You Can Now Buy Used Hertz Rental Cars From Amazon

Beginning this week, shoppers in Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, and Seattle can browse Hertz’s pre-owned vehicles directly on Amazon Autos, complete the entire purchase online, and pick up the car at a Hertz location. There are plans to expand the program to 45 locations nationwide shortly.

The play is a major expansion of Hertz’s car-selling ambitions. The company already sells hundreds of thousands of cars each year after rotating them out of its rental fleet, but until now, its Car Sales division has mostly relied on physical storefronts and its website.

By tapping into Amazon’s platform, Hertz gains access to a much larger marketplace where millions of people already shop daily.

For Amazon, the deal marks another step deeper into the automotive business. Its Autos platform launched in December of last year through a partnership with Hyundai to sell new cars online. In the eight months since, the Amazon Autos platform has expanded to include used and certified pre-owned models—Hertz is the first fleet partner.

Buyers can expect to find familiar rental car fleet queens from Ford, Toyota, Chevrolet, and Nissan, among the offerings.

Hertz wants you to understand this partnership as part of the company’s ongoing “Back-to-Basics Roadmap,” a turnaround strategy put in place after the rental agency's failed EV expansion and pandemic-era bankruptcy. Other programs, like Rent2Buy—which lets customers rent a car for three days before deciding whether to purchase it—have also been growing, with plans to reach more than 100 cities.

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