Citroen Ami, Economy
★4.4· 69Automatic5.5 kWh8 hpFront-wheel2 seats
€29per day
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Sedat ÖnalanLimousine driver
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We bring the car to you anywhere in Paris and agree every detail with a manager when you book. Choose from Economy, Electric, Commercial and Crossover classes — from a two-seat Citroen Ami to a five-seat Opel Crossland.
What Daily Car Rental in Paris Costs and Which Class Fits Your Day
Daily rates with Rent-Trip run from €29 to €76 per day across four classes, with 24 cars on this page. Longer bookings are priced at weekly from €174 and monthly from €609.
Daily rates by class
| Class | Cars | From per day | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economy | 15 | €29 | 2, 4, 5 |
| Electric | 4 | €55 | 4, 5 |
| Commercial | 3 | €47 | 2, 3 |
| Crossover | 2 | €75 | 5 |
Weekly and monthly rates for longer bookings
A week starts at €174 and a month at €609, so the longer you keep the car, the lower the cost of each driving day. Those totals follow a simple rule: weekly is the daily rate multiplied by six, monthly by twenty-one. On our side, the two-seat Citroen Ami at €29 carries one passenger and a bag, while a five-seat Economy car at €39 costs €10 more and moves a family. Compare the total against the number of days you will actually drive before you extend a booking, because a parked car billed by the month is the one cost no class can fix.
What the class choice changes
- Economy: 15 cars from €29, the widest choice of seats, fuels and gearboxes on the page.
- Electric: 4 cars from €55, all automatic.
- Commercial: 3 panel vans from €47, built for loads rather than passengers.
- Crossover: 2 cars from €75, the top of the range on this page and the only class with no entry below €75.
- Seats: the fleet spans 2, 3, 4 and 5 seats, so passenger count decides the class faster than budget does.
Choosing a Car for One Day of Renting in Paris
Twenty-four cars sit behind this page, from a two-seat microcar to a three-seat panel van, and the choice usually comes down to three things: how many people travel, whether you can drive a manual, and how much luggage or cargo moves with you.
Small automatic cars for a day in the city
- Citroen Ami: 2 seats, Electric, Automatic, 8 hp, 5.5 kWh — €29 per day, the cheapest way to move one person.
- Renault Zoe: 5 seats, Electric, Automatic, 136 hp, 52 kWh — €55 per day.
- Fiat 500e: 4 seats, Electric, Automatic, 118 hp, 42 kWh — €59 per day.
- Renault 5 E-Tech: 5 seats, Electric, Automatic, 150 hp, 52 kWh — €69 per day.
- Opel Mokka Electric: 5 seats, Electric, Automatic, 156 hp, 54 kWh — €75 per day, a crossover body on an automatic drivetrain.
Vans and larger cars for a single day
- Volkswagen Caddy Cargo: 2 seats, Diesel, Manual, 102 hp, 2.0 L — €47 per day, the cheapest commercial option for a flat move or a market run.
- Ford Transit Connect: 2 seats, Diesel, Manual, 100 hp, 1.5 L — €55 per day.
- Renault Master: 3 seats, Diesel, Manual, 150 hp, 2.3 L — €75 per day, the largest van here and the only commercial with three seats.
- Jeep Avenger: 5 seats, Gasoline, Automatic, 100 hp, 1.2 L — €75 per day, for a day of mixed city and motorway driving.
- Opel Crossland: 5 seats, Gasoline, Manual, 110 hp, 1.2 L — €76 per day, the top of the range on this page.
Prices by class for a single day
| Class | Cars | From per day | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economy | 15 | €29 | 2–5 |
| Commercial | 3 | €47 | 2–3 |
| Electric | 4 | €55 | 4–5 |
| Crossover | 2 | €75 | 5 |
Match the seat count to the number of people before you look at the price.
How Renting a Car by the Day Works with Rent-Trip
Daily car hire with us runs on one simple rule: nothing is confirmed until a manager has agreed it with you. There is no counter to queue at and no self-service checkout — you send a request, we discuss the dates, the class and the delivery point, and only then does the car go out.
Booking a daily rental with a manager
Every daily booking is agreed with a manager before the car is delivered. You tell us the day you need, the class you want and where you will be, and we confirm what is actually available in the 24-car fleet — Economy, Electric, Commercial or Crossover. Rates start at €29 per day and run to €76, so the conversation usually settles the class first and the address second. Confirm your dates, the class and the delivery point in that conversation — everything the hand-over depends on is fixed there and nowhere else.
Delivery of the car to you
We deliver the self-drive car to you, so a one-day booking does not start at a rental counter. Because the vehicle comes to you rather than sitting in a lot, the first hour of your booking is driving time, not queueing time.
- Request: send the date, the class and the delivery point; we check the fleet and come back with what fits.
- Agreement: deposit, excess, delivery fee and signing arrangements are set out in the rental agreement — never a figure quoted over the phone.
Driving a Daily Rental Inside the Paris Low-Emission Zone
The ZFE de la Métropole du Grand Paris (Zone à Faibles Émissions) is the low-emission zone every daily hire car is checked against. It covers the area inside the A86 motorway — the A86 itself is excluded — and includes the boulevard périphérique together with the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes. Crit'Air 5, Crit'Air 4, Crit'Air 3 and «Non classé» vehicles are banned inside that perimeter, so the class of your car matters before you drive a single kilometre.
The Crit'Air sticker and the ZFE perimeter
- Crit'Air vignette: the emissions sticker that goes on the windscreen; without one, entry into the ZFE is formally prohibited, even in a car that would otherwise be allowed.
- ZFE perimeter: inside the A86 ring, the boulevard périphérique included; the A86 motorway itself sits outside the zone.
- Banned classes: Crit'Air 5, Crit'Air 4, Crit'Air 3 and «Non classé» vehicles — the restrictions tighten over time, so check your class before a day of driving.
- Where to check: your car's Crit'Air class is fixed by its first registration date and fuel type, and the sticker is issued per vehicle, not per driver.
Boulevard périphérique and the covoiturage lane
The boulevard périphérique runs at 50 km/h since 1 October 2024, a decision of the municipal authority; the Code de la route would otherwise permit up to 70 km/h on it. The change was introduced in stages — on 1 October 2024 the inner ring from porte des Lilas to porte d'Orléans, and by 10 October the whole périphérique. One more rule catches drivers by surprise: the left lane between the Issy embankment and porte de Bercy, in both directions, is reserved for covoiturage on weekdays from 7:00 to 10:30 and from 16:00 to 20:00, for vehicles carrying two or more people. A violation is a contravention of the 4th class at €135, and enforcement began on 2 May 2025 — the lane experiment itself started on 3 March 2025. A daily hire with two passengers in the car qualifies for that lane; a solo driver does not.
Mountain winter rules that do not apply here
Winter tyres are compulsory from 1 November to 31 March in roughly 34 mountain departments — the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Massif Central, the Jura, the Vosges and Corsica — across more than 4,000 communes designated by prefects, where a car needs either four winter tyres or chains and snow socks on two driven wheels. Île-de-France is not in that list, so the requirement does not apply to a daily hire handed over here. It does apply the moment a one-day trip heads for the Alps: driving without them is a €135 fine plus immobilisation of the car.
Parking, Tolls and Fuel on a One-Day Rental in Paris
A single day of driving here is shaped less by distance than by where you leave the car and how you pay for the road.
Street parking in the central arrondissements
On-street parking in zone 1 — arrondissements 1 to 11 — is charged progressively, not by the hour: 1 hour costs €6, 2 hours €12, 3 hours €24, 4 hours €39, 5 hours €57 and 6 hours €75. The maximum continuous stay at one spot is 6 hours, and the tariff is split into 15-minute blocks. This visiteur rate has applied since 01.08.2021. For a day trip the practical reading is simple: two short stops of an hour each cost €12, while leaving the car for a full working day approaches the price of the booking itself.
Tolls: the Duplex A86 and free-flow payment
- Duplex A86: the underground tunnel between Rueil-Malmaison, Vaucresson and Vélizy, roughly 10 km, operated by Cofiroute/Vinci.
- Class 1 tariff: Rueil to Vélizy costs €8.30–€13.70 Monday to Thursday depending on the hour, and up to €14.90 on Fridays and the eve of public holidays.
- Péage en flux libre: barrier-free tolling on the A13 and A14, where payment is due within 72 hours.
- Badge Liber-t: the electronic transponder used for péage, if the car carries one.
- City streets and the boulevard périphérique: no toll at all.
Fuel and the fill-level policy
Diesel (Gazole) averages €2.414 per litre across France and €2.44 in the Paris department, measured from the API data.economie.gouv.fr instant feed across 9,803 stations nationally and 48 in the department. The main petrol, SP95-E10, sits at €2.183 per litre nationally. One more thing worth knowing: a forfait post-stationnement of €75 or €50 for light vehicles applies to unpaid parking, and it is a parking charge rather than a driving penalty.
Documents, Insurance and the Deposit for Daily Car Hire in Paris
Paperwork decides whether a one-day booking goes ahead, so it is worth sorting before the car is delivered. French rules on licences are specific, and the deposit and excess sit in the rental agreement rather than on a price list.
Licence rules for driving in France
An EU/EEA licence is valid in France with no time limit and does not need exchanging while it stays valid. A visitor from outside the EU/EEA may drive on a national licence; if that licence is not in Latin characters, an official translation or an International Driving Permit is required alongside it — an IDP is only a translation and never replaces the licence itself. Anyone resident outside the EU/EEA may drive for 1 year from the entry date shown in the visa, and on settling in France the licence must be exchanged. To hire, the licence must have been issued more than 1 year ago, and digital licences are not accepted by companies. An IDP used for hire must be no older than 3 years. Minimum age, the young-driver surcharge, and the card and passport requirement are set by each company — there is no single national norm.
Insurance included in a French rental
Responsabilité civile is compulsory by law and comes with every booking automatically, covering injury and property damage caused to third parties within the country's legal limits; injuries to the driver are not covered. CDW is included in the basic package of French companies and caps the renter's liability at the excess, covering repair and vehicle downtime. TW is likewise included in the basic package, covering theft, attempted theft and vandalism in a car park, again up to the excess. The excess is a fixed sum the renter pays personally after damage or theft, and it is not reducible by time; its level depends on the protection tier chosen. Basic cover excludes tyres damaged by abnormal use, glass except in a collision, sunroof and panoramic roof, underbody, filling with the wrong fuel and the resulting engine damage, lost or stolen keys, and damage from negligence or intent. Visa Premier and Gold Mastercard often cover the CDW/TW excess where the booking was paid with that card and the holder is the main driver under the agreement.
What to confirm when booking
- Deposit (caution / dépôt de garantie): blocked on a card for the duration of the booking and released when the keys come back — the amount is set out in the agreement.
- Excess (franchise): the fixed sum you pay yourself after damage or theft; the figure for your class is stated in the agreement.
- Additional driver (conducteur supplémentaire): a paid option added at booking, with the terms set out in the agreement.
With Rent-Trip, every daily car rental in Paris is agreed with a manager, and the licence, deposit and protection tier are confirmed in that conversation before the self-drive car is delivered to you.
One-Day Trips from Paris by Rental Car
Day-trip destinations and driving times
- Disneyland Paris: 32 km east via the A4.
- Versailles: 20 km south-west via the A13.
- Deauville and the Normandy coast: 200 km west via the A13; the A13 and A14 run in péage en flux libre, so tolls are paid within 72 hours rather than at a barrier.
- Mont-Saint-Michel: 360 km west, close to 4 hours each way — realistic only as a very long day or with an overnight stop.
What to watch on the way out and back
Winter tyres are compulsory from 1 November to 31 March in roughly 34 mountain departments — the Alps, Pyrenees, Massif Central, Jura, Vosges and Corsica — covering more than 4,000 communes by prefectural decision, either four winter tyres or chains and socks on two driven wheels. The capital and the Île-de-France are not included, so a car collected here carries no such requirement, but the rule applies the moment an Alpine trip is on the plan. The fine is 135 € and the vehicle can be immobilised. On the motorway in rain the limit drops to 110 km/h, and to 100 km/h on a divided road, so an early start also buys you a calmer drive home.
Practical Takeaways for Daily Car Rental in Paris
Daily car rental in Paris comes down to four decisions: which class you book, how many days you actually need, whether your route stays inside the A86 ring, and where the car is handed over. Get those right and a single day of driving costs between €29 and €76 with no surprises.
- Book the class, not the price: the Citroen Ami at €29 seats 2, but a 5-seat Economy car at €39 carries a family — a €10 difference decides whether one trip replaces two.
- Count your driving days before extending: a week starts at €174 (daily × 6) and a month at €609 (daily × 21), so extending only pays off if you genuinely drive on those days.
- Check your Crit'Air class first: the ZFE de la Métropole du Grand Paris bans Crit'Air 5, 4, 3 and «Non classé» vehicles inside the A86, and the sticker must sit on the windscreen.
- Choose the hand-over point when booking: we deliver the car to you, and the exact time and place are agreed with a manager in that same conversation.
- Budget for parking separately: street parking in zones 1–11 runs €6 for the first hour and €75 for six, the maximum stay at one spot.
- Leave the deposit and excess to the agreement: franchise, caution and any protection upgrade are set out in the rental agreement, not quoted in advance.
If your day involves a longer run, remember that winter tyres are compulsory from 1 November to 31 March in roughly 34 mountain departments — Paris and Île-de-France are not among them, but an Alpine trip is a different matter.