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Have you been planning to take a road trip with your friends or an outing with your family, but kept on postponing because of transportation problems? Although it's environmentally better if you take public transportation, but then the hassle of transferring from one connection to the other is just bothersome.

Carrentals.com might be the key to your travel woes. You might be lucky enough to rent a car for as cheap as $8.99/day. Through Carrentals, you can reserve cars and save upto 40%.

I tried reserving a car from LAX on Dec. 3-5, and got one for 10% off. It had a daily base rate of $6.67/day totaling $34.32 inclusive of all taxes. Not bad, although I wasn't lucky enough to get a destination with a 40% discount.

It's best to check on their site every hour, since they update the rates hourly.