Peugeot car rental in London

A week of London errands, a family visit or a run out to the Cotswolds is easier when the car comes to you: Rent-Trip delivers a Peugeot to any address in the city and to Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, London City and Southend airports.

Four models of Peugeot car rental in London to match your trip

Peugeot car rental in London starts with picking the right body: four models, four different jobs. Four Peugeot models make up this page: the 2008 crossover, the 208 hatchback, the 3008 SUV and the 5008 seven-seat MPV. All four run on petrol, all four share the same 1.2 L engine, and each one suits a different kind of trip — from a solo week of meetings to a family run to the coast.

Peugeot 2008 — the crossover for two or three in town

Our Peugeot 2008 is the cheapest car on this page at £25 a day, and it is the one we hand over most often to couples and solo drivers. The 2008 is a five-seat crossover with a manual gearbox, 100 hp and front-wheel drive, so it sits higher than a hatchback without growing into an SUV footprint. That extra height helps at junctions and in multi-storey car parks, where you can see over the bonnet line of the car in front. Boot space takes two cabin bags plus a folded pushchair without dropping the rear seats.

In our experience the 2008 is the easiest of the four to place into a tight bay on a residential street in London, which matters when you are parking between two vans on a Sunday evening. If your trip is mostly short hops with one or two people aboard, the crossover body is the practical choice over the smaller 208.

Peugeot 208 — the economy hatchback for city driving

The Peugeot 208 is the economy option at £29 a day, a five-seat hatchback with a manual gearbox and a 75 hp version of the same 1.2 L petrol engine. It is the smallest car on this page and the lightest on fuel, which suits a driver who spends the day circling for kerb space rather than covering motorway miles. The 208 turns into gaps the 2008 has to think about, and its short rear overhang makes reverse parking in a bay straightforward. What it does not do is carry four adults plus luggage comfortably — the boot swallows a weekly shop, not four suitcases.

We usually suggest the 208 to a single driver or a pair on a city break, where the priority is cheap days and easy parking rather than load space. Anyone planning a longer run with passengers should look at the 3008 instead.

Peugeot 3008 — the automatic SUV for longer runs

The Peugeot 3008 is the only automatic on this page, at £43 a day. It is a five-seat SUV with front-wheel drive, and the automatic gearbox is what makes it the pick for stop-start traffic and for anyone who has never driven a manual on the left. Two pedals instead of three removes one thing to think about at a junction when you are still learning which way the traffic flows. The 3008 also has the tallest seating position of the four, which pays off on the motorway and on unfamiliar country roads after dark.

In our practice, drivers who book a multi-day trip with a mix of city and out-of-town driving come back to the 3008 more often than any other model on this page. It is the middle of the range on price and the most versatile on paper.

Peugeot 5008 — the seven-seater for a family of six

The Peugeot 5008 is the largest car on this page and the most expensive at £65 a day, a seven-seat MPV with a manual gearbox and 130 hp. Three rows mean six passengers travel without anyone folding themselves into a middle seat, and the third row is sized for children rather than adults. Under UK rules a child must use a child seat until they reach 135 cm or turn 12, whichever comes first, so the rearmost pair of seats is where the younger members of the group belong. With the third row folded, the 5008's boot takes a full family's luggage for a week away. We recommend it when the headcount is five or more and the trip includes a long drive, since the extra seats and the 130 hp engine make a loaded motorway run less of a strain than the smaller models.

All four models side by side

What Peugeot car rental in London costs and how longer bookings work

Peugeot car rental in London runs from £25 to £65 a day across the four models on this page, and the price you pay depends on which class you pick rather than on the length of the trip. Longer bookings are worked out from the daily rate with a fixed multiplier, and the rest of the terms sit in the agreement.

Daily rates by class

Weekly and monthly rates for the Peugeot range

A week starts at £150, and a month starts at £525. Both figures come from the same daily rate on the cheapest car here: the weekly figure is the daily rate multiplied by six, the monthly one by twenty-one. The multiplier is applied to whichever model you book, so a week in the 3008 at £43 a day works out at six times that rate, and the same logic carries to the 5008 at £65. We do not run a separate long-stay tariff or a seasonal surcharge on this page — the arithmetic above is the whole of it. In our experience the monthly figure is the one travellers misjudge: they compare it to thirty separate days and expect a bigger drop than twenty-one days actually delivers, so budget from the multiplier, not from the calendar.

What the agreement sets out

• Deposit and excess: the amount held against the car and the insurance excess are set out in the rental agreement, not quoted here.
• Delivery fees: delivery at the address you give us is agreed with a manager when the booking is fixed, and any fee for it is confirmed at the same point.
• Fuel: the car is supplied with a full tank and must be returned with a full tank; the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement.
• Discounts: any reduction on a longer booking is set out in the rental agreement rather than applied automatically at checkout.
• Payment and driver details: the cards accepted, the minimum age and the documents for an additional driver are all agreed when booking.

The list matters more than it looks. Two travellers comparing the same daily rate can end up with different totals once the deposit, the delivery arrangement and the fuel return are settled, so read the agreement before you commit to a model rather than after.

How your Peugeot car rental in London reaches you by delivery

Peugeot car rental in London works the other way round from a depot pick-up. Rent-Trip brings the car to you rather than asking you to collect it from a compound. The delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed, so the hand-over happens where your trip actually starts — a hotel, a flat, an office or one of the six airports.

Where we deliver

• Any address in the city: a home, a hotel, a serviced flat or an office — the exact spot is confirmed with a manager when you book.
• Heathrow Airport (LHR): the busiest of the six airports we cover, roughly 30.3 km by road from the centre and about 45 minutes without traffic.
• Gatwick Airport (LGW): around 48.6 km by road, roughly 70 minutes in clear conditions.
• Stansted Airport (STN): about 57.9 km by road to the north-north-east, roughly 63 minutes.
• Luton Airport (LTN): around 56.9 km by road, roughly 63 minutes.
• City Airport (LCY): the closest of the six at about 14.5 km by road, roughly 33 minutes.
• Southend Airport (SEN): the furthest at about 67.4 km by road, roughly 74 minutes.

Fixing the address, date and time

The delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed — nothing is dispatched until the three are confirmed. In our experience the airport hand-overs are the ones worth locking in earliest — a flight number and a landing time give the driver something concrete to work with, while «sometime on Saturday morning» tends to drift. Rent-Trip covers St Pancras & King's Cross, Euston, Paddington, Victoria, Waterloo, Canary Wharf, Wembley, ExCeL London and Mayfair as part of the same delivery area, so a pick-up near a mainline station is no different from one at a residential address. The car arrives clean and with a full tank, and it must go back with a full tank: full-to-full, with any missing fuel and the refuelling service fee charged as set out in the rental agreement. No other fuel option — a pre-paid tank or full-to-empty — is offered.

Outside the places named above, delivery is arranged case by case and is not promised on the site; ask the manager before you count on it.

What to have ready when the car arrives

• The agreed address: confirm it once more the day before, especially for hotels with a rear entrance or a loading bay rather than a main door.
• A reachable phone number: the driver needs to find you at the airport or in a residential street, and that is agreed when booking.
• The rental agreement: documents, deposit and insurance excess are set out in it, and the manager talks you through them before the booking is fixed.
• Your return plan: the same address, or a different one — say which at the booking stage, because a change of return point is a separate arrangement.

Delivery is the part of Peugeot car hire in London that most often goes wrong elsewhere, usually because the address was never truly pinned down. Ours starts from the opposite end: the manager confirms the address, the date and the time first, and only then does the car move.

Petrol, gearbox and driving a Peugeot car rental in London

All four cars on this page run on petrol from the same 1.2 L engine and drive the front wheels, so the real choice is between three manual gearboxes and one automatic. What changes between them is power, weight and how much work the driver does in traffic.

Manual or automatic

The Peugeot 3008 is the only automatic on this page, at £43 a day with 130 hp under the bonnet. The other three — the 2008, the 208 and the 5008 — come with a manual gearbox, and the 5008 carries the same 130 hp engine as the 3008 but sends it through a stick shift. In our experience the automatic earns its keep on the stop-start stretches inside the Congestion Charge zone, where a manual means a clutch pedal every few hundred metres. If your route is mostly the Westway or the M25, the manual saves you nothing but costs you nothing either — the 2008 at £25 per day is the cheapest way onto this page. A 1.2 L engine in the 208 returns the best economy of the group simply because it has the least weight and the least power to move, at 75 hp.

Fuel policy and petrol prices

Every car leaves with a full tank and must come back full — full-to-full is the only fuel option Rent-Trip offers, and there is no pre-paid tank or full-to-empty arrangement on the site. Petrol here was £1.75 a litre on 19.10.2026, with diesel at £1.99, though diesel is irrelevant here: all four Peugeots are petrol. Fill up shortly before you hand the car back so it returns with a full tank, and plan the stop rather than leaving it to the airport approach — the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement, and a forecourt detour at Heathrow or Gatwick costs you more time than the fuel costs money.

Left-hand traffic and London rules

• Keep left: hold the left-hand side of the road unless signs or markings say otherwise (Highway Code, rule 160), and stay close to the left kerb when turning (rule 183).
• Roundabouts: traffic on the roundabout has priority from the right, and you travel clockwise (Highway Code, rule 185).
• Speed: 30 mph is the default on lit roads in England, but many zones here are signed at 20 mph — the signs beat the default, so read them.
• Child seats: children need a seat until they reach 135 cm or turn 12, whichever comes first, and the fine runs up to £500.
• Phones: holding a phone, satnav or tablet is banned even at a red light — £200 and 6 penalty points, and hands-free is allowed only if the device does not block your view.
• Foreign licence: a full valid licence from abroad is good for 12 months from your last entry into Great Britain.

The 2008 and the 208 are the easier cars to place in a 20 mph residential street, while the 3008's automatic takes the sting out of a slow crawl past St Pancras & King's Cross at peak time.

Charges a Peugeot car rental in London may meet on the road

Four charging schemes sit between a driver and a clean run in the capital: the Congestion Charge, the ULEZ, the Dartford Crossing and the Blackwall and Silvertown tunnels. All four are road charges rather than hire fees, and who covers them is agreed when booking.

Congestion Charge and ULEZ

The Congestion Charge is £18 a day, running 07:00–18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00–18:00 on Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays, with no charge from 25 December to the New Year bank holiday inclusive. Paying by midnight on the third day after the trip raises it to £21. The zone sits 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 — and those roads themselves run outside or along the boundary. The ULEZ is a separate £12.50 a day for vehicles that do not meet the emission standard, charged 24 hours a day, seven days a week, except 25 December, and covering all 32 boroughs; the M25 sits outside it. Check the number plate on the TfL vehicle checker before setting off — a petrol Peugeot that fails the standard is charged £12.50 a day, and who pays it on a hire car is agreed when booking. A missed charge becomes a PCN of £180, cut to £90 if paid within 14 days.

Tolls and crossings

• Dartford Crossing (Dart Charge), M25: £3.50 per crossing for cars (class B) on pay as you go, or £2.80 when paid in advance; normally charged 06:00–22:00 every day, weekends and holidays included.
• Blackwall Tunnel and Silvertown Tunnel: £4.20 at peak — northbound 06:00–10:00 and southbound 16:00–19:00 on weekdays — and £1.55 off-peak with Auto Pay, from 06:00 to 22:00 on weekdays and all day at weekends.
• Payment windows: the Dart Charge is settled by midnight the following day; the tunnels run through an Auto Pay account with TfL London Road User Charging.
• Penalty notices: a Dartford PCN is £70, £35 if paid within 14 days and £105 if left unpaid; tunnel penalties are £180, £90 within 14 days, with a maximum of one PCN a day.

In our experience the Dartford charge is the one drivers forget, because the crossing has no barrier and nothing is handed over at the time. Note the date of any crossing and make sure it is paid by midnight the following day — who pays it on a hire car is agreed when booking, and a missed payment becomes a £70 notice, £35 if paid within 14 days.

Day trips in a Peugeot car rental in London

Longer runs out of the city are where the 3008 and the 5008 earn their keep. Both use the same 1.2 L petrol engine at 130 hp, but one is a five-seat SUV with an automatic gearbox and the other is a seven-seat MPV with a manual. Which one you take depends on how many people are travelling and how much you want to think about gear changes on the motorway.

The 3008 is the easier choice for two or three people heading west or north. At 130 hp with the automatic, it holds motorway speed without working hard, and the higher driving position helps on the M25 where traffic bunches and clears without warning. For Oxford, Cambridge or The Cotswolds — all day-return distances — the automatic pays off on the return leg, when you are tired and the ring roads are busy.

The 5008 takes the whole family. Seven seats, 130 hp and a manual, which is a fair trade for the extra two berths: on a long motorway run you stay in top gear for most of the trip anyway. The third row suits children — under the child seat rules, a child needs a booster until they reach 135 cm or turn 12, whichever comes first, and that is exactly the size of passenger the back two seats are built for.

• Oxford and Cambridge: the 3008 for two or three, the 5008 if the whole family is going — both are straightforward motorway runs.
• The Cotswolds: the 3008, because narrow village roads and tight parking favour the smaller of the two larger cars.
• Eurotunnel crossing: the 5008 if you are crossing with a full car — the extra seats matter more than the gearbox on a long motorway run.
• Stonehenge and Bath: the 3008, since both are day-return trips with little luggage.
• Windsor and Brighton: either works; the 5008 only if you need all seven seats.

One thing worth knowing before you plan a crossing: the Dartford Crossing on the M25 charges £3.50 per crossing for cars, or £2.80 if you pay in advance, and it runs from 6:00 to 22:00 every day. Payment is due by midnight the following day. Who covers road charges on the car is agreed when booking, so settle it with the manager before you set off rather than after the trip.

If your day out starts at an airport — Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, London City or Southend — we deliver the car there, and the address, date and time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed.

Booking a Peugeot car rental in London with a manager

Rent-Trip does not run a self-service checkout. Every Peugeot on this page is fixed with a manager, who confirms the model, the dates and the delivery address before anything is committed. That is deliberate: four cars, four different classes and a delivery slot to agree means a person on the other end settles it faster than a form. The sequence is short. You tell us which model you want — the 2008 at £25 per day, the 208 at £29, the 3008 at £43 or the 5008 at £65 — plus the dates and where the car should arrive. A manager checks that the car is free for that window and comes back to you with the confirmation. Only then is the booking fixed. If your plans move after that, talk to the same manager rather than starting again from scratch.

• Model and dates: the four cars are booked individually, so a specific model is held for a specific window rather than a class being promised on the day.
• Delivery address, date and time: agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed, whether that is a street address or one of the six airports we deliver to.
• Deposit, insurance excess, delivery fees and any discount: set out in the rental agreement, not quoted over the phone.
• Fuel: the car comes with a full tank and goes back with a full tank; the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as the agreement sets out.
• Anything outside our usual ground: arranged case by case and never promised on the site.

Two things are worth raising at the booking stage rather than at hand-over. The first is the gearbox: three of the four cars are manual and only the 3008 is automatic, so if an automatic is a hard requirement, say so at the start — it is the difference between the 3008 and everything else. The second is the road charges. The Congestion Charge, the ULEZ, the Dartford Crossing and the Blackwall and Silvertown tunnels all sit on routes a booking here will meet, and who covers them is agreed when booking, not assumed afterwards.

Ringfence the drop-off before you fall in love with a model. In our practice, the bookings that go smoothly are the ones where the address is settled first and the model second. A delivery slot in central London is a narrower thing than the car itself, and once the address and time are pinned down, choosing between the 2008 and the 3008 takes a minute.