Toyota car rental in London

Toyota car rental in London puts a hybrid hatchback in your hands: our seven-strong Toyota fleet starts at £25 a day and runs to £41, with the Yaris at the bottom and the C-HR at the top. Models also include the Toyota Corolla, RAV4, Aygo, Corolla Touring Sports and Prius.

Toyota Car Rental in London and the Models We Deliver

The Rent-Trip Toyota fleet runs to 7 cars across 4 classes, and every one of them is brought to the address you give us. What follows is the line-up as it actually is: body style, seats, fuel, gearbox and the daily rate each model starts at.

Which Toyota models can you hire

Economy or Comfort for a city break

Economy gives you the Yaris at £25 and the Aygo at £32, while Comfort holds the Corolla and the Prius at £31 and the Touring Sports at £36. The Yaris is the cheapest car on the page and the obvious pick for two people with a couple of bags: 5 seats, a 1.5 L hybrid and an automatic, so the tight turns around Mayfair and the multi-storey car parks off Oxford Street cost you no gear-shifting. The Corolla adds a 1.8 L hybrid for £6 more a day and is the model most of our city-break customers end up in. The Aygo is the only 4-seat, petrol, manual car here, so it suits short solo trips better than a family week — a 1.0 L with 72 hp is fine in traffic and tiring on a motorway run.

When the RAV4 or C-HR makes sense

The RAV4 is the only SUV and the only all-wheel-drive car on the page at £40 a day, and the C-HR is the Crossover at £41. The RAV4 carries 5 seats with a 2.5 L hybrid and 218 hp, which is the one to take if you are loading four adults plus luggage or heading out to Oxford or the Cotswolds for a few days. The C-HR sits at the top of the range for a different reason: it is a 1.8 L hybrid crossover with the same 122 hp as the Corolla, and people choose it for the higher seating position and the shape rather than for space. All-wheel drive earns its keep on wet motorway runs out of the city, not in 20 mph traffic — if your week is Zone 1 to Zone 3, the Corolla does the same job for less.

Estate space, and how to choose between them

The estate body only exists as the Touring Sports, so if you want an estate there is one clear answer rather than a class guess. It shares the Corolla's 1.8 L hybrid and 122 hp but adds the load bay, at £36 a day. Three things decide most bookings:

• Seats: six of the seven cars take 5; only the Aygo takes 4, so a group of five rules it out immediately.
• Gearbox: six cars are automatic and one is manual — if you have not driven on the left before, the automatic removes the awkward first hour.
• Fuel: six are hybrid and one is petrol, which matters for the charges covered further down this page.

Tell a manager the passenger count, the luggage and roughly where you are going, and the shortlist usually comes down to two cars. The address, date and time are agreed when booking, and the car arrives with a full tank.

Hybrid Toyota Car Rental in London

Six of the seven cars in our Toyota car rental fleet are hybrids; the Aygo is the single petrol manual. That ratio is not an accident of stock: hybrid automatics are what most visitors ask for, though for the charges here a hybrid is treated like any compliant petrol car.

Why 6 of our 7 Toyotas are hybrids

Six of the seven cars in our Toyota car rental fleet are hybrids, and the Aygo is the single petrol manual. The hybrid set spans every class on this page: the Yaris in Economy, the Corolla, Touring Sports and Prius in Comfort, the RAV4 in SUV and the C-HR in Crossover, all with front-wheel drive except the RAV4's all-wheel drive. The 1.8 L unit in the Corolla, Touring Sports, Prius and C-HR produces 122 hp; the RAV4's 2.5 L makes 218 hp; the Yaris runs a 1.5 L at 116 hp. A hybrid automatic also removes the left-hand-gearbox hesitation most visitors have in their first hour of driving on the left — the car creeps and pulls away without a clutch to think about.

ULEZ and the Congestion Charge with a hybrid

The ULEZ charge is £12.50 daily for non-compliant cars and the Congestion Charge is £18 daily, £21 if paid late, and who pays them is agreed when booking. The Congestion Charge runs 07:00–18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00–18:00 at weekends and on bank holidays, inside the Inner Ring Road; ULEZ applies 24 hours a day across all 32 boroughs, with the M25 outside the zone. The Cleaner Vehicle Discount for electric cars has ended, and electric cars now pay £13.50 instead of £18 with Auto Pay — a hybrid is not an electric car, so plan on the standard charge. Check the car against the TfL vehicle checker before you plan a route through the centre, because compliance is per vehicle, not per rental.

What each class costs for a week or a month

The table uses the class minimum, so a Comfort booking at the Corolla or the Prius at £31 a day comes to £186 for a week, while the Corolla Touring Sports at £36 runs to £216. Weekly is daily multiplied by six and monthly by twenty-one — those are the only longer-booking rates we quote, and the manager confirms the final figure when the booking is fixed.

Refuelling a Toyota before you return it

• Full-to-full policy: every car leaves with a full tank and must come back full; the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement.
• No pre-paid option: we do not offer a pre-paid tank or full-to-empty, so budget for one fill before hand-back.
• Petrol, not diesel: every hybrid here takes petrol, and the Aygo does too — check the current pump price before you fill up.
• Fill up outside the centre: forecourts on the approach roads are easier to reach than ones inside the Congestion Charge zone, and you avoid driving into the charging zone just to reach a pump.

Fill up before the last stretch rather than hunting for a station near the drop-off address, and keep the receipt — the car must go back with a full tank.

Book Toyota Car Rental in London with Delivery to You

Rent-Trip brings the car to you — the delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed. That single arrangement covers a hotel in Mayfair and a terminal at Heathrow Airport (LHR), because the hand-over point is part of the booking conversation rather than a counter you have to reach on the day.

Where we deliver a Toyota

We deliver to any address in the city and to Heathrow Airport (LHR), Gatwick Airport (LGW), Stansted Airport (STN), Luton Airport (LTN), City Airport (LCY) and Southend Airport (SEN). Delivery outside these places is arranged case by case and is not promised on the site, so if your stay sits beyond the usual area, raise it early. The delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed — that slot is what actually gets confirmed, not the flight number you happen to mention. In our experience, guests who fix the hand-over for two hours after landing rather than for the landing itself lose far less time waiting on a delayed bag.

How the booking is agreed

• One manager, one thread: the model, the delivery address and the timing are settled with a manager before anything is fixed, so changes go through the same person.
• Deposit and excess: the deposit amount and the insurance excess are set out in the rental agreement, not quoted on this page.
• Fuel: the car comes clean with a full tank and must go back full; the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement.
• Driving licence: full, valid foreign licences are accepted for 12 months from your last entry into Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland).
• Charges on the road: who pays the Congestion Charge, the ULEZ charge, tolls and any penalty notice is agreed when booking.

Picking the right Toyota for the delivery

A Toyota car rental that arrives at your door removes the airport-counter step, but the model still has to fit the trip you have planned. The Yaris at £25 a day and the Corolla at £31 are the two that suit a couple with a suitcase each, while the RAV4 at £40 carries five people and all-wheel drive for the motorway runs out to Oxford or Bath. The Touring Sports at £36 is the only Toyota estate here — if four passengers travel with proper luggage, it and the RAV4 are the two that cover it. Book the car for the days you actually drive, since weekly bookings are charged at the daily rate times six and monthly at the daily rate times twenty-one.

What to have ready at hand-over

The agreement is settled when booking, so the hand-over itself is short. Have your full driving licence to hand and check the car's bodywork when it arrives, because anything you notice later is harder to place. Remember the traffic drives on the left and every car here is right-hand drive — the first mile from a hotel forecourt in Mayfair is the moment most visitors misjudge, so take the long way round on quiet streets before joining a motorway.

Driving a Toyota Car Rental in London on UK Roads

A Toyota car rental in London puts you on the left-hand side of the road in a right-hand-drive car, with 30 mph limits in built-up areas and a 20 mph sign appearing in many zones. Six of our seven cars are automatic hybrids, which takes one thing off your plate while you learn the roundabouts.

What changes when you drive on the left

• Keep left: the Highway Code, rule 160, says hold the left-hand side of the road unless signs or markings tell you otherwise.
• Turning: rule 183 — when you turn, stay close to the left-hand edge.
• Roundabouts: rule 185 — traffic already on the roundabout comes from your right and has priority; you travel clockwise.
• Junctions: look right first, then left, the reverse of what most visitors are used to.
• Busy stretches: the M25 and the approach roads to Heathrow and Gatwick reward an early lane choice rather than a late one.

Any of the hybrids helps here: with no clutch and no manual shift, you can concentrate on which way traffic is coming from at the first few roundabouts instead of on the gearbox.

Speed limits, phones and seat belts

The limit is 30 mph in built-up areas, 60 mph on a single carriageway, 70 mph on a dual carriageway and 70 mph on a motorway. On a lit road the default is 30 mph unless signs say otherwise, and locally plenty of signed zones are 20 mph — the sign wins over the default. 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 under 2 years ago loses the licence. Hands-free is allowed as long as the device does not block your view. Seat belts are compulsory where fitted, and children need a child seat until they reach 135 cm or turn 12, whichever comes first, with a fine up to £500. 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; Scotland runs 50 / 22 / 67. A full foreign licence is valid for 12 months from your last entry into Great Britain — after that the rules change, so plan longer stays around that date rather than discovering it mid-trip.

Charges inside the city

Two schemes catch out visitors in a Toyota car rental in London. The Congestion Charge is £18 a day if you pay on the day or in advance, or £21 if you pay by midnight on the third day after the trip; it runs 07:00–18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00–18:00 at weekends and on bank holidays, and is not charged from 25 December to the New Year bank holiday inclusive. ULEZ is £12.50 a day for non-compliant cars, 24 hours a day, seven days a week except 25 December, and covers all 32 boroughs. Petrol cars need Euro 4 or better, diesels Euro 6. Check the car on the TfL vehicle checker by its registration before you plan a route through the middle — compliance belongs to the vehicle, not to the booking. Who pays road charges, tolls and penalty notices is agreed when booking.

Fuel and longer runs

Every car leaves with a full tank and comes back full; the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are set out in the rental agreement. All seven cars here run on petrol or petrol-hybrid, so the diesel price never applies. Fill up away from the centre, where forecourts are easier to reach, and arrive with the tank you intend to return. Out of town the M25 Dartford Crossing charges £3.50 per crossing, or £2.80 on pre-pay, usually 06:00–22:00 every day.

Day Trips in a Toyota Car Rental in London

A Toyota rented for the week earns its keep outside the city limits, and the destinations below are the ones we get asked about most. Nothing here needs a special vehicle — but the model you pick changes how the day feels.

Where a Toyota takes you from London

• Oxford: about 60 miles west on the M40, an easy morning run that suits the Corolla Hybrid's 1.8 L engine and automatic box in stop-start traffic on the A40 approach.
• Cambridge: north on the M11, roughly 60 miles, and the flattest, straightest motorway driving of any trip from the capital.
• Stonehenge: a longer day run, on the A303, where the RAV4's 218 hp and all-wheel drive make the return leg in rain far less tiring.
• Bath: west on the M4, a comfortable two-hour drive each way, and the trip where the Corolla Touring Sports estate earns its £36 a day — boot space for a family's luggage plus room for purchases on the way home.
• Brighton: south on the A23, one of the shorter runs, and the one where the Yaris at £25 a day is genuinely enough car.
• Windsor and Canterbury: shorter runs west and east respectively, both well inside a half-day and easy on a single tank.

The Dartford Crossing and the M25

The Dartford Crossing (Dart Charge) on the M25 charges cars in class B £3.50 for a single crossing, or £2.80 if you pay in advance, and the charge applies from 6:00 to 22:00 every day of the week including weekends and bank holidays. Payment is due by midnight the following day; miss it and a PCN of £70 follows, reduced to £35 if paid within 14 days and rising to £105 if left unpaid. The Blackwall Tunnel and Silvertown Tunnel run a separate charge — £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. Who covers road charges, tolls and penalty notices on a rental car is agreed when booking, so settle it with the manager before you set off rather than after.

Fuel and the return leg

Every car leaves with a full tank and must come back full — that is the full-to-full rule, and anything missing is charged with a refuelling service fee as set out in the rental agreement. On 19.10.2026 petrol stood at £1.75 a litre and diesel at £1.99, and six of the seven Toyotas here are hybrids. Fill up before you re-enter the city rather than hunting for a forecourt near your delivery address — forecourts on the outer approach roads are simpler to reach.

One practical note on the long runs

The Prius and the Corolla Hybrid both pair a 1.8 L engine with an automatic box and front-wheel drive, and the Corolla Touring Sports carries the same drivetrain with an estate body — three of the Comfort class cars here, from £31 a day. The C-HR at £41 a day is the most expensive car on the page and the one to choose if you want the crossover driving position for a Stonehenge or Bath run; the RAV4 is the better pick if the forecast is wet or the car is full. Book the model against the trip, not against the price list — a week in the Yaris is fine for Brighton and cramped for a family of five heading to the Cotswolds.

Long-Stay Toyota Car Rental in London for a Week or Month

A long stay changes which Toyota makes sense, and the maths on this page is simple: weekly is the daily rate multiplied by six, monthly is the daily rate multiplied by twenty-one. Toyota car rental in London for a month is a different calculation from a weekend, and the model matters more than the rate. For a month in the Corolla at £31 a day that comes to £651, and the same month in the Yaris at £25 runs to £525 — the two cheapest ways to keep a car for four weeks from this fleet.

Choosing a model for a month, not a weekend

• Yaris at £25: the lowest monthly figure on the page at £525, and enough car for one or two people doing short, frequent runs rather than long motorway days.
• Corolla at £31: £651 a month for a 1.8 L hybrid with 122 hp, and the model most of our longer bookings settle on.
• RAV4 at £40: £840 a month, and the only all-wheel-drive car here — worth it if the month includes regular trips out to Oxford, Bath or the Cotswolds in wet weather.
• Touring Sports at £36: £756 a month for the only estate on the page, which is the answer when the same four people travel with proper luggage week after week.
• C-HR at £41: £861 a month, the top of the range here, and a choice about driving position rather than about space.

What a month on London roads actually involves

A month is long enough to meet both charging schemes more than once, so know how they work before you plan the month. The Congestion Charge is £18 daily, or £21 if you pay by midnight on the third day after the trip, and it applies 07:00–18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00–18:00 at weekends and on bank holidays inside the Inner Ring Road. ULEZ is £12.50 daily for non-compliant cars, 24 hours a day across all 32 boroughs, with the M25 outside the zone. Who covers the charges, the tolls and any penalty notice is settled at the time of booking, so pin that down alongside your dates. In our experience, a monthly customer who plans a route that avoids the centre on weekdays runs into far fewer charges than one who does not.

Keeping a Toyota for a month without surprises

• Fuel: full-to-full on every hand-over — the car arrives with a full tank and goes back full, with missing fuel and a refuelling service fee charged as set out in the rental agreement.
• Petrol price: all seven cars here run on petrol or petrol-hybrid, so the diesel price never applies.
• Servicing and tyres: anything that feels wrong with the car goes through the same manager who agreed the booking, rather than being left until the return date.
• Documents: a full, valid foreign licence covers 12 months from your last entry into Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland), so a stay that runs past that date needs planning rather than discovering it mid-month.
• Parking and permits: these are not quoted on this page — check what your address allows before the car is delivered.

Comparing Toyota Classes for Your London Rental

Four classes sit on this page, and the gap between the cheapest and the dearest is £16 a day. That difference buys space, drivetrain and driving position, not reliability — six of the seven Toyotas here have an automatic gearbox.

What each class gives you

The decisions that actually split the classes

• Passenger count: six of the seven cars take 5 seats and only the Aygo takes 4, so a party of five removes the cheapest manual option before anything else is discussed.
• Luggage: the Touring Sports is the only estate, and four passengers with full-size cases otherwise need the RAV4.
• Gearbox: six cars are automatic and one is manual; if you have not driven on the left before, the automatic takes the gearbox out of the first hour.
• Drivetrain: the RAV4 is the only all-wheel-drive car here, which matters on wet motorway runs out of the city and makes no difference in 20 mph traffic.
• Height: the C-HR is the crossover option at the top of the range, chosen for the higher seating position rather than for load space.

Where the money goes between classes

Economy starts at £25 and the Corolla sits at £31, so the step from the Yaris to the Corolla is £6 a day — £36 across a week and £126 across a month. The jump to the RAV4 at £40 is £15 a day over the Yaris, and the C-HR at £41 is £16 a day over it. On a seven-day booking that is £150 in the Yaris against £246 in the C-HR, and the difference buys a crossover body and a higher seat, not more room for people. If the trip is a city break with two bags, the Corolla at £31 does the work of cars costing ten pounds a day more.

Reading the Toyota Rental Agreement Before You Sign

The agreement is where the figures that are not on this page live: the deposit, the insurance excess, delivery fees and any discount are set out in the rental agreement, and the manager confirms them when the booking is fixed. Nothing in this section replaces that document — it tells you what to look for in it.

The five lines worth finding first

• Deposit and excess: the amount held and the excess you carry in a claim are both in the agreement, and neither is quoted on this page.
• Fuel: full-to-full is the rule here — the car leaves with a full tank and comes back full, with missing fuel and a refuelling service fee charged as set out in the rental agreement.
• Charges on the road: liability for the Congestion Charge, the ULEZ charge, tolls and any penalty notice is settled at the time of booking, so get the answer before the car arrives rather than after a PCN lands.
• Territory: delivery outside the places listed on this page is arranged case by case and is not promised on the site, so raise any unusual address early.

What is agreed when booking, and what is not on this page

The minimum rental age, any young-driver surcharge, the cards accepted and the territory limit are all agreed when booking — they are not stated here because they are not fixed conditions of this page. The same goes for the deposit and the excess: the agreement carries the numbers, and the manager walks through them before anything is confirmed. What the page does state plainly is the fuel rule and the delivery area, because those are Rent-Trip's own terms rather than a market practice. If a detail is not in the agreement and not on this page, ask the manager directly — a two-minute question at booking is worth more than a dispute at hand-back.

Paperwork worth having ready

A full, valid foreign licence is accepted for 12 months from your last entry into Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland). Beyond that date the rules change, so a longer stay needs to be planned around it. Keep the licence with you while driving, not in a suitcase at the hotel, and have the booking details to hand at the hand-over so the model, the address and the time can be checked against what was agreed.

Mistakes Visitors Make with Toyota Car Rental in London

Most of the problems we hear about are not mechanical. They come from booking the wrong car for the trip, from treating the delivery slot as approximate, or from discovering a charge after the fact instead of at booking.

Common booking mistakes

• Booking for the flight, not the day: a hand-over fixed for the landing time rather than two hours after it loses the first hour to a delayed bag.
• Choosing by price alone: the Yaris at £25 is the cheapest car here and the wrong one for five people with luggage — six of the seven cars take 5 seats, but the bags need the estate or the RAV4.
• Forgetting the manual: the Aygo is the single petrol manual on the page, and it is a poor first car for someone who has never driven on the left.
• Assuming the centre is free to cross: the Congestion Charge is £18 a day, £21 if paid late, and ULEZ is £12.50 a day for non-compliant cars — both apply on a city itinerary, and who pays them is agreed when booking.
• Leaving the tank low: full-to-full is the rule, and missing fuel plus a refuelling service fee is charged as set out in the rental agreement.

Driving mistakes in the first hour

The traffic drives on the left and every car here is right-hand drive, so the first mile from a hotel forecourt is where most visitors misjudge a turn. Look right first at junctions, not left. A hybrid automatic helps — with no clutch there is one less thing to think about while you learn which way traffic comes from.

Charges people discover too late

ULEZ compliance belongs to the vehicle, not to the booking, so check the car on the TfL vehicle checker by its registration before planning a route through the middle. Petrol cars need Euro 4 or better and diesels Euro 6. The Dartford Crossing on the M25 charges £3.50 per crossing, or £2.80 on pre-pay, usually 06:00–22:00 every day, with payment due by midnight the following day and a £70 PCN if missed, reduced to £35 within 14 days. Settle who covers road charges, tolls and penalty notices when booking — that single question prevents most of the arguments we hear about.