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“If you must brave the weekend traffic to the Hamptons, you might as well do it in style.  Gotham Dream Cars has a $2 million fleet of luxury cars to rent by the day, weekend, or week…All you have to do is choose among the Ferrari F430 Spider, Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster, and Bentley Continental GTC…Then you’re off in your Murcielago to Tutto Il Giorno in Sag Harbor.”  Click below for a clip of the piece.

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Rob stopped by the “10! Show” on Philadelphia’s NBC10 for their Father’s Day Man Show special, and he brought some toys with him — the evil Lamborghini Murcielago and our new baby the Saleen S7.  Watch as Rob tries to pretend like he has any idea what “The Skoogle” is (a cousin of Google?  A rare skin disorder?  A highway in Philadelphia?).  See below for video…

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Alice Stockton-Rossini from 1010 WINS (the most listened-to station in the nation, ya know) stopped by the clubhouse the other day to ogle some cars and learn about the Dream Car Tour.  She was psyched!  She did a brief interview with our own COO Rob Ferretti and then hit the streets to get some thoughts from John Q. Public.  Sorry guys, no Lexuses here…

Full story and audio below…

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Love him or hate him, everyone knows Imus.  And Imus loves GDC.  This past week he made a point of giving us a shout out on-air (thanks!).  Here are some clips of him fighting the good fight for us…

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Robb Report Collection writer Matt Phenix joined us for a Dream Car Tour recently and had a blast. He wrote about his experience in the February Robb Report Collection in its special “Adventure Guide.” Click below for the full story…

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BusinessWeek had a nice little blurb about us in their January 14th issue: “The rich in America can afford to buy super-luxury autos—and many do. But car connoisseurs increasingly are purchasing time shares in fancy cars…” Read on for the full piece.

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We’ll take the good with the bad. Steve Smith over at the Orlando Sentinel wrote an excellent story about this crazy industry and included some “tales from the field” that we relayed to him. “Gotham, one of the largest and oldest companies of its kind in the country, rents exotic autos from offices in New York City and Miami. As you might expect, the Miami fleet is heavy on bling in general, convertibles in particular.”

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We sat down with Money for Breakfast host Peter Barnes for a chat about the business during their ‘One Thing You Should Give’ segment. They had originally scheduled an outside interview and spin around the block, but it started snowing during the taping, so we had to scratch that idea. Ahh the joys of exotic cars during the holiday season. Click to see the video…

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This was just awesome - CNBC Power Lunch did a 5 minute segment on us in their pre-holiday round-up. An amazing experience - we brought an F430, the Vanquish, and the red Murcielago to their studios and chatted with co-anchors Bill Griffeth & Melissa Francis. Click below for the full video…

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It appears as if some news outlets are actually listening to the advice we have to offer (::shock::).  Below are some clips of the coverage’s we’ve received from our “DOs and DON’Ts” release about what to be aware of before renting the car of your dreams…

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Cody, one of the co-hosts of the ‘Happy Hour’ show on FOX Business, met up with us in Central Park and took a mid-day spin in our orange Gallardo Spyder. He was enthusiastic, to say the least (who wouldn’t be?). He even managed to keep an (almost) straight face after he cut his back on his mic transmitter as he hopped in the car Dukes of Hazard-style….click below for the full video…

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Fortune’s automotive journalist Sue Zesiger Callaway gave us a terrific mention in her piece for CNNMoney.com & Fortune Magazine: “Just call GDC and tell it what you want, when, and where — and the company will make it happen. GDC prides itself on being available and flexible — it even gives members an extra day free on weekend rentals.”

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Kicking the holiday season off on the right foot, Auto Aficionado was kind enough to give our Dream Car Tour a nice mention in their annual holiday gift guide. See below for photos of the coverage (thanks to our friend Greg G. for spotting this!)

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Spirit Magazine took our Aston Martin Vanquish for a spin and did a feature on an “extreme makeover” of their writer, Jesse Hicks.  From the piece:  “Outside the hotel awaited my chariot: an Aston Martin V12 Vanquish, illegally parked, its tungsten finish gleaming like quicksilver in the sun.”  Click below for a picture and a highlight…

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“A midlife crisis doesn’t always come cheap. More than one person has put an expensive sports car in the driveway about halfway through the ordeal, only to find that the buyer’s-remorse aftermath then creates a whole new set of crises. That’s why getting your fix by simply renting a fantasy car might be the hot ticket.”

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Well, it’s official — we are the most expensive car rental company in NYC — at least according to Pocket Change NYC. They sent over the ever-charming Richard Nouveau and two of his beautiful assistants to make absolutely certain our Lamborghini Murcielago is where it’s at. And it was. Click below to read his take…

(Also, the New Jersey Star-Ledger picked up the piece and wrote their own little note about it. Full text below…)
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Our friends over at Fast Lane Daily stopped by our last Dream Car Tour and sent along former-GDC-intern, now FLD-executive-producer Kenny Herman to experience what everyone’s been talking about. Kenny successfully managed to avoid crashing any of the cars and actually had a blast! Full video coverage is available below the jump …

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The Today Show gave us a great mention during their annual Father’s Day Gift Roundup. Our friends from over at LX.TV hosted the segment and it became clear (after the shoot) that Al Roker loves his Murcielagos! We got a chance to park our car right smack in the middle of the Plaza @ Rock Center and the crowd loved it.  Click below for video clip that aired…

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The Broward-Palm Beach New Times bestowed upon us the honor of “Best Not-So-Cheap Thrill” for 2007. We were gunning for “Best Expensive Italian Restaurant”, but Rob overcooked the osso buco (maybe next year…)  But seriously, we want to thank the editors for the award and mention! More below…

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The May 2007 issue of Business Traveller Magazine has a nice mention of our partnership with Mandarin Oriental, New York. Get psyched for Father’s Day…!

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Ours friends at Cirkitvision stopped by the Clubhouse during the Dream Car Tour this morning to shoot some photos and video to promote the Win a Dream Car Experience contest we’re co-sponsoring. Check out their report and be sure to ogle some of the fantastic photos shot by our extremely talented friend Michael Lussos. Some eye candy…

So our DreamShare announcement a few days ago got the attention of some big names on the automotive press circuit…read on to see what Luxist, Autoblog and Thrillist had to say about it…!

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Yolanda Vazquez from the PBS show Motorweek did a story for this week’s episode about…wait for it…renting exotic cars in South Florida! She stopped by with her camera crew to chat with us and take a quick spin in the yellow Gallardo Spyder. Something about reporters and Lamborghinis….click below to see our segment…

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CBS called. We answered. They wanted to talk about this crazy business we deal with. We said, “Cool.” They stopped by. We partied. Film at 11 (literally!)

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Forbes.com gave us a shout-out in their slideshow on “Luxury Car Clubs”