How Much It Actually Costs to Rent a Lamborghini in Los Angeles

Search this question and you get a range — a thousand to twenty-five hundred, prices vary, request a quote. That is not an answer. There are two Lamborghini rates in Los Angeles, not a range, and the day rate is the smallest of five lines on the bill.

We keep six Lamborghinis on Robertson Boulevard: three Urus and three Huracáns. The Urus is $999 a day. Every Huracán is $1,799 a day. Those are the numbers, they are the same numbers on the car's own page, and everything else on this page is what sits around them.

The reason the range answers are useless is that they average two completely different vehicles. A Urus is a five-seat SUV with a boot. A Huracán is a two-seat mid-engined supercar. Averaging them produces a figure that describes neither, and then the deposit, the mandatory cover and the airport arrive and the number moves again. So: the ladder first, then each line under it. If you want the same treatment across every marque we hold, that is what exotic car rental actually costs in Los Angeles; the live figures by model sit on the Lamborghini rental price guide.

The ladder, all six cars

Car	Body	Day rate	Refundable deposit
Urus, green	Super-SUV, 5 seats	$999	$1,500
Urus, yellow	Super-SUV, 5 seats	$999	$1,500
Urus, black	Super-SUV, 5 seats	$999	$1,500
Huracán Evo	Coupé, 2 seats	$1,799	$2,000
Huracán Evo Spider	Open-top, 2 seats	$1,799	$2,000
Huracán Spider, matte black	Open-top, 2 seats	$1,799	$2,000

Two rates. Colour does not change the price on either model, which surprises people who assume the yellow one costs more because it photographs better. It does not. Pick the colour you want and pay the same.

The gap between the two rates is eight hundred dollars a day, and it buys a completely different object rather than more of the same one. Before you spend it, read the last section of this page.

The deposit is a hold, not a charge

A Urus takes $1,500 and a Huracán takes $2,000, refundable, placed as an authorisation on the primary driver's credit card at handover rather than taken as a payment. It is not money that leaves your account. It is money your bank stops you from spending until we release it, which we do after the car comes back, and which lands 5–7 business days later depending on your issuer rather than on us.

Two things follow from that and both catch people out. The first is that the hold sits on top of the rental charge, so a card with a $5,000 limit does not comfortably carry a three-day Huracán and a $2,000 authorisation at the same time. The second is that it must be a credit card in the driver's own name — a debit card, a spouse's card or a company card in somebody else's name will stop the handover at the kerb, which is a bad place to find out.

The deposit is also the number that quietly sets two other lines on this page. The cover band is chosen by it, and so is the young-driver fee. Both are below.

Cover is mandatory, and it is not the day rate

Every rental needs collision and comprehensive cover for the car's replacement value. What you choose is whose policy provides it, not whether to have it. If you bring a qualifying policy of your own, you bring it. If you do not, we price it, and it is in the quote before you pay rather than sold to you at the kerb with the keys in someone's hand.

Cover is priced by the car's deposit band, and every Lamborghini here sits in the top one — the Urus at $1,500 and the Huracán at $2,000 are both above the threshold. On a car in that band the cover line is $225 added for each rental day. On a two-day Urus that is $450, which is roughly a quarter of the car itself, and it is the single most common reason a quote comes in above what somebody expected.

Before you assume your credit card handles it, check. Several major issuers exclude exotic and high-value vehicles from their rental benefit by name, and a Lamborghini is squarely inside every definition of the term. We have written the whole thing up in whether AmEx covers an exotic rental in LA.

Does a week cost less per day? Mostly not, and here is why

There is no percentage discount here and nobody should offer you one. What the quote does instead is hold up to three prices for each car — one day, a five-day block and a twenty-one-day block — and charge whichever combination covers your dates most cheaply. Usually that is better than a discount. On the Lamborghinis specifically, it is worth knowing exactly where it bites, because the honest answer is: later than you think.

The Urus carries a five-day block printed at $4,999. Five days at the day rate come to $4,995. The block is four dollars dearer, so the arithmetic never chooses it, and a seven-day Urus booking bills as seven days at $999 a day — $6,993. The Huracán has no five-day block printed against it at all, so the same is true for a simpler reason: a week is $12,593, which is seven days at $1,799 a day and nothing else.

The one place length genuinely moves the number is at three weeks, and only on the Urus. A twenty-one-day block prices at $16,999 against $20,979 for the same three weeks charged by the day, which is $3,980 of real difference. Ask by car and by date rather than assuming, because the block is not printed against every Urus in the fleet and the quote is what decides.

Under 25: the surcharge is the same on all six

Drivers under 25 can be approved, and where they are there is a young-driver fee. It is $50 a day across the general fleet, and $175 a day once a car's deposit reaches $1,500. Every Lamborghini here is at or above that line, which makes this simple: on any of the six, the under-25 surcharge is $175 a day.

On a two-day Urus that adds $350 to a $1,998 rental, before cover and before tax. Whether an under-25 driver is approved at all is a separate question from the fee and it depends on the car — the bar is higher on the two-seat exotics than on the SUV. Ask before you plan a birthday around it, because the answer arrives from a person rather than from a form.

Fuel, tax and getting the car to you

Three lines nobody quotes and everybody pays.

• Fuel. The EPA rates the Lamborghini Urus at 14 mpg combined — 12 in the city — and the Huracán at 15 combined. Both take premium and nothing else. A weekend of canyon roads and Sunset traffic is two fills, and in a Urus a fill is not small.
• Tax. Los Angeles County sales tax is 9.75%, applied to the whole booking rather than to the day rate alone. On a two-day Urus with cover that is $238.68.
• Delivery. Collection from us on Robertson costs nothing, and delivery to our partner Beverly Hills hotels — the Beverly Wilshire, the Four Seasons at Doheny, L'Ermitage — is complimentary. Any other address is quoted.

The airport is its own arrangement and it is priced per direction in two tiers. LAX delivery is $75 standard, where we leave the car in the airport parking structure and you take the shuttle out to it — about half an hour end to end, and awkward with a lot of luggage. It is $150 VIP, where the car is at the terminal and somebody is standing beside it with your name. Because it is per direction, the combinations are $150 for a standard round trip, $300 for terminal delivery both ways, and $225 for terminal in and parking structure out, which is what most people take. The whole airport question is in the LAX luxury car delivery guide.

A real weekend, added up

Friday to Sunday in a Urus, delivered to a partner hotel in Beverly Hills, driver over 25, cover taken from us. Two rental days.

The same weekend in a Huracán Evo is $3,598 for the car, $450 of cover, $394.68 of tax and $4,442.68 paid, against a $2,000 hold. A single day in a Huracán, which is the most common booking we take, is $1,799 plus $225 of cover plus tax — $2,221.34.

Add $175 a day if the driver is under 25. Add the airport if the car is meeting a flight. Nothing else appears later.

Why the numbers you found elsewhere are lower

They usually are, and there are only three reasons for it. The first is that the figure is another city — Miami and Las Vegas price Lamborghinis differently and a quote from either tells you nothing useful about this market. The second is a mileage cap tight enough that a run to Palm Springs and back costs more in excess miles than a day of the rental. The third, and the most common, is that the advertised number is the car alone, with cover, deposit handling and delivery arriving afterwards.

The US Federal Trade Commission's guidance on renting a car makes the same point about the industry in general: the advertised rate and the amount actually charged are routinely two different documents, and the deposit and add-on fees are where the difference lives. That is precisely why this page prints all five lines rather than one.

Every Lamborghini here carries a daily mileage allowance, named in the agreement before you sign rather than discovered after. If the plan has distance in it, say so when you enquire; a longer booking can carry a different allowance and arranging that up front is cheaper than settling it at the end. Anything about changing or ending a booking is governed by the terms and conditions and nothing else.

Which one, for the money

If the badge is the point, the Urus is the cheapest way to it and it seats five with luggage. If the drive is the point, nothing about a Urus replaces a V10 behind your shoulders, and the eight hundred dollars a day is buying a different experience rather than a faster SUV. If you cannot decide, the two questions worth asking are how many people are coming and what happens after the photograph — a Huracán takes two people and a soft bag.

Two further pages if the decision is not really about money: coupé or Spider if you have settled on a Huracán, and Ferrari against Lamborghini if the badge itself is still open. The Urus against the other super-SUVs at this end of the market is Urus vs Bentayga vs G 63.

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