Tempest Car Hire Review

An independent review of Tempest Car Hire

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Tempest car hire is a South African car rental company best known for its commitment to "bring you low car rental rates". It has outlets across South Africa, including at the major airports - Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. It and Europcar (South Africa) are both part of the Imperial Holdings Group (a company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange). Its major competitors are First Car Rental, Avis, Budget and Hertz.

Tempest Reservations

You can make a Tempest Car Hire reservation via the internet or telephonically:

Website reservations	Tempest Car Hire
Email reservations	reservations@tempestcarhire.co.za
Telephonic reservations from inside South Africa	0861-TEMPEST
Telephonic reservations from outside South Africa	+27-11-552-3900

Member of SAVRALA

Tempest Car Hire is a member of SAVRALA, the South African Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association.

Official name of Tempest Car Hire

Tempest Car Hire (Pty) Ltd
Tempest Car Hire Namibia (Pty) Ltd

Web traffic

The graph below provides an indication of the web traffic which Tempest Car Hire's website has been receiving:

Specials

25 Apr 2013

Great Cape Escape ( Western Cape)
Rates from R199 per day for a group T vehicle including 200km’s free per day
To book call Tempest and quote CHILLY3 or book online using promo code CHILLY4
Offer valid for car rentals from 1 June to 31 July 2013

Jozi Special (Gauteng)
Rates from only R249 per day for a group B including 200km’s free per day
To book call Tempest and quote CHILLY1 or book online using promo code CHILLY2
Offer valid for car hire up to 31 July 2013

Note:
·        Includes Super Cover with 200km’s free per day,
·        Valid for 1day rentals plus only
·        Standard extension rates will apply
·        Valid for debit and credit card rentals only
·        We reserve the rights to retract these offers without prior notice
·        Subject to availability
·        Terms and Conditions apply

June 2012

Mango & Tempest car hire special

Apr 2008

Tempest announces specials including R185 a day for a Toyota Corolla or R500 a day for a Group E Bus, airport transfers from R176 a trip and GPS units from R49 a day.

History of Tempest Car Hire

Oct 2011	Tempest are now allowing customers to book with a debit card (or credit car/cheque card) at any of their branches country widel. Customers should ensure that their floor limit on their card is high enough for Tempest to take the liability amount for their rental.
Sep 2011	Tempest change their logo. Here's the old one: And here is the new one:
26 May 2011	A car thief, who had been on the run since March 2008 for the theft of 18 vehicles, is arrested in Soweto. He is alleged to have stolen car vouchers from the company where he worked, used them to rent vehicles from Tempest, and then hired out the cars from his own vehicle hire company.
June 2010	Tempest Car Hire & Kia brand 6 Kia Picantos with footballs to celebrate the Fifa World Cup taking place in South Africa, and offered customers who drove the branded vehicles a discounted price (no longer available).
6 Oct 2009	Tempest Car Rental October 2009 newsletter.
21 Jan 2009	Tempest Car Hire January 2009 newsletter.
1 Oct 2008	Tempest Sixt announces that it has teamed up with PopEye Wrap-A-Rental Media (Pty) Ltd to place marketing paraphernalia into the Tempest Sixt fleet, and to brand some of the cars (initially 12).
22 Apr 2008	Tempest start advertising through Trafficsynergy (this agreement only lasts a few months).
5 Mar 2008	Tempest announced their partnership with Dreamfields, providing "Dreambags" to students who love playing soccer. A DreamBag includes fifteen pairs of boots, five soccer balls, and fifteen sets of kit, including numbered shirts, shorts and socks. In other words, everything you need to start a new team, or to make one that’s up and running feel like they can take on the world. Dreamfields will be identifying 16 schools in the Gauteng area and (together with Mango Airlines) will be providing them with Dream bags. To get involved call the CEO of Dreamfields, John Perlman, on +27 (0) 11 712 7528 or email johnperlman@dreamfields.org.za.
5 Mar 2008	Tempest announces a R189 per day car hire special, and also a competition to run to the end of April 2008.
6 Febr 2008	Janita Edwards is appointed sales & marketing director for Tempest Sixt Car Hire.
Oct 2001	Tempest wins the Sixt-Rent-A-Car franchise for Southern and Central Africa.
1991	Tempest car hire is purchased by the Imperial Group.

25 Jul 2008	Tempest Car Hire's July newsletter, offering car rentals from R158 a day.
24 Jun 2008	Tempest Car Hire's June newsletter, in which they advertise car rentals from R149 per day on weekends. And Tempest team up with Mango & advertise Mango flights from R311. They also team up with Standard Bank, and advertise the Standard Bank Travel Wallet.
18 May 2008	Tempest & Sixt South Africa just sent out their May newsletter (partnership offers with Southern Sun, Mango and Standard Bank are contained in the newsletter).
16 Apr 2008	Terrific Tempest Car Hire has offered the cheapest car rentals in every single car hire survey which has been run by SouthAfrica.to

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