Opel car rental in Madrid

Our fleet of 7 Opel cars in Madrid covers everything from a €27-a-day Opel Corsa to a €64-a-day Opel Insignia, with weekly bookings from €162 and monthly from €567. We deliver the car to you anywhere in Madrid and agree every detail of the booking with a manager beforehand.

Which Opel models you can rent in Madrid

Seven Opels are on the page, spread across six classes — from a city hatchback at €27 a day to a diesel sedan at €64. One brand covers a solo city trip and a nine-seat group transfer.

The full Opel line-up on this page

The cheapest Opel and the top of the range

The Opel Corsa is the cheapest Opel on this page at €27 a day; the Opel Insignia is the most expensive at €64. Between them sit five more models, and the gap of €37 buys seats and a gearbox rather than distance — every car in the line-up is front-wheel drive and every one is delivered to you the same way. The Corsa is a five-seat petrol hatchback with a 1.2 L engine and a manual gearbox, the smallest and lightest thing in the fleet. The Insignia is a five-seat diesel sedan with a 2.0 L engine, 174 hp and an automatic. In our experience, the Corsa suits a couple or a single driver who parks in the centre, while the Insignia is what people take when a long motorway run is part of the plan. Check the class before the badge: the Corsa and the Astra are both five-seat petrol hatchbacks, but the Astra adds 30 hp and a Comfort trim for €20 a day more.

Seven and nine seats in one Opel line-up

Two Opels on this page carry more than five people: the Opel Zafira with 7 seats at €52 a day and the Opel Vivaro Combi with 9 seats at €48. The nine-seater is the cheaper of the two, which catches people out — a larger group does not automatically pay more. The Zafira is a seven-seat diesel MPV with a 1.6 L engine and a manual gearbox; the Vivaro Combi is a nine-seat diesel passenger van with a 2.0 L engine and a manual gearbox. Both are front-wheel drive and both are delivered to you. What separates them is shape rather than price: the Zafira drives and parks like a large car, while the Vivaro Combi gives every passenger a proper seat and the luggage space that goes with it. Count seats before you count classes — on this page the van class is not the expensive one.

Astra or Astra Sports Tourer, and where the Mokka fits

The Opel Astra is a Comfort hatchback with a manual gearbox at €47 a day; the Opel Astra Sports Tourer is the estate version with an automatic at €57. The Mokka is a five-seat petrol crossover, also at €57, with a manual gearbox and a 1.2 L, 130 hp engine. The Sports Tourer is the only automatic Opel below the Insignia, so it is the practical pick if you want an automatic without stepping up to the sedan. The Mokka shares its price with the estate but not its shape — a raised crossover body with the same five seats and the same front-wheel drive. In our fleet the estate goes to travellers with cases and a longer route, and the Mokka to those who want a higher seating position around town. If an automatic is a must, the choice on this page is narrow: the Astra Sports Tourer or the Insignia.

What Opel car rental in Madrid costs

Rates on this page run from €27 to €64 a day, with weekly bookings from €162 and monthly from €567. What you pay depends on the class and the gearbox, not on the badge on the bonnet.

Daily, weekly and monthly Opel rates

Weekly is charged as six days and monthly as twenty-one, so the rate per day falls as the booking gets longer. That is the only reason a month of the Corsa lands at €567 while thirty separate days would not.

What sits behind the price of an Opel booking

The class and the gearbox move the number most: the manual Economy Corsa starts at €27, the automatic Sedan Insignia at €64. Two Opels share the €57 rate — the Mokka and the Astra Sports Tourer — so at that level you are choosing body shape rather than budget: a raised crossover with a manual gearbox, or a low estate with an automatic. Everything in between follows the same logic. The Vivaro Combi undercuts the Zafira by €4 a day despite carrying nine people instead of seven, and the Astra sits €10 below the Sports Tourer purely on the transmission. In our experience the €37 spread between the cheapest and the dearest Opel rarely decides a booking on its own — it is the seats and the gearbox that settle it. If your plans are still loose, work out the seats first and the price second.

Deposit, excess and delivery fees

The deposit, the insurance excess and any delivery fee are set out in the rental agreement, not in the daily rate above. The same goes for the young-driver surcharge and the cards we accept: both are agreed when booking, before anything is confirmed. What we can say plainly is that the daily figure you see here is the rate for the car and its class, and everything else is put in writing when the booking is agreed with a manager. Ask about the deposit and the excess at that stage — that is the moment to compare the total, not the headline. If you are weighing a week against a month, run both figures against your actual dates before you commit, because the monthly rate only pays off if you genuinely need the car that long.

What changes the figure

• Opel Corsa, Economy: the cheapest way into the line-up at €27 a day, petrol and manual.
• Opel Insignia, Sedan: the top of the range at €64, diesel and automatic.
• Opel Vivaro Combi, Passenger vans: nine seats at €48, €4 below the seven-seat Zafira.
• Opel Astra Sports Tourer and Opel Mokka: both €57, so the automatic estate and the manual crossover cost the same.
• Opel Zafira, Minivans: seven seats at €52, the middle of the range on price and the top on diesel capacity.
• Opel Astra, Comfort: €47 for a five-seat hatchback with a manual gearbox, €10 under the Sports Tourer.

Choosing your Opel car rental in Madrid for city driving

Opel cars differ less in badge than in body: the same 1.2-litre petrol engine sits under the bonnet of the Corsa, the Astra and the Mokka, yet each one suits a different day. Here is how we match a model to the trip you are actually making.

City streets and the tight stuff

• Opel Corsa: 5 seats, 1.2 L, 100 hp, manual, €27 a day — the shortest body on the page and the easiest to slot into a kerbside space in Centro.
• Opel Mokka: crossover, 5 seats, 130 hp, manual, €57 a day — a higher seat and a stiffer ride over the cobbles of the old town.
• Opel Astra: hatchback, 5 seats, 130 hp, manual, €47 a day — more cabin room than the Corsa for the same 5-seat footprint.
• Automatic or nothing: only the Astra Sports Tourer and the Insignia shift for you, and both sit at the top of the range.

Matching the Opel to the journey

The Opel Corsa at €27 a day is the pick for two people moving between the centre, Barrio de Salamanca and Las Tablas — a 1.2-litre petrol manual that parks where a larger car circles the block. The Opel Astra adds 30 hp and a bigger boot for €47, and the Opel Mokka puts you higher for €57 if you want the crossover driving position without a bigger footprint. For a family, the Opel Zafira carries 7 seats at €52 a day, while the Opel Vivaro Combi takes 9 at €48 — the cheaper of the two despite being the longer vehicle. Long motorway runs to Toledo or Segovia suit the Opel Insignia: a 2.0-litre diesel automatic with 174 hp at €64 a day, the only Opel on the page with that combination. In our experience, the estate body of the Astra Sports Tourer is the one travellers underrate — same 130 hp as the hatchback, but a load bay that swallows four cabin bags.

What to check before you choose

• Seats first, class second: the 9-seat Vivaro Combi costs less per day than the 7-seat Zafira, so decide the headcount before the budget.
• Gearbox before body: if you do not drive manual, the Astra Sports Tourer at €57 and the Insignia at €64 are your only two Opels.
• Fuel: the Corsa, Astra, Astra Sports Tourer and Mokka run on petrol; the Zafira, Vivaro Combi and Insignia are diesel.
• Drive: every Opel on this page is front-wheel drive and left-hand drive, so right-hand traffic in Madrid needs no adjustment.

Add the ZBE sticker question to the same conversation — it decides whether a given Opel may enter the city centre at all, and we cover it in the next section.

Opel car rental in Madrid and the ZBE low-emission zone

Every Opel on this page carries a DGT environmental badge, which matters because the ZBE rules apply to all 21 districts of the municipality. Choosing an Opel here therefore comes down to one question: which sticker is on the windscreen, and how does it behave inside the ring roads.

The ZBE rule and what it means for a hired Opel

ZBE Madrid (Zona de Bajas Emisiones de Madrid) covers every urban street of the municipality, and cars without a DGT environmental badge — category A, petrol registered before 2000 and diesel before 2005 — cannot enter. An Opel from our fleet does not fall into that category: the badge travels with the vehicle, not with the driver, so the sticker already on the windscreen is what the enforcement system reads. The practical consequence for a visitor is that the check happens once, at the moment you choose the car, and not street by street as you drive. What we cannot do is hand you a badge separately — it is issued for the vehicle, so the model you book determines your access. If your plans include the city centre, ask before the booking is agreed which Opel you are getting and confirm the badge on it. The line-up on this page runs from the Opel Corsa at €27 a day to the Opel Insignia at €64, and every one of the seven models is badge-carrying.

Foreign plates, registration and the Ordenanza 2/2026 transition

Cars with foreign plates have no DGT sticker and must be registered in advance — a rule that does not touch a Spanish-registered vehicle from our fleet, but does catch anyone planning to drive their own car into the city. The current framework is Ordenanza 2/2026 of 24.03.2026, whose new transitional provision seven took effect from 00:00 on 07.04.2026. For a hired Opel the practical reading is simple: the vehicle is registered where it needs to be, and the driver's job is to keep the badge visible and undamaged. Do not peel it off the glass or cover it with a parking ticket — a badge that cannot be read is treated the same as one that is not there.

Parking inside the zone: what the badge buys you

• SER zona azul (blue): maximum stay of 4 hours on working days between 09:00 and 21:00 and on Saturday between 09:00 and 15:00.
• SER zona verde (green): maximum stay of 2 hours, with priority given to residents of the district.
• Nought-emissions badge: the strongest parking advantage of the four categories, and the reason the badge is worth checking before you book.
• ECO badge: the terms attached to it are set out in the rental agreement, so check them before you drive away.
• Enforcement: the parking meter prints a receipt, and the registration number on it has to match the car.

Ring roads, tolls and where the badge stops mattering

The ring roads — M-30, M-40, M-45 and M-50 — and the radial motorways A-1 to A-6 carry no toll, while the radial R-2, R-3 and R-4 are paid. Speed limits are 120 km/h on autopista and autovía, 90 km/h on a conventional road outside town, and 30 km/h on a city street with one lane in each direction. The badge question fades once you leave the municipality, which is why a day trip out of the city is the easiest way to use an Opel without thinking about zones at all. Fuel on the forecourt averages €1.971 a litre for Gasolina 95 E5 across a sample of 231 stations, with a median of €2.009 — worth knowing before you decide how full to hand the car back.

Practical takeaway for the driver

• Check the badge at hand-over: confirm the sticker is present and legible before you drive away, and raise it immediately if it is not.
• Register nothing yourself: a Spanish-registered vehicle from our fleet does not need the advance registration that foreign plates do.
• Watch the clock in blue and green bays: 4 hours and 2 hours are hard limits, and the meter receipt is the proof that matters.
• Leave the city for a zone-free day: Toledo, Segovia and the Sierra de Guadarrama sit outside the municipality, so the rules above simply stop applying.
• Keep the windscreen clean: a badge obscured by dirt, snow or a flyer is a badge the enforcement system cannot read.

The cleanest way to avoid a ZBE problem in our experience is to settle the badge question while the booking is still being agreed, not at the kerb with the engine running.

Taking a rented Opel outside Madrid

A rented Opel leaves the city as easily as it enters it: Spain's radial motorways A-1 to A-6 start on the edge of the capital, and Toledo, Segovia and Ávila all sit within a day's drive. The toll rings M-30, M-40, M-45 and M-50 are free, so a loop around the city costs nothing. Only the radial toll roads R-2, R-3 and R-4 charge, and they are optional alternatives to the free motorways running beside them. For an Opel Corsa at €27 a day, the fuel bill to Toledo and back is a fraction of the hire itself. Fill up at a gasolinera before you leave the city — fuel is cheaper on the outskirts than at the motorway service areas.

Day trips our customers take most often

• Toledo: 70 km south-west via the A-42, an hour each way, and the Opel Corsa's 1.2-litre engine handles the climb to the old town without complaint.
• Segovia: north-west along the A-6, roughly 90 km, with the aqueduct and the Alcázar as the obvious stops.
• Ávila: 110 km west, the longest of the three, best done with the Opel Astra's 130 hp on the motorway sections.
• San Lorenzo de El Escorial: 50 km north-west, a half-day trip that suits the Opel Mokka if you want the higher seating position.
• Aranjuez and Chinchón: south, 50 km and 45 km respectively, both flat runs on the A-4 and easy on a manual gearbox.
• Sierra de Guadarrama: the mountain roads north of the city, where DGT posts restrictions for cars without winter tyres or chains when snow affects traffic.

What to know before you leave the city

Spain drives on the right and every Opel on this page is left-hand drive, so nothing changes when you leave the urban limits. Speed limits step up outside built-up areas: 120 km/h on autopista and autovía, 90 km/h on a conventional carretera, against 30 km/h on a single-lane city street and 50 km/h where there are two or more lanes in one direction. Speeding fines follow the DGT table and are built on the pair of the posted limit and your actual speed, not on how far over you were — 100 EUR without points at the first step, up to 600 EUR and six points above 81 km/h in a 30 km/h zone. More than 60 km/h over the limit in town, or 80 km/h outside it, turns an administrative fine into a criminal offence. Our advice from practice: set the cruise control on the A-6 and let the motorway do the work.

The Opel Zafira and the Opel Vivaro Combi are the two cars groups ask for on longer runs, since 7 and 9 seats keep everyone in one vehicle rather than a convoy. Tell us at booking that you plan to leave the city and we will agree the details with you before the car is delivered.

Documents and cover for your Opel rental in Madrid

Every driver of an Opel needs a valid licence, an identity document and a credit card in the main driver's name — the rest of the paperwork is agreed with our manager when you book.

Licence rules that apply to every driver

• EU/EEA licences: fully valid in Spain as they stand, as long as they have not expired — no international permit is required.
• Third-country licences: valid for driving as a visitor; residents may use them for no more than six months from the date they take up habitual residence in Spain, after which the licence must be exchanged (canje).
• Non-Latin script licences: valid only if issued in Spanish, accompanied by an official translation, or drawn up to the model of Annex 9 of the Geneva Convention or Annex 6 of the Vienna Convention. In practice that means an international driving permit or a certified translation.
• International driving permit: never valid on its own — it is shown together with the national licence and the passport, and it runs for one year.

Cover, excess and what the agreement sets out

Spanish law puts compulsory third-party cover (Seguro Obligatorio de Responsabilidad Civil) into every hire by default, and it stays in force even if the person behind the wheel was not named in the agreement. The statutory limits are €70,000,000 per incident for personal injury, however many people are hurt, and €15,000,000 per incident for property damage, under Real Decreto Legislativo 8/2004, article 4.2, as amended by Ley 5/2025, with the amounts in force since 26.07.2025. Driving without that cover carries a fine of €601–€3,005 depending on the circumstances.

Above that sits the damage cover you choose. CDW removes your liability for damage to the car itself after a collision with another vehicle or an object, except for the excess; vandalism falls outside it unless it happened while the car was in use. Theft protection works the same way for full or partial theft and for vandalism, again minus the excess. Partial and full excess waivers — SCDW and SPCDW — buy down the amount CDW leaves with you, and they only apply if CDW was taken and no CDW exclusion was triggered. Glass and tyres usually sit outside base CDW and are covered by a separate option.

The excess itself is the sum you pay yourself when damage occurs, printed in the rental agreement whether or not you have bought a waiver. The deposit is a pre-authorisation blocked on the credit card as security for possible damage and extras, and the amount is confirmed before the agreement is signed.

For the Opel line-up on this page, the practical point is simple: the excess and the deposit are set out in the rental agreement, so a €27 Corsa and a €64 Insignia do not carry the same figures. We confirm both, along with the young-driver surcharge and the cards we accept, when your booking is agreed.

How booking an Opel with Rent-Trip works

Booking starts with the dates and the car, not with paperwork. You pick an Opel from the seven on this page, tell us when and where you need it in Madrid, and a manager confirms the details with you before anything is fixed. Nothing is charged at the moment you send the request.

What you send us

• Dates and times: the day you want the car and the day you hand it back, with rough hours for both.
• The model or the class: Opel Corsa at €27 a day, Opel Astra at €47, Opel Vivaro Combi at €48, Opel Zafira at €52, Opel Astra Sports Tourer or Opel Mokka at €57, Opel Insignia at €64.
• Seats you actually need: 5 for the hatchbacks, estate, crossover and sedan, 7 for the Zafira, 9 for the Vivaro Combi.
• Gearbox preference: manual on six of the seven, automatic on the Astra Sports Tourer and the Insignia.
• Where the car should reach you: the address is agreed with the manager when booking.

How the manager confirms it

A manager checks the model against your dates and comes back with what is available, what the total comes to at the daily, weekly or monthly rate, and what the agreement will contain. Weekly is charged as six days and monthly as twenty-one, so if your trip runs past five days it is worth asking for the weekly figure instead of counting days one by one. Delivery and collection are arranged in the same conversation, and the rest of the conditions are set out in the rental agreement rather than quoted over the phone. If the exact Opel you asked for is not free on your dates, the manager tells you which class is open and what it costs before you commit to anything.

Documents to have ready

• Driving licence: an EU or EEA licence is valid in Spain as it stands, and a third-country licence is valid for driving as a visitor. DGT advises getting an international driving permit before the trip.
• Passport or ID: the original document in the name of the main driver.
• Credit card: in the name of the main driver, for the deposit.

The minimum rental age, the young-driver surcharge and the cards accepted are agreed when booking — we do not publish them here as a fixed rule, because they depend on the class and the dates. Ask the manager and you get the answer that applies to your booking, not a general one.

One practical note from our side: the Opel line-up is small — seven cars across six classes — so the automatic Astra Sports Tourer and the Insignia are the first to go on a busy week. If either is the reason you are renting an Opel, send the request early rather than the day before.