Premium car rental in Spain

One step above the compact class, premium car rental in Spain puts 45 cars in your hands from €46 a day — Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Lexus and Jaguar, with weekly bookings from €276 and monthly from €966. We deliver the car to any address in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and the Costa Brava towns we cover, and the delivery address, date and time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed.

What premium car rental in Spain means at Rent-Trip

Premium here is a class of car and a way of handing it over, not a price tag on its own. At Rent-Trip, the premium band runs on 45 cars from €46 to €110 per day, and every one of them is delivered to the address you give us with a full tank and a clean body.

Where premium ends and luxury begins

Our 45 cars sit in the premium band — Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Lexus, Jaguar, Alfa Romeo, Mini and DS — not the luxury tier. Engine sizes across the list run from 1.0 L to 3.0 L and output from 110 hp to 286 hp, which covers a compact Audi A1 at €46 per day and a Mercedes-Benz E-Class at €88.

Automatic by default, manual in one model

The Q2 is a 1.0 L petrol crossover with 116 hp, front-wheel drive and five seats at €52 per day, and it is the only model on this page that asks you to work the gears yourself. The remaining 44 cars — from the Audi A1 and A3 through the BMW 1 Series and X1 to the Mercedes-Benz GLC and Jaguar F-Pace — shift for you. If you have only ever driven automatic, the Q2 is the one model to avoid when you pick from the list, since the rest need no gear work in city traffic. The same rule holds for the AWD cars: quattro on the Audi Q5, all-wheel drive on the Volvo XC60, Lexus NX and Alfa Romeo Stelvio all come with automatic as standard.

What the price already covers

• Full tank on hand-over: the car arrives with a full tank and comes back full — in Spain this is called lleno-lleno, and any missing fuel plus a refuelling fee is charged as set out in the rental agreement.
• Delivery to your address: in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and the Costa Brava towns we cover, the car comes to the address you agree with a manager.
• Booking fixed by a manager: the delivery address, date and time are confirmed with a manager before the booking is fixed, not left to an app.

Fleet of premium car rental in Spain with models and specs

Our 45 premium cars split into four body types, and the right pick follows the route rather than the price tag. Every model below is delivered clean and with a full tank.

Engines run from 1.0 L and 110 hp in the Audi A1 to 3.0 L and 286 hp in the BMW 7 Series, and drivetrains range from front-wheel through rear-wheel to quattro and all-wheel drive. Automatic transmission is standard across the fleet; the Audi Q2 is the one manual model, so drivers who have never worked a clutch should skip it.

Costs of premium car rental in Spain per day, week and month

Premium car rental in Spain at Rent-Trip runs from €46 to €110 per day, with 45 cars in the band. A week starts at €276, a month at €966.

What the daily rate buys

The cheapest way into the class is an Audi A1 at €46 per day — 1.0 L, 110 hp, automatic, five seats. Audi A3, BMW 1 Series and Mercedes-Benz A-Class land between €55 and €58, and the Mini Countryman with a 2.0 L diesel sits at €55. Crossovers and SUVs climb from €52 for the Audi Q2 to €95 for the Audi Q5 on the Costa Brava and the Range Rover Velar.

• Monthly rate: twenty-one times the daily price — from €966 for the same car.

Why the same model costs different money

The Audi A1 is €46 in Barcelona and €51 in Valencia, and the Mercedes-Benz A-Class runs from €57 in Barcelona to €65 on the Costa Brava.

What is not in the daily rate

The deposit, the insurance excess, delivery fees and any discount are set out in the rental agreement, not on this page.

How delivery works for premium car rental in Spain

Premium car rental in Spain with Rent-Trip works differently from a rental desk: the car comes to you. We hand over 45 premium cars at any address in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia or the Costa Brava, and the delivery address, date and time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed.

What the manager agrees with you before the booking is fixed

• Address: the exact street or hotel where the car should be waiting — any address in the four areas we cover, not a pick-up point you have to reach yourself.
• Date and time: the slot you actually need, agreed in advance, so the hand-over happens when your flight lands or your meeting ends.

Where we deliver premium cars

Delivery outside Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and the Costa Brava is arranged case by case and is not promised on the site — if your route starts somewhere else, raise it with the manager and we will tell you honestly whether it can be done.

Rules for driving a premium rental car in Spain

The same traffic law applies to a premium vehicle as to any other car on Spanish roads. Three things decide whether your trip runs smoothly: the licence you hold, the insurance cover built into the booking, and the fuel rule at hand-over.

Licence rules for premium car hire in Spain

An EU or EEA driving licence is valid here until it expires, with no international permit needed. A licence from outside the EU or EEA is valid for driving while it is in force, and for six months from the date you take up ordinary residence. If your licence is not in Spanish, it is accepted with an official certified translation, or if it was issued on the Annex 9 Geneva or Annex 6 Vienna model. The Permiso Internacional de Conducción is a supplementary document — it is shown only together with your passport and your national licence, and it runs for one year.

What the insurance on a premium car covers

• Seguro Obligatorio de Responsabilidad Civil: third-party cover that comes with every booking by Spanish law and applies even if the driver was not named in the agreement.
• Limits: €70,000,000 per incident for personal injury and €15,000,000 per incident for property damage, under Real Decreto Legislativo 8/2004, article 4.2, as amended by Ley 5/2025, in force since 26 July.
• CDW (Collision Damage Waiver): an optional waiver of your liability for damage to the car itself, excluding the excess.
• THW (Theft Protection): covers full or partial theft and vandalism damage, again above the excess.

The excess is printed in the rental agreement whatever cover you choose, and the deposit is agreed when you book.

Fuel and road rules on Spanish roads

Every car we hand over in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia or the Costa Brava comes clean and with a full tank, and it goes back full — lleno a lleno. Miss that and the missing fuel plus a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement; no pre-paid tank option exists on this page. Speed limits are 120 km/h on autopista and autovía, 90 km/h on ordinary rural roads, and 20, 30 or 50 km/h in town depending on the street layout.

Trips with premium car rental in Spain for families and couples

The trip decides the car, not the other way round. A couple covering the coast for a weekend, a family of five with two suitcases and a pushchair, and a driver heading from Madrid to the Pyrenees and back are three different briefs, and the 45 cars on this page answer each of them differently.

What to pick for a family of five

44 of the 45 cars on this page seat five; the Volvo XC90 at €90 a day in Valencia seats seven.

What to pick for a long route

The Volvo XC60 at €74 per day pairs AWD with a mild-hybrid plug-in drivetrain, and the Lexus NX at €76 per day brings a 2.5 L, 244 hp hybrid with all-wheel drive.

What we ask before we confirm

Tell the manager how many people are travelling, how much luggage there is and whether the route leaves the mainland coast. Our delivery covers any address in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and the Costa Brava towns we have a page for, and the delivery address, date and time are agreed before the booking is fixed. Delivery outside those areas is arranged case by case and is not promised. The car arrives clean with a full tank and must go back full — full-to-full, lleno-lleno — or the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement.

Booking premium car rental in Spain with a manager

Booking premium car rental in Spain with Rent-Trip runs through a manager, not an instant checkout: you name the car, the dates and the delivery address, and we confirm what is actually free before the booking is fixed.

What the manager fixes before your booking

• Car and class: you pick from the 45 premium cars on this page, from the Audi A1 at €46 per day to the BMW 7 Series at €110 per day, and the manager confirms which unit is available for your dates.
• Delivery address, date and time: the exact street, the day and the hour are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed, and the car reaches you with a full tank.
• Length of hire: daily, weekly from €276 or monthly from €966, calculated as daily x 6 for a week and daily x 21 for a month.

What to have ready

Documents and payment are settled when you book, so bring the questions rather than the paperwork: which licence you hold, how many drivers will be behind the wheel and whether the route crosses into another country are all things the manager needs to know in advance. The minimum rental age, the young-driver surcharge, the cards accepted and the territory limit are agreed when booking — none of them is a fixed rule of Spain, so ask rather than assume.

Luggage and seats matter: 44 of the 45 cars here seat five, and the Volvo XC90 seats seven; say at booking which one you need.

What to check before you confirm premium car rental in Spain

Before you confirm premium car rental in Spain, four things decide whether the booking runs smoothly: the licence you hold, the car class that matches your route, the delivery address agreed with a manager, and the fuel rule on return. None of them are complicated, but each is easier to fix before the booking is fixed than after.

Documents and licence

• EU/EEA licence: valid here as it stands until its expiry date, with nothing additional required and no international permit needed.
• Licence from outside the EU/EEA: valid for driving as a visitor while it is in force and you are within six months of taking up ordinary residence in the country; the DGT advises getting an international driving permit before the trip.
• Licence not in Spanish: accepted either with an official certified translation into Spanish or if it was issued on the Appendix 9 Geneva or Appendix 6 Vienna model; for Cyrillic, Arabic or character-based scripts this in practice means an international permit or a certified translation.
• International driving permit: valid for one year and shown only together with your passport and national licence, never on its own.

Car class, delivery and return

Match the body type to the route rather than to the price. 44 of the 45 cars on this page seat five, the Volvo XC90 seats seven, and automatic transmission across the range except the Audi Q2.

Fuel and what to settle at booking

We hand the car over clean and with a full tank, and it comes back full — the full-to-full rule, lleno-lleno in Spanish. Refuel before the last stretch rather than at the drop-off point.