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Budget Offers Double Perfect Drive Points For Booking on its Web Site

4 April 2000

Budget Rent a Car Offers Double Perfect Drive Points For Booking on its Web Site: www.budget.com

  Members Also Receive 20 Percent Rebate on Perfect Drive Point Redemptions


    LISLE, Ill., April 4 Members of Budget Rent a Car's
Perfect Drive customer loyalty program will start seeing double this month,
when they book their car rentals on the company's Web site: http://www.budget.com.
    To celebrate the second anniversary of Perfect Drive, Budget will award
double Perfect Drive points to those members who book and rent their car
rentals on http://www.budget.com between April 1, 2000 and June 30, 2001.  As a
bonus, Perfect Drive members will receive a 20 percent rebate on all points
redeemed on http://www.budget.com.  For example, if a customer redeems 1,000 points
for a piece of merchandise, they will receive a rebate of 200 points on their
Perfect Drive account.
    Launched on April 1, 1998, with Callaway Golf(R) as Budget's initial
program partner, Perfect Drive has continued to grow steadily in membership.
In addition to car rentals, members can redeem their Perfect Drive points for
Bolle(R) eyewear, airline miles, Cruise America motorhomes and motorcycle
rentals, spa certificates, and resort vacation and cruise ship packages.
    For more information on Perfect Drive and its awards, customers are
encouraged to visit Budget's Web site at http://www.budget.com.  In addition to
making reservations online, members of Perfect Drive can check their point
activity balances and/or redeem points for awards online, 24/7.
    Membership in Perfect Drive is free, and enrollment is easy.  Renters who
sign up for Budget's Fastbreak express service are automatically enrolled in
Perfect Drive.  Fastbreak, which offers paperless transactions, greater
vehicle choices and rapid returns, is so fast -- customers can be on their way
in just a matter of seconds.

    Perfect Drive: The Program
    Perfect Drive is a fully-automated, revenue-based program, which awards
members with one point for every dollar they spend on qualifying rentals at
participating Budget locations, including standard rental charges and optional
items such as refueling, taxes, etc.  Customers can earn Perfect Drive points
at over 900 U.S. Budget locations; more than 150 Budget locations throughout
Canada; over 500 Budget locations throughout Europe, the Middle East and
Africa; and participating Cruise America and BGI Parking locations in the U.S.
    Budget Rent a Car Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Budget Group,
Inc. , is one of the world's top three car and truck rental systems.
The Budget system, which operates under the same name worldwide, has more than
3,000 airport and local market locations in over 120 countries and
territories.  Budget has more than 1,000 corporate-owned and franchised
locations in the United States.  Budget's WorldClass Fleet is comprised of
more than 30 percent specialty vehicles, ranging from sport utility vehicles,
convertibles and luxury cars to minivans, pickups and environmentally friendly
vehicles.  Visit the company's Web site at http://www.budget.com.