Six years ago, we published a story about Turo, the outfit that many call the "Airbnb of rental car companies” (link at end). Like Airbnb, Turo acts as a middleman, matching persons who want to rent ...

Turo, one of the world’s largest alternative rental car companies, just announced a significant shift in its business that will likely appeal to travelers for whom the car itself is one of the ...

Peer-to-peer car lending has less oversight over both hosts and guests, contributing to a risky platform rife with criminal activity.

Turo offers three optional protection plans at an additional cost, each with increasingly more insurance coverage: a minimum, standard and premier plan. Depending on the level of add-on insurance from ...

In the early hours of Jan. 1, 2025, two horrific attacks shook the nation, raising serious questions about car-sharing platform security and potential terrorism links. In Las Vegas, a Tesla Cybertruck ...

OTHERS WITH MINOR INJURIES. WE’VE ALSO LEARNED THAT CYBERTRUCK AND THE TRUCK USED IN THE NEW ORLEANS ATTACK WERE RENTED USING THE SAME APP. IT’S CALLED TURO AND IS REFERRED TO BY SOME AS THE AIRBNB OF ...

Q: I rented a car from Turo in Baltimore recently. My family met our host at Baltimore/Washington International Airport, and he gave us the keys to the vehicle. Everything was going well, and we were ...

Turo, which investigators say was used to acquire the vehicles involved in the attack in New Orleans and explosion in Las Vegas, was emerging as an alternative car-rental service. By Eli Tan Reporting ...

Turo is a peer-to-peer car sharing platform that allows car owners to rent out their own cars to regular people. Consider it a sort of Airbnb for cars. Given high rental car prices and often limited ...

On New Year's Day, a man drove a rented Ford F-150 truck into a crowd of people in New Orleans, killing 15 and injuring more than 30. On the same day, someone parked a rented Tesla Cybertruck filled ...

A 10-hour rental advertised at $30 per day can easily become twice that. In this example, there’s a mandatory $15 trip fee. Then, Turo adds standard protection for $12 by default (though you can ...