Did you know that from 2008 to 2009 the fleet for tourism rental cars available in Portugal dropped by 20% from 50.000 cars to 40.000. This was matched by a similar drop of 20% in clients looking to rent cars but only outside of the peak months! The drop off in clients during the months of July and  August was just less 3% (Portuguese Tourism Board numbers), which meant there was a shortfall of 9.700 cars during this period, equating to a total of around 30.000 rentals requests which were unable to be fulfilled.