Look out for Enterprise Rent-A-Car 2006-2008 Chevy Impalas

A front page expose in the Kansas City Star on Sunday, August 16, (link: http://www.kansascity.com/842/story/1385463.html) revealed that Enterprise Rent-A-Car had ordered roughly 66,000 2006-2008 Chevy Impalas from GM with the side-curtain airbags (standard equipment on those model years) deleted (i.e. not installed on the factory floor) in order to save $175.00 per unit. When Enterprise resold the units (at auction, to dealers, as well as on its own used car lots), it did not disclose this deleted safety equipment. Thus, dealers reselling these units would not have known to disclose the lack of side airbags, which are listed as a standard feature on those models.