Convertibles car rental in London

Looking for convertible car rental in London? We run a fleet of 8 convertibles — from the Audi A3 Cabriolet at £80 a day to the Aston Martin DB11 Volante at £987 — with weekly rates from £480 and monthly from £1,680. Every car is delivered to any address locally, including Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, London City and Southend.

What convertibles car rental in London includes

Convertibles car rental in London covers the fleet itself and how the car reaches you: eight open-top models, what separates them, and where we hand them over across the capital and its airports.

Eight open-top models and six brands in one fleet

Rent-Trip keeps 8 convertibles from 6 brands, all petrol and automatic. Four cars seat two and four seat four — the seat count, not the badge, decides whether a weekend trip works.

• Audi A3 Cabriolet: 1.5 L, 150 hp, front-wheel drive — the smallest engine in the range and the only front-driven car here.
• Mercedes-Benz SL 43 AMG: 2.0 L, 381 hp, all-wheel drive, 2 seats — the sole all-wheel-drive two-seater on this page.
• Porsche Boxster: 2.0 L, 300 hp, rear-wheel drive, 2 seats — the entry point into mid-engined open-top driving.
• Jaguar F-Type S Cabriolet: 3.0 L, 380 hp, rear-wheel drive, 2 seats — a supercharged V6 with a long bonnet.
• Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabriolet: 3.0 L, 450 hp, rear-wheel drive, 4 seats — one of the three four-seaters on this page with 450 hp or more.
• Aston Martin DB11 Volante: 4.0 L, 510 hp, rear-wheel drive, 4 seats — grand-touring body with a folding roof.
• Mercedes-Benz AMG GT C Roadster: 4.0 L, 557 hp, rear-wheel drive, 2 seats — the most powerful two-seater on the page.
• Bentley Continental GT Convertible: 4.0 L, 550 hp, all-wheel drive, 4 seats — the heaviest car of the eight.

Delivery to your address and to the airports

We deliver to any address in the capital and to Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, London City and Southend. Our fleet is handed over at St Pancras & King’s Cross, Euston, Paddington, Victoria, Waterloo, Canary Wharf, Wembley, ExCeL London and Mayfair as readily as at a residential postcode, and the six airports are covered on the same basis. Outside these places delivery is arranged case by case and is not promised on the site, so a drop-off in a village beyond the M25 needs a conversation first. The delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed — nothing is settled at the kerb. In our practice the airport runs book out fastest around bank holidays — Heathrow alone handled 84,481,178 passengers in a single year, so allow extra time for the hand-over slot.

What the rental agreement sets out

• Deposit and insurance excess: the amounts are set out in the rental agreement and confirmed with a manager before the booking is fixed.
• Delivery fees: the charge for bringing the car to an address or airport is stated in the agreement, not quoted at hand-over.
• Additional driver: adding a second name is arranged when booking and recorded in the agreement.
• Fuel policy: the car comes clean with a full tank and must be returned with a full tank; no other fuel option is offered.
• Road charges and penalties: who pays Congestion Charge, ULEZ and tolls is agreed when booking, not assumed.

Read those lines before the booking is fixed — they are agreed with a manager, and a five-minute check saves an argument on the day.

Choosing a convertible for your trip with Convertibles car rental in London

Convertibles car rental in London starts with eight open-top cars in the fleet, and the choice between them comes down to three things: how many people are travelling, how much power you want on the road, and how far you plan to drive. Seats decide whether the trip works at all; engine size and drivetrain decide how it feels once you are moving.

Two seats or four — matching the car to the trip

Four of our convertibles take four people; the other four are strict two-seaters, so the seat count — not the badge — decides whether a weekend run to Oxford works for your group. The two-seat group is the Mercedes-Benz SL 43 AMG, Porsche Boxster, Jaguar F-Type S Cabriolet and Mercedes-Benz AMG GT C Roadster; the four-seat group is the Audi A3 Cabriolet, Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabriolet, Aston Martin DB11 Volante and Bentley Continental GT Convertible. In our experience the split catches people out at the booking stage: a two-seat roadster leaves no room for a second passenger and luggage on an Oxford run, and the boot is not the place to solve that.

The cheapest and the most expensive open-top

The Audi A3 Cabriolet is the cheapest at £80 a day; the Aston Martin DB11 Volante is the most expensive at £987. Between them sit the Porsche Boxster at £275, Jaguar F-Type S at £404, Porsche 911 Carrera S at £495, Mercedes-Benz AMG GT C Roadster at £837 and Bentley Continental GT Convertible at £837. The spread is wide, but the A3 is the most modest four-seat car in the range, which makes it the practical first choice for a family that wants open-top motoring without paying for power it will never use. At the other end, the Bentley combines four seats with all-wheel drive and 550 hp — the one model on the list that pairs a full back seat with the heaviest drivetrain.

Matching power to the road you will actually drive

Power on this list runs from 150 hp in the Audi A3 Cabriolet to 557 hp in the Mercedes-Benz AMG GT C Roadster, and the difference matters most in town. Central traffic moves at walking pace for long stretches, so a 381 hp SL 43 AMG spends most of a weekday afternoon doing what the A3 does, only louder. Save the big numbers for the open road: rear-wheel drive and 510 hp in the Aston Martin DB11 Volante make sense on a clear run out of the city, not on a slow crawl past Wembley. If your plan is a mix of both, the Jaguar F-Type S Cabriolet at 380 hp is the middle ground on this page.

Tell the manager which model you want when the booking is agreed, and confirm the delivery address, date and time in the same conversation. The model you choose also fixes the longer-booking maths: weekly hire is the daily rate x 6 and monthly is the daily rate x 21, so the gap between the A3 and the Bentley stays in proportion however long you keep the car. Deposit, insurance excess and delivery fees are set out in the rental agreement rather than quoted here — read those lines before the booking is fixed.

How long you need the car in Convertibles car rental in London

With convertibles car rental in London, the length of a booking changes the arithmetic more than the car does. Rent-Trip quotes three ways: a daily rate, a weekly rate built as the daily rate times six, and a monthly rate built as the daily rate times twenty-one. The model you choose sets the base, and the multiplier does the rest.

Daily, weekly and monthly hire

Daily rates for convertible hire in London run from £80 to £987. Weekly hire is the daily rate x 6, from £480, and monthly hire is the daily rate x 21, from £1,680. A week in the Audi A3 Cabriolet at the bottom of the range works out at six days of its daily rate rather than seven, and a month at twenty-one days rather than thirty. The same multipliers apply to the Aston Martin DB11 Volante at the top, so the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive open-top stays proportional across every length of booking. In our experience the weekly figure is where most leisure bookings land — a full week of driving around the city and out to the Chilterns fits the multiplier better than a string of single days — from the seventh day the weekly rate is cheaper, while five days cost less paid by the day and six cost the same. Ask for the rate for your exact dates when you book.

What the rental agreement sets out

• Deposit: the amount held against the car is stated in the rental agreement, not on this page, and is confirmed with a manager before the booking is fixed.
• Insurance excess: the excess that applies if the car is damaged is written into the agreement, so read that line before you commit to dates.
• Delivery fees: delivery to an address in the capital and to the six airports serving it is arranged when you book; any fee attached to a specific address is set out in the agreement.
• Additional driver: adding a second named driver is agreed with a manager at booking, and the terms appear in the agreement rather than here.
• Road charges and penalties: who pays the Congestion Charge, the ULEZ charge, tolls and any penalty notice is agreed when booking — settle it before you drive into the zone.

Read those lines before the booking is fixed, not at the kerb. A longer booking rarely changes the paperwork, but it does change what a mistake costs: the excess and the fuel shortfall are set out in the rental agreement, so a month-long hire carries the same exposure as a week.

Driving a convertible car rental in London on the road

Driving an open-top in the capital is mostly about knowing which charges apply before you leave the kerb. Two schemes cover most of central London, and both are settled per day rather than per trip.

Congestion Charge and ULEZ

The Congestion Charge applies daily, charged 07:00–18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00–18:00 at weekends and on bank holidays, inside the Inner Ring Road — Pentonville Road, City Road, Old Street, Commercial Street, Mansell Street, Tower Bridge Road, New Kent Road, Elephant & Castle, Kennington Lane, Vauxhall Bridge Road, Park Lane, Edgware Road, Marylebone Road and Euston Road all sit on the boundary or outside it. Paying by midnight on the third day after the trip raises the charge, and the zone is suspended from 25 December to the New Year bank holiday inclusive. ULEZ applies daily for non-compliant cars, 24 hours a day, seven days a week except 25 December, across all 32 boroughs; petrol cars must meet Euro 4 and diesels Euro 6, and the M25 sits outside the zone. Who pays road charges and penalties is agreed when booking, so settle that line before you drive into either zone — a PCN arrives with a reduced rate if paid within 14 days.

Left-hand traffic, speed limits and foreign licences

• Traffic drives on the left unless signs or markings say otherwise, and you keep to the left-hand edge when turning (Highway Code, rule 160 and rule 183).
• Roundabouts run clockwise and you give way to traffic approaching from the right (rule 185).
• Urban limits are 30 mph in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland; single carriageways are 60 mph and dual carriageways and motorways 70 mph.
• Holding a phone, satnav or tablet while driving is banned even at a red light: penalty points apply, and drivers who passed under 2 years ago lose the licence.
• A full foreign licence is valid for 12 months from your last entry to Great Britain.

The mirror habit from home is what catches drivers out on the first roundabout, and lit roads default to 30 mph unless a sign says otherwise. In the capital many zones carry 20 mph signs — read them rather than assume, because the sign beats the default. A hands-free device is allowed as long as it does not block your view, and seat belts are compulsory wherever fitted, with children in a car seat until they reach 135 cm or turn 12, whichever comes first; a fine applies. The drink-drive limit in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is 80 mg per 100 ml of blood, 35 µg per 100 ml of breath and 107 mg per 100 ml of urine.

Book the car for the morning rather than the afternoon if you are arriving on a weekday and want to clear the centre before the traffic builds — but the Congestion Charge is a daily charge for 07:00–18:00 on weekdays, so an early hand-over does not avoid it if you drive in the zone during those hours.

Fuel and hand-over tips for Convertibles car rental in London

Fuel and hand-over work the same way for every convertible in our fleet, whether you take an Audi A3 Cabriolet or a Bentley Continental GT Convertible. The tank rule, the condition of the car and the gearbox are fixed before you drive away, so there is nothing to negotiate at the kerb.

Full-to-full fuel and a clean car

The car comes clean with a full tank and must be returned with a full tank, and no other fuel option is offered. Rent-Trip does not sell a pre-paid tank or a full-to-empty arrangement, so the rule is the same on a one-day hire and on a monthly booking. All 8 convertibles on this page run on petrol: the 1.5 L Audi A3 Cabriolet, the 2.0 L Mercedes-Benz SL 43 AMG and Porsche Boxster, the 3.0 L Jaguar F-Type S Cabriolet and Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabriolet, and the 4.0 L Aston Martin DB11 Volante, Mercedes-Benz AMG GT C Roadster and Bentley Continental GT Convertible. Petrol stood at £1.75 a litre at the last check. Fill up at a supermarket forecourt rather than a motorway services area — the price per litre differs enough that the last tank is where a careless return gets expensive. If the tank goes back short, the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement.

Automatic gearboxes across the range

• One gearbox only: all 8 convertibles have an automatic transmission, so there is no manual option to request when you book.
• Two pedals, left-hand traffic: with no clutch to work, the first mile out of a Heathrow or Gatwick delivery slot is one thing less to think about.
• Stop-start traffic: the automatic is what makes a slow crawl through the Congestion Charge zone bearable on a weekday afternoon.
• Engine size is not the deciding factor: the 1.5 L A3 and the 4.0 L Bentley are both automatic, so pick on seats and budget, not on gearbox.

What the hand-over covers

• Returning the car: the car goes back with a full tank under the full-to-full rule; otherwise the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement.

The delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed, and the hand-over happens at that address. What the rental agreement sets out is the deposit, the insurance excess, delivery fees and any additional driver; none of those is a figure we quote on this page, because they are confirmed with you at booking. Read those lines before the booking is fixed rather than at the kerb, when the car is already waiting and the conversation is rushed. Our practice is to settle the fuel rule and the return time in the same exchange, so nothing about the car is a surprise on the last morning.

Trips out of town in a convertible car rental in London

A convertible earns its keep on the open road, not in traffic. From London the good routes start within an hour — and the car you pick decides whether the drive is the point or the passengers are.

Weekend routes and cross-Channel drives

Our own bookings show the pattern: 4 of the 8 open-tops carry two people and nothing more, the other 4 take four. The two-seat roadsters — the Mercedes-Benz SL 43 AMG, Porsche Boxster, Jaguar F-Type S Cabriolet and Mercedes-Benz AMG GT C Roadster — are built for a driver and one passenger. The Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabriolet, Aston Martin DB11 Volante, Bentley Continental GT Convertible and Audi A3 Cabriolet each seat four, which changes what a weekend away looks like.

• Oxford and the Cotswolds: the A40 west and the A44 through Woodstock put you in honey-stone villages in under two hours, roof down on the quieter B-roads past Burford.
• Stonehenge and Bath: the M3 then the A303 past Andover is the direct line to Stonehenge; the A4 through Marlborough towards Bath is slower and far better in a cabriolet with the roof down.
• Brighton and the south coast: the A23 runs straight to the seafront, and an early start beats the weekend queue at Handcross.
• Windsor and Cambridge: both sit close enough for a half-day, which suits a two-seater with no boot to speak of — the short run out is part of the pleasure, not just the way there.
• Canterbury and Cardiff & Wales: Canterbury is a straight run down the M2; Cardiff crosses the Severn and rewards a four-seat car if you are carrying passengers.
• The Continent via Eurotunnel: the Channel crossing takes the car with you, and a 4-seat convertible is the sensible choice for a weekend with luggage.

On a Cotswolds run the difference is luggage, not legroom: a two-seater's boot swallows a soft bag and little else, so pack for the car you booked rather than the trip you imagined. Roof down on a motorway is louder than most people expect, and British weather does not negotiate. The roof goes up in seconds at a standstill, and on the M25 or the M4 that is the difference between a pleasant hour and a tiring one — drop it for the A-roads and keep it up for the motorway legs.

Fuel works the same way out of town as in it: petrol was £1.75 a litre at the last check, and the tank goes back full.

One practicality worth settling early: the delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed, so tell us the route when you book and the hand-over can be timed to your departure rather than the other way round.

Booking a convertible car rental in London with a manager

Convertibles car rental in London with a manager takes one conversation, not a checkout screen. You tell us the dates, the address and the model you have in mind; we confirm what is available from the 8 open-top cars and agree the delivery address, date and time before the reservation is fixed. Nothing is charged at the kerb and nothing is left vague.

• Dates and times: the day you want the car and the hour you want it delivered, plus the return day and hour, so the daily, weekly or monthly rate is calculated correctly.
• Model or class: the Audi A3 Cabriolet at the bottom of the range or the Aston Martin DB11 Volante at the top, or any of the six cars between them.
• Driver details: the licence you will drive on, so the agreement is drawn up for the right person before the hand-over.

The agreement, the deposit and the extras

The deposit, the insurance excess, delivery fees and any additional driver are set out in the rental agreement, and we go through those lines with you before anything is fixed. We do not put a figure on them here because they depend on the model, the length of the hire and the address — a Bentley booked for a month is not the same contract as an A3 for a weekend. Read those sections while the manager is still on the line: a question is easier to settle before the booking is fixed than after. If something in the agreement is unclear, ask then — that is what the conversation is for.

Convertibles are the first class to run short when the weather turns, and our fleet here is 8 cars across 6 brands, so the four 4-seat models go before the two-seaters. Book the Audi A3 Cabriolet or the Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabriolet early if you need rear seats for a family weekend; a strict two-seater like the Porsche Boxster is easier to find at short notice.

For a trip that starts at an airport, tell us the flight and terminal when you book — the delivery time is agreed with a manager, and an early-morning arrival needs a different arrangement from an afternoon one. Tell us the dates when you book and we will confirm what is free.