Enterprise Faces Class Action Suit Over Fraudulent Used Car Sales

After a rental car accrues so many miles, Enterprise Rent-A-Car takes it off the rental lot and places it on the sales lot. But do you really know what you’re buying when you purchase a used Enterprise car? A recent class action lawsuit claims you don’t.

According to the proposed class action lawsuit, Enterprise resold more than 125,000 vehicles without the advertised side-impact air bags. The vehicles include:

2006, 2007, 2008 Chevy Impalas

2008, 2009 Chevy Cobalts

2009 Chevy Heritage High Roofs (HHR)

2006, 2007 Buick La Crosses

Enterprise allegedly ordered these vehicles, which normally carry side-impact air bags, from General Motors and requested that the standard safety equipment of front and rear side air bags be deleted. Enterprise then sold these vehicles to customers without notifying them that the vehicles don’t come with the standard safety equipment advertised by GM and on auto review websites. “This would lead any consumer to reasonably assume that the [vehicle] it buys from Enterprise would be the same as a used [vehicle] purchased from any other source,” says the class action lawsuit. “[Enterprise] knew or should have know that the purchasers of the vehicles would assume the vehicles contained all standard equipment,” yet failed to tell them about the discrepancy.

The proposed class action lawsuit will include anyone who bought the above-mentioned make, model and year from Enterprise that did not have the standard side air bags.