SUV car rental in United Kingdom

One step above the smallest hatchback, our SUV class puts 10 cars on the road in the United Kingdom from £34 a day — Toyota RAV4, Hyundai Tucson, Kia Sportage, MG HS, Volkswagen Tiguan, Nissan Qashqai, Peugeot 3008, Ford Kuga, Kia Sorento and Jeep Compass, five and seven seats, hybrid and petrol, automatic and manual.

SUV Car Rental in United Kingdom and the Ten Models Behind It

Ten SUVs across nine brands make up the Rent-Trip fleet here, priced from £34 to £49 a day. Five seats or seven, petrol or hybrid, automatic or manual — the spread is wide enough that the right car depends on who is travelling and where you are going.

Which SUVs You Can Hire and What Each One Offers

Five Seats or Seven, Petrol or Hybrid, Automatic or Manual

• Seats: nine of the ten models seat five and only the Kia Sorento seats seven, so a group of six has exactly one car to book.
• Fuel: seven run on petrol and three are hybrid — the Toyota RAV4, the Kia Sorento and the Jeep Compass.
• Gearbox: eight come with an auto box and two are manual, the Kia Sportage and the Nissan Qashqai.
• Drive: the Toyota RAV4 and the Kia Sorento put power to all four wheels; the other eight are front-wheel drive.
• Engines: capacity runs from 1.2 L in the Peugeot 3008 to 2.5 L in the Toyota RAV4, with output from 130 hp to 230 hp.

One of the manuals, the Kia Sportage at £35, sits at the lower end of the range, so a driver who holds a manual licence can save money rather than settle for less car.

Weekly and Monthly Rates for an SUV

Longer bookings are priced at the daily rate × 6 for a week, from £204, and × 21 for a month, from £714. The multiplier is fixed across the fleet, so the arithmetic is the same whichever model you pick — a week in the Toyota RAV4 starts at £240, a month at £840, and the Kia Sorento scales up from its own £49 daily rate. In our experience the monthly figure is what most people ask about first when a contract or a long family stay is involved, and it is worth running the sum on the model you actually want rather than on the cheapest one. Because the multiplier does not change, the saving grows with the daily rate — a longer hire of a pricier model gains more in absolute terms than the same hire of the cheapest one.

Rent-Trip delivers the car to any address in London and agrees the address, date and time with a manager before the booking is fixed.

SUV Car Rental in United Kingdom

Running costs sit on top of the daily rate, and they split into three lines: fuel, the charges that come with driving into London, and tolls on the motorway network. Seven of our ten SUVs take petrol and three are hybrid, so the fuel line differs by model before you ever leave the delivery point.

Petrol or Hybrid for a Week of SUV Car Rental in United Kingdom

Three of our SUVs are hybrid — the Toyota RAV4, the Kia Sorento and the Jeep Compass — and the other seven run on petrol. The hybrids sit from the middle to the top of the range: the RAV4 at £40 daily with a 2.5 L engine, 218 hp and all-wheel drive, the Compass also at £40, and the Sorento closing it at £49. Alongside them sit the petrol models, from the Hyundai Tucson at £34 daily through the Kia Sportage, MG HS, Volkswagen Tiguan, Nissan Qashqai, Peugeot 3008 and Ford Kuga up to £48. A hybrid pays off on stop-start city miles rather than steady motorway runs, so match the fuel type to the roads you actually plan — a week of motorway work rarely repays the hybrid premium, a week of short urban hops often does.

Fuel, Tank and Luggage on Delivery

• Full-to-full: the car comes clean with a full tank and must go back full — no other fuel option is offered.
• Refuelling charge: missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement.
• Last leg: plan the refuelling stop close to the return address, so the car goes back full and you are not hunting for a station at the end of the trip.
• Boot space: five-seat models carry a family's cases; the seven-seat Kia Sorento gives up load room when the third row is up.
• Fuel prices: petrol stood at £1.75 a litre and diesel at £1.99 on 19.10.2026, so a full tank is a real line in the budget.

What the Charges Add Up To

The Congestion Charge zone sits inside the Inner Ring Road, and ULEZ now covers all 32 boroughs — the M25 itself stays outside it. Who pays road charges, tolls and penalty notices on a rented car is agreed when booking, so raise it with the manager rather than assume. On a week's SUV car rental in United Kingdom, budget the daily charge for every weekday you plan to drive into the centre: five weekdays of Congestion Charge outweigh a day's hire on the cheapest model.

Choosing an SUV Car Rental in United Kingdom for Your Trip

The choice inside our SUV fleet comes down to three things: how many people travel, how much luggage goes with them and which roads the trip actually uses. Ten models sit between £34 and £49 a day, so the smallest car is not automatically the wrong one and the dearest is not automatically the right one.

Compact or Full-Size SUV for a Family

For a family of six the Kia Sorento is the only option here, at £49 daily with seven seats and all-wheel drive. Every other SUV in the fleet seats five, which covers two adults and three children comfortably and leaves the boot free for cases. The Sorento pairs its 1.6 L hybrid engine with 230 hp, so a loaded seven-seater still pulls cleanly on a motorway incline. A seven-seater is worth booking early rather than assumed — there is exactly one on this page, and a five-seat car cannot be stretched to six passengers whatever the luggage arrangement.

Boot Space and Airport Luggage

• Toyota RAV4: 2.5 L hybrid, 218 hp, all-wheel drive, five seats at £40.
• Nissan Qashqai: 1.3 L petrol, 140 hp, manual gearbox, front-wheel drive — a compact body that parks easily in tight streets.
• Kia Sportage: 1.6 L petrol, 150 hp, manual, front-wheel drive, five seats at £35 a day.
• Volkswagen Tiguan: 1.5 L petrol, 150 hp, automatic, front-wheel drive, five seats at £40 a day.

Check boot volume against passenger count, not against car size — a full five-seat load leaves less room than the class name suggests, and a roof box is not listed on this page.

Petrol, Hybrid and the Roads You Plan to Cover

Three of the ten SUVs are hybrid — the Toyota RAV4, the Kia Sorento and the Jeep Compass — and the remaining seven run on petrol, including the Hyundai Tucson, the MG HS, the Peugeot 3008 and the Ford Kuga. A hybrid earns its keep on stop-start city miles rather than steady motorway running, so match the fuel type to the roads you actually plan. In our experience the RAV4 suits a week that mixes both: 218 hp and all-wheel drive for a wet motorway, hybrid running for the slow stretches. Petrol is the simpler choice for a long motorway run, where the engine stays at a constant load and the electric assistance adds little.

What to Settle Before the Booking Is Fixed

• Delivery address: agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed, whether that is a hotel, a station or an airport.
• Dates and times: the collection and return slots are confirmed in the same conversation, not left open.
• Driving licence: full and current foreign licences are accepted for 12 months from your last entry into Great Britain.
• Tank policy: the car comes clean with a full tank and goes back full — full-to-full is the only fuel option we offer.

Delivery for an SUV car rental in United Kingdom runs across London, and the address, date and time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed.

Driving Your SUV Car Rental in United Kingdom

Driving here means the left-hand side of the road in a right-hand-drive car, and three separate charges sit on top of the daily rate: the Congestion Charge, the ULEZ and the Dartford Crossing. None of them is something to assume in advance — the arrangement is agreed when booking.

The Rules That Catch Out First-Time Visitors

• Keep left: Highway Code rule 160 puts you on the left unless signs or markings say otherwise, and rule 183 keeps you near the left edge when turning.
• Roundabouts: traffic already on the roundabout comes from your right, so you give way to it and travel clockwise (rule 185).
• Speed limits: 30 mph in built-up areas across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, 60 mph on single carriageways, 70 mph on dual carriageways and motorways.
• Lit roads: a road with street lighting is 30 mph unless a sign states another limit — and London has plenty of 20 mph zones, so read the signs rather than assume.
• Phones: holding a phone, satnav or tablet is illegal even while stopped at lights — £200 and 6 penalty points, and drivers within 2 years of passing lose their licence.
• Seat belts: required where fitted, and children need a child seat until they reach 135 cm or turn 12, whichever comes first — up to £500.

Charges Inside and Around the Capital

The Congestion Charge runs 07:00–18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00–18:00 at weekends and on bank holidays, at £18 a day paid on the day or in advance, or £21 up to midnight on the third day after the trip; it is not charged from 25 December to the New Year bank holiday inclusive. ULEZ operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week except 25 December, at £12.50 a day for vehicles that do not meet Euro 4 (petrol, roughly 2006 onwards) or Euro 6 (diesel, from September 2016). The Dartford Crossing on the M25 is £3.50 per crossing, or £2.80 prepaid, usually 06:00–22:00 every day. Who covers these charges is agreed when booking — ask before you set off, not after a penalty notice arrives.

Matching the Car to the Road

All ten of our SUVs are right-hand drive, so the learning curve is the mirror and the kerb. In our experience the auto models settle nerves fastest in stop-start traffic — eight of the ten are auto, and the two manuals are the Kia Sportage and the Nissan Qashqai. Three hybrids — the Toyota RAV4, Kia Sorento and Jeep Compass — recover charge in exactly the crawling conditions where a petrol engine drinks most. Book the seven-seat Kia Sorento early if you need it: there is one on this page.

Delivery of Your SUV Car Rental in United Kingdom

Rent-Trip brings the SUV to you rather than asking you to collect it. 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 — at an airport, a station or an address in the city. Outside those places delivery is arranged case by case and is not promised on the site, so confirm the address with the manager first rather than assuming it.

Where We Deliver an SUV

• 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, with a drive of roughly 70 minutes when the roads are clear.
• Stansted Airport (STN): about 57.9 km by road and 63 minutes; the meeting point at the airport is agreed with a manager.
• Luton Airport (LTN): roughly 56.9 km by road, around 63 minutes without traffic.
• City Airport (LCY): the closest of the six at about 14.5 km and 33 minutes.
• Southend Airport (SEN): the furthest at roughly 67.4 km and 74 minutes.
• St Pancras & King’s Cross, Euston, Paddington, Victoria, Waterloo, Canary Wharf, Wembley, ExCeL London and Mayfair: all inside the delivery area, so a train arrival or a hotel address works as a hand-over point.

What to Have Ready Before the Hand-Over

• Address and time: send both to the manager when you book, because the slot is fixed against them and a change later has to be re-agreed.
• Full-to-full fuel: the car arrives clean with a full tank and must go back full; any missing fuel and the 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.
• Road charges: who pays the Congestion Charge, the ULEZ charge and toll crossings is agreed when booking, not assumed at the kerb.

The Congestion Charge runs 07:00–18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00–18:00 at weekends and on bank holidays, at £18 a day paid on the day or in advance and £21 if paid by midnight on the third day after the trip; ULEZ applies 24 hours a day across all 32 boroughs except 25 December. On a longer booking those daily charges add up faster than the hire itself, so plan the days you actually drive into the centre rather than paying them for the whole rental.

Trip Scenarios for SUV Car Rental in United Kingdom

The same ten SUVs suit very different journeys, and the model that fits a city break rarely fits a two-week family stay. Matching the car to the trip is the decision that matters most.

A City Break in London

• Toyota RAV4: £40 daily, hybrid with all-wheel drive and a 2.5 L, 218 hp engine.
• Nissan Qashqai: 1.3 L petrol, 140 hp, manual — a compact 5-seat body that is easier to place in tight streets and multi-storey car parks.
• MG HS: 1.5 L petrol, 162 hp, automatic — an automatic at the lower end of the range for drivers who want two pedals in traffic.
• Peugeot 3008: 1.2 L petrol, 130 hp, automatic — the smallest engine on this page, which keeps the fuel line modest on short hops.

A city break rarely needs all-wheel drive or seven seats, so the money is better spent on the automatic gearbox than on size — eight of the ten models here are automatic.

A Week Touring Beyond the Capital

• Kia Sorento: 7 seats, 1.6 L hybrid, 230 hp, all-wheel drive — the only seven-seater and the most powerful engine in the class, at £49 a day.
• Ford Kuga: 1.5 L petrol, 150 hp, automatic, front-wheel drive, five seats at £48 a day.
• Jeep Compass: 1.5 L hybrid, 130 hp, automatic, front-wheel drive at £40 a day.
• Volkswagen Tiguan: 1.5 L petrol, 150 hp, automatic, front-wheel drive, five seats at £40 a day.

Touring means luggage in the boot for days at a time, so weigh boot room against seat count — the seven-seat Sorento gives up load space when its third row is in use.

A Long Stay or a Contract Booking

Monthly bookings run at the daily rate × 21, from £714, and the multiplier is fixed across all ten models. A long stay therefore rewards picking the car you actually want rather than the cheapest one, because the gap between £34 and £49 a day widens over 21 days. In our experience a month-long booking is the point where people stop asking about the daily rate and start asking about the weekly and monthly figures instead. The car is supplied with a full tank and must come back full, so a long hire begins and ends with the same refuelling stop.

SUV car rental in United Kingdom versus other classes

An SUV is not the smallest or the cheapest car on the road, and it is worth knowing what the class buys before you commit to it. Here is how the ten models on this page differ from what a smaller car would give you.

What the SUV Class Adds

• Seating: nine of the ten models seat five and one seats seven — a smaller class cannot offer the seven-seat Kia Sorento at all.
• Drive: all-wheel traction appears on two of the ten, the RAV4 and the Sorento, which matters on a wet motorway or a muddy car park field.
• Engine range: capacity runs from 1.2 L in the Peugeot 3008 to 2.5 L in the Toyota RAV4, with output from 130 hp to 230 hp.
• Fuel choice: three hybrids and seven petrol models, so the class covers both a low-speed city pattern and a steady motorway run.
• Gearbox: eight automatics against two manuals — the Sportage and the Qashqai are the manual pair.

The class is priced from £34 to £49 daily, and the spread inside it is wider than the class name suggests.

When a Smaller Car Would Serve Better

A compact SUV such as the Qashqai, at 1.3 L and 140 hp, or the 3008, at 1.2 L and 130 hp, covers the same five seats with a smaller body and a smaller engine. For one or two travellers with light luggage, the larger models in the fleet add size without adding seats. Fuel is the line where this shows: petrol stood at £1.75 a litre and diesel at £1.99 on 19.10.2026, and a bigger engine drinks more of it over the same distance. Match the body to the passenger count first, then to the roads.

Reading the SUV car rental in United Kingdom agreement

The rental agreement carries the figures this page does not: the deposit, the insurance excess, delivery fees and any discount. None of them is quoted here, so the agreement is where you read them.

What the Agreement Sets Out

• Deposit and excess: the deposit amount and the insurance excess are set out in the rental agreement, not on this page.
• Delivery fees: any fee for bringing the car to your address is set out in the rental agreement.
• Discounts: any discount that applies to your booking is set out in the rental agreement.
• Refuelling: the car is supplied with a full tank and must be returned full; missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement.
• Road charges: liability for the Congestion Charge, the ULEZ charge and toll crossings is settled at the time of booking.

Read those five lines before the booking is fixed rather than at the kerb, because each one changes the total cost of the hire.

Conditions Agreed When Booking

The minimum rental age, the young-driver surcharge, the cards accepted and any territory limit are agreed when booking — they are not stated on this page and are not a rule of the country. The same applies to where the car is handed over, on which day and at what hour: all three are settled with a manager before the booking is fixed. Ask about them in the same conversation in which you choose the model, so the car and the conditions arrive together. A full, valid foreign licence is accepted for 12 months from your last entry into Great Britain, which covers most visitor stays without further paperwork.

Common Mistakes on an SUV Car Rental in United Kingdom

Most of the trouble on a self-drive trip comes from four habits: booking the wrong size, assuming a charge is included, forgetting the tank policy and leaving the delivery address to the last minute. Each is easy to avoid at the booking stage.

Sizing and Seating Errors

• Counting seats, not people: the Kia Sorento is the only seven-seat SUV on this page, so a party of six has one car to book and no substitute if it is taken.
• Assuming a five-seater stretches: a five-seat model carries five and no more, whatever the luggage arrangement.
• Ignoring the boot: a full five-seat load leaves less room than the class name suggests, and a roof box is not listed on this page.
• Booking the dearest model by reflex: the Ford Kuga at £48 daily and the Toyota RAV4 at £40 daily both seat five — the difference is engine, drive and fuel, not capacity.

Size is decided by passenger count and luggage first, and by engine second.

Charges and Fuel Assumptions

• Treating charges as included: who pays the Congestion Charge, the ULEZ charge and the Dartford Crossing is settled at the time of booking.
• Driving into the centre every day: the Congestion Charge applies 07:00–18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00–18:00 at weekends and on bank holidays at £18 a day, or £21 if paid by midnight of the third day after.
• Forgetting the return tank: full-to-full is the only fuel option offered, so plan the last refuelling stop before you hand the car back.
• Leaving the address open: the delivery address, date and time are confirmed with a manager before the reservation is locked in, and a later change has to be re-agreed.

On a week's hire, five weekdays of Congestion Charge outweigh a day's rental on the cheapest model — plan the days you actually drive into the centre rather than paying for the whole booking.