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Financial Instruments (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2016
Investments, All Other Investments [Abstract] |
Schedule of Carrying Values and Estimated Fair Values of Debt Instruments [Table Text Block] | The carrying amounts and estimated fair values (Level 2) of debt instruments were as follows:
|  | As of September 30, 2016 |  | As of December 31, 2015
|  | Carrying Amount |  | Estimated Fair Value |  | Carrying Amount |  | Estimated Fair Value
Corporate debt |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Short-term debt and current portion of long-term debt | $ | 338 |  |  | $ | 338 |  |  | $ | 26 |  |  | $ | 26 |
| Long-term debt | 3,528 |  |  | 3,593 |  |  | 3,435 |  |  | 3,478 |
Debt under vehicle programs |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Vehicle-backed debt due to Avis Budget Rental Car Funding | $ | 7,134 |  |  | $ | 7,218 |  |  | $ | 6,796 |  |  | $ | 6,836 |
| Vehicle-backed debt | 2,965 |  |  | 2,979 |  |  | 2,060 |  |  | 2,071 |
| Interest rate swaps and interest rate caps (a) | 1 |  |  | 1 |  |  | 4 |  |  | 4 |
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(a) | Derivatives in a liability position.
Schedule of Notional Amounts of Outstanding Derivative Positions | The Company held derivative instruments with absolute notional values as follows:
| As of September 30, 2016
Interest rate caps (a) | $ | 10,152 |
Interest rate swaps | 2,000 |
Foreign exchange contracts | 885 |
Commodity contracts (millions of gallons of unleaded gasoline) | 6 |
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(a) | Represents $7.6 billion of interest rate caps sold, partially offset by approximately $2.6 billion of interest rate caps purchased. These amounts exclude $5.0 billion of interest rate caps purchased by the Company’s Avis Budget Rental Car Funding subsidiary as it is not consolidated by the Company.
Fair Value Of Derivative Instruments | Estimated fair values (Level 2) of derivative instruments were as follows:
|  | As of September 30, 2016 |  | As of December 31, 2015
|  | Fair Value, Asset Derivatives |  | Fair Value, Liability Derivatives |  | Fair Value, Asset Derivatives |  | Fair Value, Liability Derivatives
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Interest rate swaps (a) | $ | — |  |  | $ | 9 |  |  | $ | 1 |  |  | $ | 5 |
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Interest rate caps (b) | 1 |  |  | 1 |  |  | 1 |  |  | 5 |
| Foreign exchange contracts (c) | 5 |  |  | 15 |  |  | 16 |  |  | 2 |
| Commodity contracts (c) | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 1 |
| Total | $ | 6 |  |  | $ | 25 |  |  | $ | 18 |  |  | $ | 13 |
__________ Amounts in this table exclude derivatives issued by Avis Budget Rental Car Funding; however, certain amounts related to the derivatives held by Avis Budget Rental Car Funding are included within accumulated other comprehensive income (loss).
(a) | Included in other non-current assets or other non-current liabilities.
(b) | Included in assets under vehicle programs or liabilities under vehicle programs.
(c) | Included in other current assets or other current liabilities.
Derivative Instruments, Gain (Loss) [Table Text Block] | The effects of derivatives recognized in the Company’s Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements were as follows:
|  | Three Months Ended September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30,
|  | 2016 |  | 2015 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments (a) |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Interest rate swaps | $ | 4 |  |  | $ | (1 | ) |  | $ | (4 | ) |  | $ | (4 | )
| Euro-denominated notes | (3 | ) |  | (1 | ) |  | (11 | ) |  | 25 |
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments (b) |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Interest rate caps (c) | — |  |  | (1 | ) |  | (1 | ) |  | (1 | )
| Foreign exchange contracts (d) | 5 |  |  | 21 |  |  | 17 |  |  | 37 |
| Commodity contracts (e) | — |  |  | (4 | ) |  | — |  |  | — |
| Total | $ | 6 |  |  | $ | 14 |  |  | $ | 1 |  |  | $ | 57 |
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(a) | Recognized, net of tax, as a component of other comprehensive income (loss) within stockholders’ equity.
(b) | Gains (losses) related to derivative instruments are expected to be largely offset by (losses) gains on the underlying exposures being hedged.
(c) | For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016, included in operating expense.
(d) | For the three months ended September 30, 2016, included a $8 million gain in interest expense and a $3 million loss in operating expense and for the nine months ended September 30, 2016, included a $43 million gain in interest expense and a $26 million loss in operating expense. For the three months ended September 30, 2015, included a $19 million gain in interest expense and a $2 million gain in operating expense and for the nine months ended September 30, 2015, included a $21 million gain in interest expense and a $16 million gain in operating expense.
(e) | Included in operating expense.

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