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The exotic and super-luxury car rental business on the Gulf Coast has a new player, this one in the Tampa market.
The fresh entry, Seminole-based Maz Exotics, offers more than 10 kinds of rare cars for rent, working out of a 5,000-square-foot showroom. Entrepreneur Carlos Mazariegos founded the company earlier this summer, after he sold a pharmacy business. It's a straight up do-what-you-love play. Says Mazariegos: “I had no business experience in cars. But I enjoy these kind of luxury cars.”
Mazariegos says he wants to make that enjoy-factor more available, if not cheaper. Cars for rent include Lamborghinis, Ferraris and Bentleys. Prices range from $300 a day to rent a 2009 Porsche 911 Carrera to $5,000 to rent a 2015 Ferrari 458 Spider for a three-day weekend. “We want people to experience these vehicles,” Mazariegos tells Coffee Talk. “They are such wonderful pieces of machinery.”
Mazariegos says he plans to target executives and wealthy vacationers from up north and overseas. Several other luxury car rental services on the Gulf Coast target similar markets. One, AutoXotic, opened in Sarasota last year. And rental car giant Hertz offers a luxury rental side, Dream Cars, in Fort Myers and Tampa.
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