Luxury car rental in United Kingdom
Looking for luxury car rental in United Kingdom without the showroom runaround? Rent-Trip keeps 15 luxury cars — from the Mercedes-Benz S-Class at £294 a day to the Rolls-Royce Phantom VIII at £2,000 — and delivers the one you pick to any address in London, including London Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, London City and Southend airports.
What luxury car rental in United Kingdom includes
Our luxury fleet with Rent-Trip is a self-drive product: 15 cars from £294 to £2,000 a day, delivered clean and fuelled to the address you agree with a manager. There is no rental counter to queue at — the booking is fixed once the model, date, time and address are settled.
Ten of the fifteen at a glance
| Model | Body | Seats | Fuel | From per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercedes-Benz S-Class | Sedan | 5 | Hybrid | £294 |
| Land Rover Defender 110 | SUV | 5 | Diesel | £350 |
| Mercedes-Benz GLS | SUV | 7 | Diesel | £424 |
| Land Rover Range Rover Sport SVR | SUV | 5 | Petrol | £422 |
| Land Rover Range Rover Vogue | SUV | 5 | Diesel | £427 |
| Land Rover Range Rover Autobiography | SUV | 5 | Diesel | £445 |
| Mercedes-Benz AMG G63 | SUV | 5 | Petrol | £795 |
| Aston Martin DBX707 | SUV | 5 | Petrol | £872 |
| Bentley Bentayga | SUV | 5 | Petrol | £920 |
| Mercedes-Benz Maybach S-Class | Sedan | 5 | Petrol | £1,000 |
Weekly hire is priced at daily × 6 and monthly at daily × 21, so a longer booking changes the arithmetic rather than the car: the cheapest model on the page starts at £1,764 for a week and £6,174 for a month.
Cheapest and most expensive on the page
The Mercedes-Benz S-Class opens the range at £294 a day; the Rolls-Royce Phantom VIII closes it at £2,000. Between them sit four Rolls-Royce models — the Ghost at £1,090, the Wraith at £1,110, the Dawn at £1,290 and the Cullinan at £1,400 — plus the Mercedes-Benz Maybach S-Class at £1,000 and the Bentley Bentayga at £920, all with automatic transmission and a full tank on delivery. The gap between the two ends is body style, engine size and presence, not service: the full-to-full fuel rule and the delivery arrangement apply to every car in the fleet. In our experience the S-Class is the one most often taken for a first booking — it is the least expensive way to find out whether self-drive luxury suits you before committing to a Phantom for a week.
Choosing a luxury car rental in United Kingdom by body style
Body style is the first decision when you book a luxury car, because it sets the seats, the luggage room and the way the car behaves on a motorway. Our 15 cars split into nine SUVs, four sedans, one coupe and one convertible, and every one of them is automatic. The table below puts the shapes side by side with the model that carries each one.
| Body style | Cars | Seats | Models | From per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SUV | 9 | 5 or 7 | Mercedes-Benz GLS, Land Rover Defender 110, Rolls-Royce Cullinan | £350 |
| Sedan | 4 | 5 | Mercedes-Benz S-Class, Rolls-Royce Ghost, Rolls-Royce Phantom VIII | £294 |
| Coupe | 1 | 4 | Rolls-Royce Wraith | £1,110 |
| Convertible | 1 | 4 | Rolls-Royce Dawn | £1,290 |
SUVs, sedans, coupes and convertibles
Nine of our 15 cars are SUVs, four are sedans, and there is one coupe and one convertible. The SUV group runs from the Land Rover Defender 110 with a 3.0 L diesel and 300 hp up to the Rolls-Royce Cullinan with a 6.7 L petrol engine and 563 hp, and it is the only group that offers all-wheel drive across the board plus the seven-seat Mercedes-Benz GLS. Sedans keep the centre of gravity lower: the Mercedes-Benz S-Class pairs a 3.0 L hybrid with rear-wheel drive and 367 hp, while the Rolls-Royce Phantom VIII closes the range at £2,000 a day. Seat count follows body style — the only 7-seat car is the Mercedes-Benz GLS, so a group of six has one obvious answer, and anyone travelling as a pair in the Wraith or the Dawn should plan luggage around a 4-seat cabin.
Petrol, diesel or hybrid
Ten cars run on petrol, four on diesel and one is hybrid; all 15 are automatic. Fuel choice changes the character of a long drive more than the badge does, and in our experience it is the question travellers ask last and think about most.
- Hybrid: the Mercedes-Benz S-Class at £294 a day is the only car on the page that pairs a 3.0 L engine with electric assistance and 367 hp.
- Diesel: the Land Rover Defender 110, Range Rover Vogue, Range Rover Autobiography and Mercedes-Benz GLS share a 3.0 L block, all-wheel drive and 300–367 hp.
- Petrol, grand touring: the Bentley Bentayga and Aston Martin DBX707 bring 550 hp and 707 hp respectively, both with all-wheel drive.
- Petrol, flagship: the Rolls-Royce Ghost, Cullinan and Phantom VIII use a 6.7 L engine with 563–571 hp, the Wraith and Dawn a 6.6 L with 563–624 hp.
- Transmission: every car on the page is automatic, so the choice is engine and body, never gearbox.
The hybrid S-Class is the only car on the page that pairs a 3.0 L engine with electric assistance — worth knowing before a long motorway run, when a diesel SUV will hold its economy more steadily than a large petrol flagship.
Across all four shapes, the price band of our fleet runs from £294 to £2,000 a day, and weekly hire is priced at daily × 6 with monthly at daily × 21 — a longer booking changes the arithmetic, not the car. Tell the manager the body style and the seat count you need and the model list narrows to two or three names; that conversation is also where delivery to an address in London is fixed.
Self-drive luxury car rental in United Kingdom and who may drive
Our luxury car rental in United Kingdom is self-drive only — every one of the 15 cars is handed over for you to drive yourself. What matters before the keys change hands is the licence in your pocket and the side of the road you pull out onto.
Self-drive: you are at the wheel
Every car on this page is self-drive. You take the wheel of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, the Range Rover Vogue or the Rolls-Royce Ghost yourself, and the booking is for the car alone, not for a driver. Traffic in United Kingdom keeps left, and all 15 of our cars are right-hand drive, so the seating position matches the road: you sit on the right, the gear lever falls under your left hand, and the first mile out of the delivery address is the one to take slowly. In our practice, drivers arriving from left-hand-drive markets spend that first mile hugging the centre line — pick a quiet street before joining a motorway, and the mirror habit resets within ten minutes. Roundabouts run clockwise, and at one you give way to traffic approaching from your right, as Highway Code rule 185 sets out.
Driving on a foreign licence
A full valid foreign licence may be used for 12 months from your last entry into Great Britain — England, Wales and Scotland alike. That is the rule on gov.uk, and it covers the whole of our fleet, from the Mercedes-Benz S-Class at the entry point of the range to the Rolls-Royce Phantom VIII. An IDP requirement and the minimum age are agreed when booking, so raise them with the manager before the date is fixed. Speed limits are posted in mph — 30 mph in built-up areas unless signs say otherwise, 60 mph on a single carriageway, 70 mph on a dual carriageway and a motorway — and signs override the default every time. On lit roads the fallback is 30 mph, yet plenty of zones are signed lower, so read the posts rather than the road width. Two more rules catch visitors out: holding a phone at a red light is an offence carrying £200 and 6 penalty points, and a child needs a car seat until 135 cm tall or 12 years old, whichever comes first.
The paperwork side, briefly
- Licence: a full valid foreign licence works for 12 months from your last entry into Great Britain.
- Agreement: the deposit, the insurance excess and any delivery fees are set out in the rental agreement.
- Fuel: the car comes clean with a full tank and must be returned with a full tank.
- Address, date and time: agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed.
Delivery of your luxury car rental in United Kingdom
Delivery is how the service works: Rent-Trip brings the car clean and fuelled to the address you give us, and a manager agrees the place, date and time with you before the booking is fixed.
To an address or an airport
- Any address in London: we deliver to homes, hotels and offices inside the city, including Mayfair, Canary Wharf, Wembley and ExCeL London.
- Heathrow (LHR): the busiest of the six airports we serve, with 84,481,178 passengers a year and about 45 minutes from the centre without traffic.
- Gatwick (LGW): 42,775,241 passengers a year, roughly 70 minutes by road from the centre.
- Stansted (STN): 29,758,490 passengers a year; Luton (LTN), London City (LCY) and Southend (SEN) complete the six airports we serve.
- Outside these places: delivery is arranged case by case and is not promised on the site — ask before you build a plan around it.
How the booking is fixed
The delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed. That sequence is deliberate: an airport arrival only works when the car meets the flight rather than the other way round, so tell us the flight number and the terminal when you book, and the hand-over is planned around it. Nothing about the meeting point is left to chance — if the address changes, the manager re-confirms it with you before the car leaves. In our practice, the bookings that run smoothest are the ones where the client names the terminal and the arrival time in the first message instead of the third. Fixing those three details early also settles the delivery fee, which is set out in the rental agreement rather than quoted here.
What arrives with the car
The car comes clean with a full tank, and it must be returned with a full tank. 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 is offered. Traffic here keeps left and every car in our fleet is right-hand drive, so the first mile from the delivery address is the one to take slowly — pull out of the side street in daylight if you can, and let the manager know at booking if you would rather meet at an airport than at a kerbside.
The rental agreement for luxury car rental in United Kingdom
The deposit, the insurance excess and any delivery fees are set out in the rental agreement — never a figure on this page, because they are agreed when booking. Rent-Trip agrees those lines with you before the car is delivered, so nothing arrives as a surprise at hand-over. What the agreement does is fix the arithmetic of a luxury car rental in United Kingdom in one document: what you pay up front, what is held against the car, and what happens if the bodywork comes back marked. Read those lines before the keys change hands rather than after a kerb scrape in a tight London street.
What the agreement sets out
- Deposit: the security sum held against the car, agreed when booking and confirmed in the rental agreement for the model you choose.
- Insurance excess: the amount that applies to damage, stated in the agreement before delivery rather than quoted as a headline figure.
- Delivery fees: any charge for bringing the car to your address or airport is written into the same document.
- Fuel rule: full-to-full — the car arrives with a full tank and goes back with one.
- Duration arithmetic: weekly hire is daily × 6 and monthly is daily × 21, so a longer booking changes the total, not the car.
Fuel, full to full
Every car in our fleet comes clean with a full tank and must be returned with a full tank. If the tank is short on return, the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement. We do not offer a pre-paid tank or a full-to-empty option — the full-to-full rule is the only fuel policy on the page, and it applies identically to the Mercedes-Benz S-Class at the bottom of the range and the Rolls-Royce Phantom VIII at the top. In our practice the drivers who get caught out are the ones collecting late at Heathrow and driving straight to a meeting: they refuel in a hurry on the way back and stop short of full. Fill up at the last service station before the return address instead.
Reading it before the hand-over
The rental agreement is the one document worth ten minutes of your time on the day the car arrives. It carries the deposit, the excess and the delivery fee in writing, and it is the reference point if anything is disputed later. Ask the manager to walk you through the excess line specifically — it is the figure most drivers skim past, and it is agreed when booking for the model you choose. Anything about the agreement that is not clear when you book is worth settling then, not at the kerb with the engine running.
Driving a luxury car rental in United Kingdom around the capital
Driving a luxury car means driving on the left, with right-hand drive cars and speed limits posted in mph. The rules below cover the charges and habits that catch out visitors most often.
Charges inside the capital
- Congestion Charge: £18 a day if paid on the day of travel or in advance, £21 if paid by midnight on the third day after; it runs 07:00–18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00–18:00 on Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays.
- ULEZ: £12.50 a day for vehicles that do not meet the standards, charged 24 hours a day, seven days a week, except 25 December.
- Dartford Crossing (Dart Charge): £3.50 per crossing for cars, or £2.80 when paid in advance, usually 06:00–22:00 every day.
- Blackwall and Silvertown tunnels: £4.20 at peak and £1.55 off-peak with Auto Pay, effective from 21 September 2026.
Who pays road charges, tolls and penalty notices is agreed when booking, so raise it with the manager before the car is delivered. The Congestion Charge zone sits inside the Inner Ring Road, bounded by roads such as Pentonville Road, City Road, Old Street and Park Lane. A ULEZ charge applies across all 32 boroughs, while the M25 itself is outside the zone. In our experience the mistake is paying the Congestion Charge late rather than not at all — £21 instead of £18 for the same day of driving.
Speed, alcohol and phones
- Speed limits: 30 mph in built-up areas in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, 60 mph on a single carriageway, 70 mph on a dual carriageway and on a motorway; signs override the default.
- Alcohol: in England, Wales and Northern Ireland 80 mg per 100 ml of blood, 35 µg per 100 ml of breath and 107 mg per 100 ml of urine; in Scotland 50 / 22 / 67.
- Phones: holding and using a phone, satnav or tablet is banned even at traffic lights — £200 and 6 penalty points, and drivers who passed their test less than 2 years ago lose their licence.
- Seat belts: required where fitted; children need a child seat until they reach 135 cm or turn 12, whichever comes first — a fine of up to £500.
Roundabouts run clockwise and you give way to traffic approaching from the right (Highway Code, rule 185); at junctions keep to the left-hand edge before turning (rule 183). Many streets in London carry 20 mph signs, so read the signs rather than assume the national limit. Before a long motorway run in a petrol car, check the live litre price — £1.75 for petrol and £1.99 for diesel on 19 October 2026 — because a 6.7 L Rolls-Royce drinks noticeably faster than a 3.0 L hybrid.
Out of the city
Oxford, Cambridge, Stonehenge, the Cotswolds, Bath, Brighton, Windsor and Canterbury all sit within a day's drive, and the Eurotunnel puts the continent on the same map — whether the car may leave the country is agreed when booking. Book the crossing and the parking before you set off; turning up at the terminal without a reservation is the one part of a luxury trip that does not improve with the car.
Why book luxury car rental in United Kingdom with Rent-Trip
Rent-Trip runs one class of car on this page — 15 luxury models from £294 to £2,000 a day — and everything around them is built so you never queue at a counter. The car comes to you, clean and with a full tank, and the model, date, time and address are settled with a manager before the booking is fixed.
What the arrangement looks like:
- Delivery to you: we bring the car to any address in London and to Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, London City and Southend; anywhere else is arranged case by case and is not promised on the site.
- Self-drive only: every car is right-hand drive and automatic — you are at the wheel from the first mile.
- Full-to-full fuel: the car is supplied with a full tank and returned with a full tank; the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement.
- One agreement covers the money: the deposit, the insurance excess and any delivery fees are set out in the rental agreement, so you read them before the hand-over rather than after a kerb scrape.
- Longer bookings scale predictably: weekly hire is priced at daily × 6 and monthly at daily × 21, so a longer stay changes the arithmetic, not the car.
The fleet is narrow on purpose. Fifteen cars across five brands is small enough that we know each one — the hybrid Mercedes-Benz S-Class at the bottom of the range, the seven-seat Mercedes-Benz GLS, the Rolls-Royce Phantom VIII at the top. Nine are SUVs, four are sedans, one is a coupe and one a convertible, and ten run on petrol, four on diesel and one is hybrid. In our experience that mix covers almost every trip a visitor plans: a family of six, a weekend in the Cotswolds, an arrival at St Pancras & King’s Cross with two suitcases and a dinner booking.
A luxury car rental is not only the badge on the bonnet — it is whether the car is there when your flight lands and whether the paperwork is settled before you touch the key. Traffic keeps left and the first mile out of the delivery address is the one to take slowly; fixing the address, date and time with a manager first is what makes an airport arrival work, because the car meets the flight, not the other way round. Anything outside the delivery points above, and any detail on deposit or excess, is agreed when booking.