Volvo XC60
★4.7· 14Automatic2.0 L197 hpAWD5 seats
€74per day
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Volvo car rental in Barcelona
Volvo car rental in Barcelona puts one car at your disposal: the Volvo XC60, a five-seat Premium SUV with automatic transmission, all-wheel drive and a 2.0 L, 197 hp mild-hybrid or plug-in hybrid powertrain, from €74 per day. We deliver it to you anywhere in the city — the airport, Sants station, your hotel or a cruise terminal — and the hand-over is agreed with a manager when you book.
What a Volvo car rental in Barcelona gives you on roads
One Volvo sits on this page: the XC60, a Premium-class SUV. It is the model we hand over for Volvo car rental, and it suits both the tight centre and the long run out of town.
Volvo XC60 specs at a glance
| Model | Class | Seats | Fuel | Transmission | Drivetrain | Engine | Power | Price per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volvo XC60 | Premium | 5 | Mild Hybrid / Plug-in Hybrid | Automatic | AWD | 2.0 L | 197 hp | €74 |
Mild Hybrid or Plug-in Hybrid — what it means for the ZBE
The XC60 comes as Mild Hybrid or Plug-in Hybrid, and either version carries a distintivo ambiental — 0 emisiones or ECO — which is exactly what the ZBE Rondes BCN checks at its camera rings. The Zona de Bajas Emisiones Rondes de Barcelona covers more than 95 km²: the whole municipality apart from the Zona Franca industrial estate and the Vallvidrera – el Tibidabo i les Planes neighbourhood, plus L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Sant Adrià de Besòs and parts of Esplugues de Llobregat and Cornellà de Llobregat. It runs on working days, Monday to Friday. Both hybrid badges clear that boundary, so neither version of our XC60 is turned away at the ring. The fuel policy on our cars is lleno a lleno, so plan the return leg with a full tank rather than a full battery.
What 197 hp and AWD do on local roads
Five seats and a boot deep enough for four cabin bags cover a family or two couples travelling together. In our practice, the XC60 gets picked by guests who land at Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport and then leave the city for Sitges, Montserrat or the Penedès wine country within a day or two. If your trip includes the mountains, ask the manager about winter tyres or chains when you book — restrictions there are set point by point, by signs and overhead boards, whenever snow actually falls.
Volvo car rental in Barcelona prices and how longer bookings work
One Volvo is on this page: the XC60, Premium class, at €74 per day. The rate is the same whichever way you book it, and longer periods are counted from that daily figure rather than quoted as a separate tariff.
Daily, weekly and monthly rates for the Volvo XC60
| Period | Rate | How it is calculated |
|---|---|---|
| One day | €74 | Published daily rate |
| One week | €444 | Daily rate × 6 |
| One month | €1,554 | Daily rate × 21 |
A month at €1,554 works out cheaper per day than three separate weeks at €444 each — the multiplier drops from 6 to 21 as the booking lengthens. This page covers one car in one class, so the table above is the whole price list rather than a starting point that rises with the model you pick. If your dates run past a week, ask the manager to price the full stretch in one booking instead of stacking shorter ones.
What the advertised price already includes
The advertised price includes Seguro Obligatorio de Responsabilidad Civil, which Spanish consumer rules require to be inside the quoted figure — so the €74 is not a stripped rate with compulsory cover bolted on afterwards. The deposit, the franquicia and any delivery fee are not part of the daily rate; they are set out in the rental agreement, so read that document before you sign it. That is also where the fuel policy is confirmed, and where the territory your trip is allowed to cover is written down.
Why the weekly and monthly figures are lower per day
Weekly is daily × 6 and monthly is daily × 21, and nothing else changes: the class stays Premium, the car stays the same XC60 with 5 seats and automatic transmission. A single booking therefore beats a chain of short ones, because each separate hire restarts at the €74 day rate and carries its own paperwork. In our experience the travellers who lose money here are the ones splitting a ten-day trip into two bookings to keep each one short — the arithmetic rewards the opposite. Tell the manager the full dates at the start and let the booking run unbroken.
Booking your Volvo rental in Barcelona with a manager
Every Volvo we arrange is agreed with a manager first: dates, the delivery point and the return are confirmed before the car is brought to you. The booking exists only once a person has gone through it with you, and the XC60 is scheduled around the arrival you give.
How the booking is agreed with a manager
- Dates and times: tell the manager when you land, when you leave and how many days you need the XC60 for.
- Delivery point: the address where we bring the car is agreed in the booking, not chosen by you on the spot.
- Return: the place and time you hand the Volvo back are fixed in the same conversation.
- Driver details: whoever will sit behind the wheel is named before the car is delivered.
- Confirmation: the manager confirms the arrangement, and only then is the car scheduled for delivery.
We agree the booking rather than process it automatically, so the hand-over point fits your actual arrival. Tell the manager your flight or train arrival first and build the rest of the plan around it — moving the delivery later is easier than moving a fixed slot earlier.
Self-drive rental — you are the driver
Our Volvo car rental in Barcelona is self-drive: the car is delivered to you and you drive it yourself; the driving is yours from the first kilometre. That is why the booking conversation covers the drivers and not just the vehicle — only people named in the rental agreement may take the wheel, and that includes a partner or a friend who plans to share the driving.
The XC60 is automatic with AWD, so a driver who has never handled a 197 hp SUV will still find it straightforward on the Rondes and the C-16. Add every driver to the booking before the car arrives, because the agreement is drawn up once and changing it afterwards means a new conversation with the manager.
If your plans move, say so as early as you can: dates, the delivery address and the return point are all settled with the manager, and each of them is easier to adjust before the car leaves than after.
Documents and licence for Volvo car rental in Barcelona
Licence and ID requirements for Volvo car rental in Barcelona follow Spanish rules, and the paperwork itself is settled with a manager when you book. What you may drive on depends on where your licence was issued, not on the car you choose.
Which driving licences are valid in Spain
- EU/EEA licences: valid in Spain exactly as issued, including Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, for as long as they have not expired — nothing further is needed, and an IDP is not required.
- Licences from third countries: valid in Spain if the licence is in force, if you are old enough in Spain for the equivalent category, and if no more than six months have passed since you took up ordinary residence in Spain; the DGT advises getting an international driving permit before the trip.
- Licences not written in Spanish: valid either with an official sworn translation into Spanish, or if they were issued to the model of Appendix 9 of the Geneva Convention or Appendix 6 of the Vienna Convention — an IDP is an alternative to the translation.
- Permiso Internacional de Conducción: a supplementary document shown only together with your passport and your national licence; it is valid for 1 year and runs to 16 pages in Spanish, German, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic and Russian.
ID and the booking
Bring the original identity document in the name of the main driver — rental companies ask for this, though the DGT sets no single rule on it. Whether a credit card is required for the deposit, how old you must be to rent and whether a young-driver surcharge applies are not fixed by Spanish law; they are settled with the manager when the booking is agreed, and the deposit, the excess and any delivery fee are set out in the rental agreement. In our practice, the licence question comes up first with non-EU travellers, so have the IDP or the sworn translation ready before you confirm dates.
Renting a Volvo in Barcelona and ZBE parking tolls
The Volvo XC60 carries an environmental badge that lets it into the low-emission zone, and the city charges for kerbside parking by the hour. What follows is what actually matters behind the wheel: the ZBE Rondes BCN boundary, the AREA Blava tariffs and the one tolled tunnel on the way out of town.
The ZBE Rondes BCN and the XC60 badge
It operates on working days, Monday to Friday, and the XC60 is admitted because it carries a distintivo ambiental: the Mild Hybrid or Plug-in Hybrid version qualifies for the 0 emisiones (blue) or ECO (blue-green) badge. Foreign-registered cars need prior registration in the Registre metropolità de vehicles estrangers i altres vehicles autoritzats a les zones de baixes emissions before entering. If your Volvo is on non-Spanish plates, sort that registration out before you collect the car — the badge alone will not cover it.
Parking: AREA Blava rates
- Payment: buy the ticket at the parquímetre and keep the comprovant d'estacionament, because the number on it must match the car's plate.
- Timing: paid AREA hours apply on working days; residential zones are treated differently at weekends.
- The SUV factor: the XC60 is 2.0 L and 197 hp, so it fits a standard bay, but kerbside spaces in Ciutat Vella and Gràcia are tight.
Tolls and the C-16 out of the city
Where we deliver your Volvo rental in Barcelona
We bring the Volvo XC60 to the point you agree when booking — the hand-over address is set with a manager, not picked from a fixed list of desks. Tell us where you land or where you stay, and we build the drop-off around it.
Delivery points we arrange across the city
- Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport: arrivals kerbside, so you load the XC60 and drive off without a shuttle.
- Barcelona Sants railway station: handy if you arrive by train and want the car waiting at street level.
- Port of Barcelona cruise terminals (Moll Adossat): for cruise arrivals who need the car the same day they disembark.
- Fira de Barcelona Gran Via: exhibition and congress visitors who want the SUV parked at the venue gate.
- Barcelona city centre (Ciutat Vella), L'Eixample, Gràcia and Sarrià-Sant Gervasi: hotel or apartment door, arranged in advance.
- Poblenou and the 22@ district: business addresses and long-stay apartments in the tech quarter.
Out-of-town pick-ups and drop-offs
We also agree hand-over outside the city when the trip starts or ends there. Sitges, Montserrat, Costa Brava, Girona, Tarragona and PortAventura, Penedès wine country, Andorra, and The Pyrenees and La Cerdanya are all routes we have pages for, and the meeting point for each is confirmed with the manager before the car moves. Girona–Costa Brava Airport works the same way as the city airport: you name the terminal, we name the time. One practical note from our bookings — if your first day is a transfer day, set the hand-over for after you have dropped your bags, because a 197 hp AWD SUV is easy to load at a hotel door and awkward to leave on a kerb while you check in.
What to have ready at hand-over
The XC60 arrives with a full tank under the lleno a lleno policy, and the return is agreed at the same point or another one you have confirmed with the manager. Any and dents are written into the rental agreement or the inspection sheet before you drive away, both sides sign it, and your copy stays with you. The deposit, the insurance excess and any delivery fee are not part of the daily rate — they are set out in the rental agreement, so read it before you sign.
Insurance and hand-over for Volvo car rental in Barcelona
Every Volvo hire with us carries the cover Spanish law requires, and the hand-over is built around one document: the agreement. We set out what you are responsible for before you drive away, not after.
What is always included
- Cover for unlisted drivers: the compulsory policy still applies even if the person at the wheel was not named in the agreement.
- Damage to others, not to you: it pays third parties, never the driver and never the car itself — that gap is what the optional waivers fill.
Optional protection you can add
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| CDW | Reduces your liability for collision damage, except the franquicia |
| THW | Covers full or partial theft and vandalism, except the franquicia |
| SCDW / SPCDW | Buys down part or all of the collision excess |
| STHW / SPTHW | Buys down part or all of the theft excess |
| WWI | Separate cover for glass and tyres, usually outside basic CDW |
The franquicia is the amount you pay yourself when there is damage, and it is printed in the agreement whether or not you buy an excess waiver. The waivers do not apply if CDW was not taken or if an exclusion in CDW has been triggered.
Checking the car before you drive
Spanish consumer rules require every scratch and dent to be written into the agreement or the inspection sheet before you leave. Both sides sign it and you keep a copy — without that record, damage found later can be charged to you. Photograph the bodywork, wheels and windscreen yourself as a second record.
Fuel and the return
The usual fuel policy in Spain is lleno a lleno: the car is handed over with a full tank and comes back full. The exact terms are set out in the rental agreement.
The deposit, the excess and any delivery fee are not part of the daily rate. They are set out in the agreement, so read those lines before you sign and ask the manager to walk you through them at booking.
Before you drive a Volvo car rental in Barcelona
Before the XC60 reaches you, four things decide how smooth the hand-over goes: what the agreement says, what the tank shows, what you owe for damage, and where the car goes back. Settle them in the booking, not on the pavement with the engine running.
The agreement is the only document that counts
The franquicia, the deposit and any delivery fee are printed in the contract — read it before you sign, because none of those figures sit in the daily rate. CDW, THW, SCDW and WWI are options you add, not things you assume. In our practice, the argument at hand-over is almost never about the car; it is about a number nobody read on page two. Ask the manager to walk you through the franquicia line before you agree the booking, and keep your copy of the condition report with every scratch written into it — the consumer authority requires both sides to sign it before you drive off.
Fuel, return and the tank
- Return timing: the drop-off slot is agreed when booking, so build it around your flight or train rather than the other way round.
- ZBE check: the XC60 carries a distintivo ambiental — 0 emisiones or ECO — which is what the ZBE Rondes BCN camera reads.
What we need from you at hand-over
Bring the original passport and the driving licence of the main driver; the documents the main driver must show are set out in the rental agreement. Anyone else who will take a turn at the wheel has to be named in the agreement first — an unnamed driver is not covered. Settle these four points in the booking with the manager and the hand-over takes minutes.