Premium car rental in Spain

One step above our Compact class, Premium car rental in Spain starts at €46 a day for the Audi A1 and runs to €110 for the BMW 7 Series — 20 cars in the class, all with 5 seats, automatic or manual, petrol, diesel and hybrid. We deliver the car to you in Madrid or Barcelona, and the booking is agreed with a manager.

What premium car rental in Spain means at Rent-Trip

Premium car rental in Spain at Rent-Trip is a car class of 20 vehicles — Audi, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, DS, Volvo, Lexus and Jaguar — at €46 to €110 per day, five seats each, delivered to you, with the booking agreed with a manager.

Premium as a car class, not a marketing word

Our premium car rental in Spain is a class of 20 cars from Audi, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, DS, Volvo, Lexus and Jaguar, priced from €46 to €110 per day. The band opens with the Audi A1, a 1.0-litre petrol hatchback with 110 hp at €46, and closes with the BMW 7 Series, a 3.0-litre diesel sedan with 286 hp at €110. Between them sit crossovers such as the Audi Q2 and Mercedes-Benz GLA, SUVs including the Audi Q5, BMW X3, Volvo XC60, Lexus NX and Jaguar F-Pace, and sedans like the Mercedes-Benz C-Class, E-Class and Audi A6. Every one of the 20 cars seats five. What holds the class together is not the badge but the mix of body type, gearbox and drivetrain — which is why a hatchback and an SUV can sit in the same price band. Compare the drive, not the nameplate, before you pick: on mountain roads an all-wheel-drive SUV earns its rate faster than a more expensive front-wheel-drive sedan.

Self-drive, delivered, agreed with a manager

You drive the car yourself, we deliver it to you, and every booking is agreed with a manager rather than completed by an automated checkout. That shape of rental suits premium cars in particular: a hand-over point and time, the length of the booking and the conditions around it are settled with a person who knows which of the 20 cars is free on your dates. Self-drive means the car stays with you for the whole booking — no driver, no queue at a desk, no shuttle. What it does not remove is planning: the delivery address, the hand-over time and the return arrangement are the three things worth fixing before you travel, not on the morning of collection. In our practice, bookings confirmed a week ahead get the exact model and the delivery window the client asked for; same-week requests are agreed around whichever premium car is still available.

What the class covers

• 20 premium cars: seven marques across four body types, all five-seat, from €46 to €110 per day.
• Delivery to the client: the car comes to you; the point and time are agreed when booking.
• Manager-agreed booking: dates, model and conditions are confirmed with a manager, not by an instant checkout.
• Weekly and monthly rates: from €276 per week and from €966 per month, calculated from the daily rate at a fixed multiplier.
• Deposit, excess and delivery fees: set out in the rental agreement, not quoted as a figure here.

The premium car rental in Spain fleet, model by model

Twenty cars, seven marques and four body types make up the premium fleet at Rent-Trip — from the Audi A1 hatchback at €46 a day to the BMW 7 Series sedan at €110 a day. Every car seats five, and every one is delivered to you.

Every model, its body type and its daily rate

The rates above are daily. Week and month follow from them by a fixed multiplier, not by a seasonal tariff, so a longer booking never re-prices the car you chose.

Hatchbacks, crossovers, SUVs and sedans

• Hatchback: the Audi A1, Audi A3, Mercedes-Benz A-Class and BMW 1 Series — compact five-seaters for city streets and short hops between Madrid and Toledo.
• Crossover: the Audi Q2, BMW X1 and Mercedes-Benz GLA sit higher than a hatchback but stay easy to park.
• SUV: from the DS DS 7 and Audi Q5 to the Volvo XC60, Lexus NX and Jaguar F-Pace, with all-wheel drive on most.
• Sedan: the Mercedes-Benz C-Class and E-Class, Audi A6 and BMW 7 Series — long-wheelbase comfort for motorway days.

Body type matters more than horsepower here: on the narrow lanes of a historic centre a hatchback beats a 286 hp saloon, while in the mountains the drivetrain decides the drive, not the engine size. If your route mixes both, tell the manager when booking and we will match the car to the trip rather than to the price band.

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

Premium car rental in Spain with Rent-Trip is priced from €46 to €110 per day, and the same cars run from €276 a week and from €966 a month — the longer rate is worked out from the daily one, not from a separate seasonal tariff.

Daily rates across the premium fleet

• Entry point: the Audi A1 at €46 a day — a 1.0-litre petrol hatchback, 110 hp, automatic, front-wheel drive.
• Middle of the range: the Audi A3 at €55, the Mercedes-Benz A-Class at €57 and the BMW X1 at €59, all five-seat automatics.
• Crossovers and hybrids: the DS DS 7 at €62 and the Volvo XC60 at €74, both 5 seats with hybrid power.
• Large SUVs: the Audi Q5 at €70, the BMW X3 at €72 and the Lexus NX at €76, all with all-wheel drive.
• Sedans: the Mercedes-Benz C-Class at €78, the E-Class at €88, the Audi A6 at €93 and the BMW 7 Series at €110.

Weekly and monthly rates on a premium booking

Weekly comes out at the daily rate multiplied by six; monthly at the daily rate multiplied by twenty-one. So the cheapest car on this page — the Audi A1 — is €276 a week and €966 a month, while the Mercedes-Benz A-Class at €57 a day lands at €342 and €1,197. Multiply any other daily figure the same way and you have the longer rate for that model. The multipliers are fixed, which is why a week or a month here does not drift with the season the way a single day can. If your dates are still open, compare the weekly total against your day count before booking — on five days the daily rate usually works out better, and from six days up the weekly rate takes over.

What the rate covers, and what is agreed when booking

Every car on this page seats five, and the daily, weekly and monthly figures are the price of the car itself. The deposit, the insurance excess, delivery and any discount are set out in the rental agreement, and we confirm them with you when the booking is agreed. Delivery is included in how we work: we bring the car to you rather than asking you to collect it, and the hand-over point is fixed together with the manager. Pick-up and drop-off in Madrid or Barcelona are arranged the same way, at the time that suits your arrival.

Choosing your premium car rental in Spain by trip and body type

Match the body to the road you will actually drive, not to the badge on the bonnet. Our 20 cars split into four shapes — hatchback, crossover, SUV and sedan — and each one suits a different kind of Spanish trip. All of them seat five, so the choice comes down to luggage, ride height and drivetrain.

Hatchbacks and crossovers for cities and short hops

• Audi A1, Audi A3, BMW 1 Series, Mercedes-Benz A-Class: the compact end of the fleet, from €46 a day, automatic except the manual Audi Q2 — easiest to park in tight old-town streets.
• Audi Q2 and Mercedes-Benz GLA: crossovers with a raised seat and a taller view over traffic, from €52 and €72 a day, both front-wheel drive.
• Couples and solo travellers: a hatchback swallows two cabin bags and still fits a narrow garage entrance in Madrid or Barcelona.

Pick a hatchback when the trip is a city plus a few day runs. Two of our most requested cars for this pattern are the Audi A3 at €55 a day and the Mercedes-Benz A-Class at €57 — both automatic, both petrol, both easy to thread through one-way streets.

SUVs and sedans for long distances and luggage

• Audi Q5, BMW X3, Volvo XC60, Lexus NX, Jaguar F-Pace, Mercedes-Benz GLC: all-wheel-drive SUVs from €70 to €84 a day, the right pick for mountain roads and four people with full-size cases.
• Mercedes-Benz C-Class, E-Class, Audi A6, BMW 7 Series: rear- or front-wheel-drive sedans from €78 to €110 a day, built for motorway cruising between cities.
• Families of four or five: an SUV gives the boot space a sedan cannot match once you add a pushchair or ski bags.

On the long motorway runs the sedan wins on comfort and fuel, while the SUV pays you back on gravel car parks and steep village streets. If your route mixes both, the BMW X1 at €59 a day is the compromise — hybrid petrol, automatic, and available with all-wheel drive.

Whatever you choose, tell the manager what the trip looks like when you book.

Engines, drivetrains and gearboxes across our premium car rental in Spain fleet

Under the bonnets of the 20 cars sits a narrow band of small-capacity turbocharged engines — 1.0 to 3.0 litres, 110 to 286 hp — paired mostly with automatic gearboxes and a clear split between front-wheel drive for city cars and all-wheel drive for the SUVs.

Petrol, diesel and hybrid: what actually powers the fleet

• Petrol (1.0–1.5 L): Audi A1, Audi Q2, Audi A3, Mercedes-Benz A-Class, BMW 1 Series and Mercedes-Benz GLA — 110 to 163 hp, the lightest and cheapest group at €46–€72 a day.
• Petrol/hybrid and mild hybrid: BMW X1 pairs a 1.5 L petrol engine with electric assistance, while Audi Q5, BMW X3, Jaguar F-Pace and Volvo XC60 use mild hybrid diesel — the electric motor only assists, it does not drive the car alone.
• Full hybrid: DS DS 7 and Lexus NX run on Hybrid; the NX is the most powerful non-diesel in the fleet at 244 hp.
• Plug-in hybrid: Volvo XC60 combines a 2.0 L mild hybrid system with plug-in capability, so it can cover short urban stretches on electricity.
• Diesel (2.0–3.0 L): Mercedes-Benz C-Class, E-Class, GLC, Audi A6 and BMW 7 Series — 197 to 286 hp, the group built for long motorway days.

Diesel dominates the upper half of our premium range because it suits the distances involved: Madrid to Barcelona is roughly 620 km each way, and a 2.0 L diesel sedan holds its fuel figure far steadier at 120 km/h than a small petrol hatchback. On a week-long booking that difference shows up at every fill, which is why we steer longer itineraries towards the C-Class or A6 rather than a cheaper A3.

Gearboxes and drivetrains

Nineteen of the 20 cars are automatic. The single exception is the Audi Q2 at €52 a day, which comes with a manual gearbox — worth knowing if you have only ever driven automatic and are booking the cheapest crossover in the fleet. Manual remains the baseline in the Spanish market, so a manual car is not a downgrade here; it is simply the one model where we hold that configuration.

Drivetrain splits the fleet into two clear halves. Front-wheel drive covers the A1, Q2, A3, A-Class, 1 Series, GLA, DS 7 and A6 — predictable, lighter on fuel, and easier to park in tight city garages. All-wheel drive appears on the Q5 with its quattro system, the X3, XC60, NX and F-Pace, while the C-Class and E-Class send power to the rear and the GLC uses an all-wheel setup. If your route includes mountain roads, the drivetrain matters more than the badge: an all-wheel-drive X3 at €72 a day handles a wet Pyrenean pass with more confidence than a more expensive rear-wheel-drive sedan.

What this means when you choose

Power figures on this page run from 110 hp in the A1 to 286 hp in the BMW 7 Series, but on Spanish roads the useful number is rarely the horsepower. Speed limits are 120 km/h on autopista and autovía, 90 km/h on ordinary country roads, and 30 km/h on most single-lane city streets, so a 150 hp A3 and a 204 hp A6 cover the same legal ground. Pick on gearbox, drivetrain and fuel instead — automatic for traffic, all-wheel drive for mountains, diesel for distance. Everything else is settled when you book with a manager.

Documents, cover and rules for premium car rental in Spain

A premium car rental in Spain car comes with the same legal floor as any other hire car in the country, and the paperwork around it is where most of the friction sits. Below is what the Spanish rules actually say, and what is simply agreed when you book with us.

Documents the driver needs

• EU/EEA licences: valid here exactly as issued, for as long as they have not expired, with no international permit required.
• Third-country licences: accepted while they remain valid, provided the holder is old enough for the equivalent Spanish category and has not held ordinary residence in the country for more than six months.
• Licences not in Spanish: valid either with an official certified translation into Spanish or if issued to the model of Annex 9 of the Geneva Convention or Annex 6 of the Vienna Convention.
• International Driving Permit: a supporting document only — presented together with the passport and the national licence, valid for one year.
• Passport or ID: the original in the main driver's name.

Age, driving experience and the card taken for the deposit are not Spanish law — they are agreed when booking.

What Spanish law puts behind the wheel

Every legally roadworthy car here carries Seguro Obligatorio de Responsabilidad Civil, and by Spanish law it sits inside any hire, covering harm to third parties at limits of 70,000,000 EUR per incident for personal injury and 15,000,000 EUR for property. It does not cover the driver or the car itself. Beyond that legal floor, CDW, THW, SCDW, SPCDW, STHW, SPTHW and WWI are options offered by the company, and the excess — the franquicia — is printed in the agreement whether or not you buy it out. The excess line is set out in the rental agreement, and the options that sit above the legal floor are agreed when booking.

Parking, tolls and who answers for what

Under Spanish rules, responsibility for parking fines and unpaid tolls falls on the owner or the renter of the car, while offences involving driving, alcohol or drugs fall on whoever was behind the wheel. If the offence was not handed over on the spot, the owner or renter answers until it is established who was driving. Speed limits run from 120 km/h on autopista and autovía down to 30 km/h on a single-lane street in town and 20 km/h on a shared-platform street, and a speeding fine under the DGT table is 100–600 EUR with up to six points. Mobile phone use in the hand is 200 EUR and six points. In Madrid and Barcelona the low-emission zones are marked by the distintivo ambiental on the windscreen. The environmental badge, the fuel policy and the territory you may drive in are agreed when booking.

Booking premium car rental in Spain with a manager

Booking premium car rental in Spain with Rent-Trip runs through a manager, not an automated checkout: you tell us the dates, the city and the car you want, and we confirm the details with you before anything is fixed.

What the manager settles with you

• Dates and hand-over point: the day and time the car reaches you, and the address you want it delivered to.
• Car and class: which of the 20 premium models fits your trip, and whether a specific model matters to you.
• Deposit and excess: the amounts for your chosen car, set out in the rental agreement.
• Documents: what the main driver needs to have ready, agreed when booking.
• Extras: anything beyond the car itself — each confirmed in advance and set out in the rental agreement.

Why the booking is agreed rather than automatic

A premium car is a specific vehicle, not a category code, so the manager checks that the model you asked for is the one you get. Our fleet holds 20 cars from €46 to €110 per day, and a single model can be the only one of its kind on the list — the Audi A6 at €93, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class at €88, the BMW 7 Series at €110. When you book through a manager, we can tell you straight away whether that car is free on your dates or whether a close alternative is the honest answer. In our practice, most changes to a premium booking come from the dates moving, not from the car.

Where we deliver, and what to have ready

We deliver the car to you, so the hand-over point is part of the booking conversation rather than a fixed address. Name the hotel, the apartment or another spot when you book, and we agree the time with you — in Madrid and Barcelona that is the usual arrangement, and it saves you a trip to collect anything. Have the main driver's documents ready for the hand-over, and check the car over before you drive off: the consumer authority in Spain requires every scratch and dent to be written into the agreement or the inspection sheet before you leave, signed by both sides, with a copy for you. Without that record, damage found later is charged to the driver.

If your plans change

Tell the manager as early as you can. Dates, the delivery point and the model are all easier to move before the car is on its way to you, and any change to the agreement is confirmed in writing at the time.

What to settle before driving your premium car rental in Spain

Two things decide whether a premium booking runs smoothly: the paperwork you hold and the terms you agreed before the keys changed hands. Neither is complicated, but both are worth five quiet minutes on the day you book, not on the day you drive.

Documents the driver must hold

• Licence from the EU, EEA, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway: fully valid here while it has not expired, and no international permit is needed alongside it.
• Licence from a third country: valid for driving if it is in force and the holder is old enough for the equivalent Spanish category. Once you take up ordinary residence here, that licence stops being enough after six months.
• Licence not written in Spanish: accepted either with an official sworn translation into Spanish, or if it was issued on the Appendix 9 Geneva or Appendix 6 Vienna model. An International Driving Permit is the practical alternative to a translation.
• Permiso Internacional de Conducción: a supplementary document only — it is shown together with your passport and your national licence, never on its own, and it runs for one year.
• Identity document: the original in the name of the main driver.

What the rental agreement carries

Under Spanish law every car on the road carries Seguro Obligatorio de Responsabilidad Civil, and it applies even if the person driving was not named in the agreement. It covers injury and damage to third parties — not the driver, and not the car. The legal limits are 70,000,000 EUR per incident for personal injury and 15,000,000 EUR per incident for property damage, set by Real Decreto Legislativo 8/2004, article 4.2 as amended by Ley 5/2025, in force since 26.07.2025. Beyond that compulsory layer, the agreement sets out the CDW, the franquicia, the deposit preautorización on the card, the fuel policy and the territory the car may be driven in. We do not quote those as figures here, because they are printed in the agreement itself. Ask for the deposit amount and the excess before you sign, not after — that is the single question that prevents most disputes at hand-over.

Inspect, then drive

Consumer rules require every scratch and dent to be written into the agreement or the inspection sheet before the car leaves, signed by both sides, with a copy kept by the renter; otherwise the damage is charged to you. If the model you booked is not available, you may ask for another car at no extra cost, even a class above; if you are given a lower class, the price should come down. Where the car does not match the agreed terms — automatic gearbox, four doors — the terms of the booking are set out in the rental agreement. Rent-Trip delivers the car to you in Madrid, Barcelona or elsewhere in the country, and the hand-over point and time are agreed when booking.