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    <title><![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - Rent a car]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Consell de Mallorca starts counting vehicles after carrying out a load study]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/1d960f67-a517-4c24-90ac-db7f9b94c903_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The Consell will allocate €1.2 million to install 250 cameras in Mallorca (125 license plate readers and 125 surveillance cameras) with the aim of obtaining more data on the origin and type of cars before limiting the number of vehicles on the island. This comes after having already paid a <a href="https://www.arabalears.cat/societat/consell-mallorca-demanara-parlament-limitar-cotxes-lloguer-capacitat-carreteres_1_5179747.html" >load study</a> which was presented in October 2024 and which states that almost 400,000 vehicles entered Mallorca in 2023. The island councilor for Territory, Mobility and Infrastructure, Fernando Rubio, has justified that the data extracted will allow "a much more detailed load study, with data, and will reassure the sector of <em>It's expensive. </em>who has requested it and it's understandable that they want more specific data." </p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura López Rigo]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:48:04 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The meeting between Baleval and the Consell de Mallorca.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The island council will spend 1.2 million euros on installing cameras at 125 points on the island to determine the origin and type of cars that circulate there.]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Car rental pitfalls: exorbitant charges, lack of information, and opaque practices]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/0ad71d66-a8e3-4e1d-8dd7-a391ae86acfe_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>MF rented a car in Valencia for a long trip. Upon returning the vehicle, they charged her €200 on her credit card—and the company wanted it to be €500—for exceeding the mileage. "But no one had told us we couldn't do that," she says. On the other hand, Francisca (not her real name) explains that they wanted to charge her for not carrying her physical card, but if she took out vehicle insurance, they would let her pay with her mobile phone. "I didn't know I had to carry the physical card because they didn't inform me," she says. These are some of the victims of the abusive practices applied by some car rental companies, which are under social suspicion because the Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU) recently reported five companies for "lack of transparency and abusive clauses."</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura López Rigo]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 08 Oct 2025 19:16:43 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Hundreds of rental cars in a parking lot near Palma airport.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Only 10% of users who had incidents with car rental companies formally notified Consum.]]></subtitle>
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