Jim Walker, 21 september 2006
We are a family of five and leased a Nissan Pathfinder this summer. We picked the car up in Paris and dropped it in Amsterdam after driving over 8,000 Km. Both picking up and dropping the car was easy.

We hadn't realized that Renault had ownership in Nissan when we started planning our trip. The Pathfinder was great for us, except for driving through streets in Rome where cars were double parked! The car was large enough to carry us comfortably and was reasonably fuel efficient.

We didn't request the GPS but it was great to have. We would lease through Ideamerge again and would recommend a Pathfinder.

Lorri, macdonald108@mchsi.com, 21 september 2006
We went on a five week trip to Europe this summer. It was our first trip to Europe and we took the whole family (5), my five year old little girl and our two teenage boys. We started in Sweden and picked up the pathfinder in Germany and had it for 24 days. Everything went very smooth with pick up and drop off. We put about 5000 km on our car. I would also like to have had the owner's manuel in English, but the pictures helped with a couple of things we couldn't figure out. We got the GPS navigation system and that was the best decision we could have made. We named her "Grace" because it was only by grace that we were able to navigate to our destinations. We went all over Germany and Austria and into Prauge. Without grace I know my husband and I would have had "tension" with navigation. And of course our boys always knew the right way to go-- after the fact. We also used the Gps to find the nearest hospital in southern Germany when my 16 yr/old fell off a railing into a briar patch and hurt his knee pretty bad. There was plenty of room for us and our luggage (and a bandaged knee with crutches). We did pack light-- only one carry-on suitcase and a backpack per person. On long segments of the trip we would put our daughter in the way back with stuff all around her so the boys could have more room. My eighteen year old is '6"4.
The Pathfinder comes with a sliding trunk screen thing which we had to leave with our friends in Germany in order to use the third row seat. Our battery died in Rothenburg and we had help within an hour. One tip I can offer is to park the car outside the big cities and take public transportation in. We stayed 4 days in Prauge and got to our old town appartment to drop of the bags & kids and then drove back out of town to a guarded park and ride. It was very inexpensive and our car was undisturbed when we returned. We did the same in Vienna and Berlin. We definately got some looks along the way. A car this big is unusual. The French (out of country) license plates seemed to help explain any tiny errors we made while trying to figure out road signs. We did make a huge mistake when it was time to drop off the vehicle. We forgot to return our vehicle when we arranged. It's a long story but sufice it to say we were a day late and it was actually not a problem, we just had to pay for the extra day. We would use idea merge again in a heartbeat. There are so many positives that I could not see the sense of renting a vehicle for that long a trip.

Frederique Behm, behm0001@mc.duke.edu, 21 september 2006

We leased a Nissan Pathfinder this summer (06) for an 8 week trip in France. The help I received in both lining-up and picking-up the vehicle were great. Jerry at idea merge was efficient and friendly. The staff at the renault dealership in paris were pleasant, although a bit slow, especially since we were dealing with a new employee who obviously had a lot to learn, but they were accomodating. We wished their offices were open every day, weekend included, which would have been easier for pick up and return. Our Nissan Pathfinder was brand-new and in perfect condition. It functioned flawlessly and we felt safe driving it while being a lot of fun to drive! We dropped off our car in Paris again, we were treated with the same courtesy and ease we'd experienced earlier. I would definitely do this again. Thank you.