Flexcar and Zipcar announced that they will merge, soon giving their members access to a larger fleet of vehicles. After years of bringing home a loss, they decided to join forces to expand more aggresively and to leverage economies of scale to finally turn a profit.

The new company will be known as Zipcar.

If any South Silver Springers have a Zipcar membership, you should soon have access to the Flexcar cars in the Blair parking lot.

http://www.zipcar.com/111welcome/

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