🚀 Today marks one of the biggest improvements to the Car or no Car country-page templates since the project began. A brand-new scoring system now gives visitors a clearer and more structured way to understand transport options, driving conditions, and whether a rental car is actually a good idea. ✨
A new set of tables now breaks down each destination into three key questions:
🚇 1. “Do You Need a Car?” – Based on Non-Car Transport Modes
This score brings together all the public-transport and active-travel options, including trains, buses, walking, cycling, and ferries. It shows how easily you can explore a destination independently without a car, and whether distance, terrain or limited services make driving more practical.
🚗 2. Car Rental Factors – “Is It Worth Hiring a Car?”
The second table looks at car-related factors such as rental availability, cost, fuel prices, tolls, road quality, congestion, safety, and parking. These scores show whether driving feels practical, pleasant, and good value.
🧭 3. The Final Summary – “Should You Rent a Car?”
This final table combines three parts:
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how much you need a car,
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how worthwhile it is to hire one,
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plus key contextual factors such as taxi availability and whether hiring a driver helps.
Together, these elements produce a simple, balanced final score that tells you whether renting a car makes sense for that destination.
🌍 A Complete Global Rollout: Albania to Zimbabwe
These major template updates follow the full publication of car-related and non-car-related Car or no Car scores for every country and territory worldwide, from Albania through to Zimbabwe. This milestone brings consistency across the entire site. A few country pages still need the latest layout, but these will be updated over the next few days. Everything should be complete by the end of November, allowing December to focus on the new city pages.