United States. With more than 3,000 rental shops, including at 825 airports, Budget Rent a Car circulates approximately 232,500 vehicles. Though Budget Rent a Car began as a strictly low-cost rental option to other companies charging daily and per-mile rates, the company has grown substantially in its 50-plus years of operation, and has been ranked as the world’s third-largest vehicle rental company.
30. VaVia
- Investments $255,000
- Franchise fee $35,000
Franchise details: VaVia
Official site
We provide a smart, responsible and easy disposal solution in a one-of-a-kind franchise opportunity! We're growing. Be a part of the movement.
31. Thrifty Car Sales
Investments $765,000
Franchise fee $35,000
Franchise details: Thrifty Car Sales
Official site
Thrifty Car Sales is a subsidiary of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. (NYSE:DTG), a Fortune 1000 Company headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dealerships offer late model, low mileage vehicles. Thrifty Certified vehicles pass extensive inspection and are backed by a limited warranty.
32. Hop.City
- Investments $50,000
Franchise details: Hop.City
Official site
The Hop.City franchise is a leader in light electric vehicle free-float sharing networks for individuals and businesses!
33. Premier Wheel Workz
- Investments $50,000
Franchise details: Premier Wheel Workz
Official site
If you are looking for an opportunity that is just right for you, one that lets you take charge of your career and your life, by investing in your own business, Premier Wheel Rentals might make your dream come true. The majority of our franchisees have chosen Premier as their first venture into business ownership.
34. Automotive Art
- Investments $175,000
Franchise details: Automotive Art
Official site
Automotive Art is the Caribbean's largest Auto-Care retailer of car enhancement products and services. With its corporate headquarters in Barbados, it currently operates in over 20 countries with 27 stores throughout the Caribbean, Central and South America.
35. Dominion Auto Centers
- Investments $50,000
- Franchise fee $35,000
- Year Brand Started – 2012
- Year Franchising Started – 2012
Franchise details: Dominion Auto Centers
Official site
Dominion Auto Centres is Canada's first complete auto centre concept. Used Car/Truck Sales & Finance, Automotive Repair & Service, Tires, Towing Accessories and more! A truly complete concept and franchises are now available coast to coast.
36. Auto Car Brokers
- Investments $5,000
Franchise details: Auto Car Brokers
Do you have a PASSION for cars? Would you LOVE a job where you can work with them? If so, you should have a look at Auto Broking. You could potentially be making $500 - $1,000+ every single week...
37. Automatic Car Credit
- Investments $250,000
Franchise details: Automatic Car Credit
We're a used car dealer that specializes in helping people establish or re-establish their credit through the purchase of a vehicle. Since the early 1990's, our proven financing system has allowed thousands of customers purchase the vehicle they want, and more importantly, can afford.
