Mini Cooper, Comfort
★4.3· 49Automatic1.5 L136 hpFront-wheel4 seats
£37per day
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Mini car rental in London
Our fleet on this page is one car — the Mini Cooper, a Comfort-class hatchback with four seats, petrol engine and automatic gearbox — from £37 a day, or £222 a week and £777 a month. We bring it to any address in the city and to Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, London City and Southend airports.
Mini car rental in London with the Mini Cooper
Our Mini car rental in London runs on a single model — the Mini Cooper, a Comfort-class hatchback with four seats, a petrol engine and an automatic gearbox. Rent-Trip delivers it to your address, and the details are agreed with a manager when you book.
What the Mini Cooper on this page is
The Mini Cooper on this page is a Comfort-class Hatchback with 4 seats, and it is the one car our Mini car rental supplies. There is no second car to choose between, so the decision is simple: the car either fits your trip or it does not. The body is short enough for tight kerbside parking and narrow residential streets, and the cabin holds four adults without squeezing the rear pair. The hatchback tailgate opens upward, so bags go in from the back rather than over a sill. Four adults fit, but luggage space in a hatchback is the real limit on airport runs — with four full-size suitcases on board, plan the drop-off around the rear seats rather than the boot.
Engine, gearbox and drive
The Mini Cooper runs on petrol through an automatic gearbox, with front-wheel drive, a 1.5 L engine and 136 hp. Traffic in United Kingdom keeps to the left, and this car is right-hand drive, so the gear lever and the indicator stalk sit where a left-hand-drive driver does not expect them. An automatic and a short body are what make the first week of driving on the left in the city manageable — you watch the road instead of the clutch. Petrol is the only fuel type on this page, and the tank is filled before hand-over: the car comes clean with a full tank and must go back full, with any missing fuel and a refuelling service fee set out in the rental agreement.
Specs at a glance
| Parameter | Mini Cooper |
|---|---|
| Class | Comfort |
| Body | Hatchback |
| Seats | 4 |
| Fuel | Petrol |
| Gearbox | Automatic |
| Drive | Front-wheel |
| Engine | 1.5 L, 136 hp |
| Day rate | £37 |
| Week rate | £222 |
| Month rate | £777 |
Check seats and boot against your party before booking, not after delivery — a fourth passenger and four large cases are the two things this hatchback will not carry together.
What Mini car rental in London costs by day
Mini car rental in London on this page runs at a single rate: £37 a day for the one car on this page, the Mini Cooper. Nothing else on the page carries a second price: one class, one model, one tariff. Longer bookings follow two fixed multipliers — a week is charged as six days, a month as twenty-one — so the figure per day drops as the booking stretches.
Daily, weekly and monthly rates
| Period | Rate | How it is calculated |
|---|---|---|
| One day | £37 | The daily rate |
| One week | £222 | Daily rate × 6 |
| One month | £777 | Daily rate × 21 |
The table above is the whole price list for this page — there is no second class to compare against and no seasonal band to wait for. A week at £222 works out below seven separate days, and a month at £777 below thirty, because the multipliers are six and twenty-one rather than the number of calendar days. In our experience the weekly figure is the one most city breaks land on: five days of driving plus the delivery and return days still bills as a week, so it pays to check the period before confirming dates with the manager.
Deposit, excess and what the agreement covers
The deposit, the insurance excess and any delivery fee are set out in the rental agreement, not on this page. We keep those lines out of the article deliberately: they depend on the agreement in force when you book, and a figure copied into a web page goes stale faster than the terms do. Read those lines before the car arrives — they decide what a small scrape actually costs you, and they are the part of the paperwork most people skim. The same applies to any discount: it is agreed when booking, never assumed from the page.
What changes the total
- Rental length: six days bill as a week at £222, twenty-one days as a month at £777 — the daily figure falls the longer the booking runs.
- Fuel: the car comes with a full tank and must go back full (full-to-full); missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement.
- Charges on the road: for the Congestion Charge, ULEZ and crossings, who pays them is agreed when booking.
One practical note from our own bookings: a Mini Cooper at £37 a day is cheap to run on fuel but not free to park. Budget for parking separately and the total at the end of the trip will not surprise you.
Delivery of your Mini car rental in London
Rent-Trip brings the car to you: Mini car rental in London comes with delivery to any address in the city and to all six airports serving it. The delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed, so the hand-over slot matches your flight or your hotel check-in rather than the other way round.
Where we bring the car
- Any address in the city: a hotel, a flat, an office or a friend's driveway — the exact point is confirmed with the manager when you book.
- Heathrow Airport (LHR): the busiest of the six, 30.3 km by road from the centre and about 45 minutes without traffic.
- Gatwick Airport (LGW): 48.6 km by road, roughly 70 minutes in clear conditions.
- Stansted Airport (STN): 57.9 km by road, about 63 minutes.
- Luton Airport (LTN): 56.9 km by road, around 63 minutes.
- City Airport (LCY): the closest of the six at 14.5 km by road, about 33 minutes.
- Southend Airport (SEN): 67.4 km by road, about 74 minutes.
How the booking is fixed
The delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed — nothing is locked in until that conversation is done. Delivery outside the places listed above is arranged case by case and is not promised on the site, so ask rather than assume. We also have pages for St Pancras & King's Cross, Euston, Paddington, Victoria, Waterloo, Canary Wharf, Wembley, ExCeL London and Mayfair, all inside the delivery area. If your stay sits near one of them, say so when booking: the manager can plan the hand-over around a landmark you already know instead of a postcode you are reading off a confirmation email for the first time. Name the terminal and the flight time when you book, and the hand-over slot is built around it — that single detail decides whether you drive out of the airport or wait an hour for a car that arrived on the wrong side of a delayed landing.
Fuel and condition at hand-over
The car comes clean with a full tank, and it must go back with a full tank — full-to-full is the only fuel option on this site. If the tank is short at return, the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement. No pre-paid tank or full-to-empty option exists here, so budget one stop at a filling station near the airport before you fly: petrol on this page's figures runs at £1.75 a litre, and a Mini Cooper's 1.5 L engine does not need much of it. Photograph the fuel gauge and the bodywork on your own phone at hand-over — not because the paperwork demands it, but because a hatchback parked on a city street collects marks that are easier to attribute before you drive away than after.
Congestion Charge in a Mini car rental in London
The two charges a city drive can meet
Two road charges sit between a Mini and the centre of the city: the Congestion Charge and the Ultra Low Emission Zone. The first is a daytime toll for a defined central area, the second a 24-hour emissions charge across all 32 boroughs. Both have their own hours, their own daily rate and their own penalty scale, and how they are handled is agreed when booking.
- Congestion Charge: £18 a day if paid on the day of travel or in advance, £21 if paid by midnight of the third day after; it runs 07:00–18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00–18:00 on Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays.
- Congestion Charge zone: the area inside the Inner Ring Road, bounded by 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 — those roads themselves sit outside or on the boundary.
- ULEZ: £12.50 a day for a non-compliant vehicle, running 24 hours a day, seven days a week, except 25 December, across all 32 boroughs; the M25 itself is outside the zone.
- ULEZ standards: petrol cars and vans must meet Euro 4 or better, diesels Euro 6 (roughly September 2016 onwards); a vehicle can be checked by registration on the TfL vehicle checker before you drive.
- Mini Cooper on these charges: the one car on this page is a petrol Automatic Hatchback with 4 seats, and how its compliance and any discount are handled is agreed when booking.
The Congestion Charge is suspended from 25 December to the New Year bank holiday inclusive, so a Christmas-week drive into the centre carries no toll — but ULEZ still applies on every one of those days except 25 December itself.
Tickets and who pays the charges
A Penalty Charge Notice for either zone is £180, reduced to £90 if paid within 14 days. Who pays road charges, tolls and penalty notices on a hired car is not fixed by the tariff — it is agreed when booking, and that line in the agreement is the one to read before the car arrives. In our practice the question comes up most on airport runs that end in the centre: a Heathrow pick-up followed by a hotel inside the Inner Ring Road crosses the Congestion Charge boundary on the same afternoon, and ULEZ applies from the moment you leave the airport. Dartford Crossing on the M25 is separate again — £3.50 per crossing for a car, or £2.80 prepaid, payable by midnight of the following day. Ask at booking which of these your route will touch.
Fuel, licence and driving rules for Mini car rental in London
A Mini Cooper on this page takes petrol, and the tank policy is simple: it arrives full and comes back full. Anything else — the missing fuel and the refuelling service fee — is set out in the rental agreement, and no pre-paid or full-to-empty option exists on the site. Petrol around the capital was £1.75 a litre at the last check, diesel £1.99, so a small hatchback with a 1.5 L engine is the cheaper thing to keep fed. For Mini car rental in London we hand the car over clean and full so the first stop is your destination, not a forecourt.
Licence and paperwork
- Foreign licence: a full, valid driving licence from your own country is accepted for 12 months from your last entry into Great Britain — England, Wales and Scotland alike.
- What we do not state: the minimum age, the young-driver surcharge, the cards accepted for the deposit and the territory limit are agreed when booking, not printed here.
- The agreement: deposit, excess and delivery fee sit in the rental agreement, and reading those lines before the car arrives is the cheapest five minutes of the trip.
Driving on the left
Traffic keeps left here, and every car we supply is right-hand drive, so the gearbox sits under your left hand and the kerb is on your left. Highway Code rule 160 puts you on the left unless signs or markings say otherwise; rule 183 keeps you near the left edge when turning. At roundabouts you give way to traffic approaching from the right and travel clockwise (rule 185). In our experience the first hour back on the left is the one that catches people, so plan a quiet stretch before the Congestion Charge zone rather than diving straight into it. Built-up roads default to 30 mph in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland — 60 mph on a single carriageway, 70 mph on a dual carriageway and on a motorway — but many zones post 20 mph, and the sign always outranks the default.
The rules that cost money
Holding a phone, a satnav or a tablet while driving is banned even at a red light: £200 and 6 penalty points, and a driver who passed less than 2 years ago loses the licence outright. Hands-free kit is allowed as long as it does not block your view. Seat belts are compulsory where fitted, and children need a car seat until they reach 135 cm or turn 12, whichever comes first — up to £500 if not.
Day trips in your Mini car rental in London
A Mini Cooper is at its best outside the city. The short body and the automatic gearbox handle a narrow Cotswolds lane far more calmly than a full-size car, and the 1.5 L engine returns sensible fuel figures on a motorway run. Petrol was £1.75 a litre at the last check on 19.10.2026, so a 200-mile round trip is worth costing before you pick a destination.
- Oxford: about 60 miles west along the M40; the park-and-ride sites on the ring road keep the Mini out of the narrow centre streets.
- Cambridge: north on the M11; colleges and the Backs are a walk from the city car parks, and the A14 bypass skips the worst of the traffic.
- Stonehenge: the A303 west, a long day but doable in one go; the visitor centre car park sits off the A360.
- The Cotswolds: villages such as Bourton-on-the-Water and Stow-on-the-Wold reward the small hatchback — passing places on single-track lanes are tight.
- Bath: roughly 115 miles on the M4; the city centre is compact enough that a small car parks far more easily than an estate.
- Brighton: south on the A23, an easy first motorway drive in a country that drives on the left.
- Windsor and Canterbury: both close enough for a half-day.
Charges on the way out and back
The Dartford Crossing on the M25 is £3.50 per crossing for a class B car, or £2.80 with prepayment, and it runs 06:00–22:00 every day including weekends and bank holidays. Payment is due by midnight of the following day. Windsor, Oxford and the Cotswolds sit west of the city and never touch it; Brighton and Canterbury can route around it entirely. The Congestion Charge and ULEZ apply inside the capital itself, not on these routes.
What to settle before you set off
The car comes full-to-full: we supply it with a full tank and you return it full, otherwise the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement. Name your destination when booking: the delivery address, date and time are agreed with a manager, and a longer booking changes the daily figure — a week is charged as six days and a month as twenty-one. In our experience the biggest mistake on a first day trip is planning the return for the evening peak — the M25 westbound backs up from about 16:00, so a Cotswolds run started at 09:00 gets you home before it.
Why book Mini car rental in London with Rent-Trip
Rent-Trip keeps one car for this page: the Mini Cooper, a Comfort-class hatchback with 4 seats, a petrol engine and an automatic gearbox, at £37 a day. That single-model approach is deliberate. Instead of a list of half-known cars, we hand over the one we know — its size, its tank, its boot — and you decide before the booking whether it fits your party. A hatchback with four seats suits a couple with luggage or a small family; four adults fit, but the boot is the limit on an airport run.
What the price covers is simple to check. Weekly bookings are charged as six days and monthly as twenty-one, so a longer stay changes the daily figure without any hidden step. The car comes clean with a full tank and goes back full; the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement. No other fuel option is offered. The deposit, the insurance excess and any delivery fee are set out in the rental agreement — read those lines before the car arrives, because they decide what a small scrape actually costs you.
- Delivered, not collected: we bring the car to any address in the city and to Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, London City and Southend — name the terminal and the flight time when booking.
- Agreed with a manager: the delivery address, the date and the time are fixed with a manager before the booking is confirmed, and anything outside the listed places is arranged case by case.
- One model, known specs: 1.5 L, 136 hp, front-wheel drive, automatic — figures you can plan around rather than guess at.
The city itself is the reason the automatic matters. Traffic drives on the left and every car here is right-hand drive, and the Congestion Charge runs 07:00–18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00–18:00 at weekends, with ULEZ charging 24 hours a day except 25 December. Who pays those charges and any penalty is agreed when booking, so ask at that point rather than after a PCN lands. A short body and two pedals take most of the stress out of the first week.
In our practice, the bookings that go smoothly are the ones where the flight number arrives with the first message. We would rather spend five minutes on the address and the hand-over slot than have you waiting at a terminal.