Convertible Car Rental in Los Angeles

Where to rent a convertible in Los Angeles

Right here, by the day: a convertible is booked on the car’s own page, with the dates and the rate in front of you, and it is brought to your hotel, your house or your Airbnb and collected from the same place — or you collect it at no charge from our Robertson Boulevard office. The shelf starts at $137 a day. From America: the Ford Mustang and the Chevrolet Corvette. From Germany: the Porsche Boxster, the Porsche 911 Cabriolet, the BMW 430i and M440i and the Audi A5. From Britain, the Rolls-Royce Dawn and the McLaren Artura Spider, and from Italy the Lamborghini Huracán Spider. Delivery is complimentary at our four Beverly Hills partner hotels; any other address is quoted with the car.

In most cities a convertible is a flourish. In Los Angeles it is the right tool for a specific job. It rains on something like three dozen days a year, the marine layer usually burns off by late morning, and the evenings hold their warmth into October. For most of the calendar there is no particular reason to put the roof up.

The job is the Pacific Coast Highway. From Santa Monica it runs the length of Malibu and on past Point Mugu — about two hours out and back with stops, the ocean on your left the whole way north. Inland, Mulholland Drive crosses the ridge above the city and the Angeles Crest climbs out of La Cañada into the San Gabriels. All three are better with nothing above you, and the roofs fold in seconds.

Luxury convertible rental: the Dawn, the Huracán Spider, the Artura Spider and the 911 Cabriolet

The Rolls-Royce Dawn at $1,500 a day is the open car for an arrival: four proper seats, a V12 that never raises its voice, and a roof that folds in silence at a hotel forecourt. It is the wedding send-off and the dinner in Montecito, and it goes out with a driver as readily as with the keys.

The Lamborghini Huracán Spider at $1,299 is the V10 with the roof off, which is the reason to take it: the sound is the point and it is better with nothing over you. The McLaren Artura Spider at $1,350 is the quieter supercar, a hybrid V6 with a hard top that folds behind the seats. The Porsche 911 Cabriolet, from $1,200, is the luxury convertible you could drive every day of the week — two small rear seats, a fabric roof, the flat-six behind you.

These four rent on the exotic terms: a refundable deposit of $2,000 or more and the Protection plan at the higher band, each car's own figures on its page and in the quote before you pay. If the brief is a sports car with the roof off rather than an arrival, the sports car shelf sets them beside their closed versions.

Every open car we rent, by seats and by road

Two seats and a low roofline: the Porsche Boxster, the mid-engined Chevrolet Corvette, the Huracán Spider and the Artura Spider. Four seats and a boot worth using: the Ford Mustang, the BMW 430i and M440i, the Audi A5, the 911 Cabriolet with its two small rear seats, and the Dawn.

Pick by the road rather than the badge. The Boxster is the canyon car and the one to book for Mulholland. The Corvette and the Mustang are coast cars, happier on a long run north than on a hairpin. The 430i and the A5 still work on Monday morning with two colleagues in the back, and the M440i is the same open BMW with a six-cylinder and more of everything. For two people and one weekend bag, which is the correct amount of luggage for Santa Barbara, the Boxster is the two-seater. The 911 Targa, whose roof panel folds away behind a brushed hoop, sits with the sports cars: half-open rather than open.

Convertible, cabriolet or cabrio — and drop-top, roadster, spider

Nobody agrees on what to call these cars. The trade says convertible, Germany says cabriolet and shortens it to cabrio, America says drop-top, and a strict two-seater is a roadster — or a spider, if it is Italian. We do not mind which word you use: a cabrio rental, a cabriolet rental or a drop-top car in Los Angeles end at the same short list of keys.

A large part of Los Angeles does its business in Spanish, and a fair share of the people who ask us about open cars ask in Spanish. We answer in Spanish, the same day. Si busca renta de carros convertibles en Los Ángeles, escríbanos en español: le contestamos el mismo día. Entregamos en hoteles, casas y oficinas de Los Ángeles, y también en LAX.

What a convertible costs to rent in Los Angeles

The day rate runs from $137 — $137 for the BMW 430i, $137 for the Audi A5 — through $199 for the Mustang and $286 for the Boxster, to $349 for the Corvette — and from $1,200 to $1,500 for the luxury convertibles above. Each car’s page carries its daily rate, with the five-day and twenty-one-day figures where that car has them — the Dawn and the Huracán Spiders do not, and hold one rate at any length — and the rates page carries the same.

Outside the rate sit a refundable security deposit, held against the card and returned 5–7 business days after the car comes back — $500 on the Mustang and the 430i, $750 on the Corvette and the Boxster, $2,000 or more on the open exotics — and cover: your own full-coverage insurance or our Protection plan, priced off that deposit. Drivers are 21 or over with two years of licence history; between 21 and 25 the young-driver fee is $50 a day on the everyday open cars and $175 on the exotics. All of it, with Los Angeles County sales tax, is in the quote at book now before anything is paid.

Convertible hire in Los Angeles: booking, delivery and LAX

You can rent a convertible in LA for a single day or for a month. Delivery goes to a hotel, an office, or a house you are renting — a short let or an Airbnb is an ordinary handover here, not a special case — and the Westside is the short half of the map: Santa Monica, Venice, Marina del Rey and Playa Vista are routine, as is Malibu when the week is a beach week. It costs nothing at our four partner hotels in Beverly Hills — the Beverly Wilshire, the Four Seasons at Doheny, L’Ermitage and the Maybourne — or if you collect the car from the Robertson Boulevard lot; any other address is quoted with the car before you pay.

Convertible car hire at LAX is the one that is priced rather than quoted, in two tiers by the trip: $150 both ways leaves the car in the airport parking structure for you to collect off the free shuttle, and $300 both ways brings it to the terminal, half that for one direction. Send the flight number either way and it is timed to when the aircraft lands rather than when it was meant to. We collect it at the end, so there is no counter to find.

Every rental carries a daily mileage allowance, quoted per day, multiplied by the days you have booked, and settled once when the car comes back rather than policed at midnight. It is set per car and confirmed with the booking. The drive this page is about — Santa Monica out past Point Mugu and home — is about ninety-five miles; Big Sur is another matter, so name it when you enquire. Nevada and Arizona are open to every car with notice; the rest is on the FAQ.

Same-day is often possible. Two or three days’ notice holds the car and the colour you want, and summer weekends go first.

Who rents convertibles in Los Angeles?

Nizo Luxury does — +1 (424) 303-6496. Convertibles here start at $137 a day; we bring the car to your hotel or your home, or you collect it at no charge from our office on Robertson Boulevard.

Where can I rent a convertible near me in Los Angeles?

Wherever you are staying. Every convertible here is delivered — to your hotel, your house, your Airbnb or your office anywhere across Los Angeles — at the hour you name, and collected from the same place at the end. Delivery is complimentary at our four partner hotels in Beverly Hills and collection from our Robertson Boulevard office costs nothing; any other address is priced in the quote before you pay. Same-day is often possible: call +1 (424) 303-6496.

Can a convertible meet me at LAX?

Yes. Convertible car hire at LAX is priced by the trip in two tiers: $150 both ways leaves the car in the airport parking structure — you are told where and ride the free shuttle out to it — and $300 both ways brings it to the terminal with somebody standing beside it; half of either for a single direction. Send the flight number and it is timed to when the aircraft lands rather than when it was meant to.

Can I take a convertible from Los Angeles up to Big Sur for four days?

Yes, and the thing to settle before you go is the mileage rather than the car. Bixby Bridge is roughly three hundred miles one way — about six hundred there and back. The allowance here is quoted per day, multiplied by the days you have booked, and settled once when the car comes back rather than policed at midnight.

The allowance is set per car, so name Big Sur when you enquire and the allowance for the car you want is quoted with it, together with the per-mile figure for anything past it, printed on the agreement before you sign. The mileage article works every drive out of Los Angeles against the number.

I am 24 — will you rent me a convertible in Los Angeles?

Yes. Twenty-one is the floor here rather than twenty-five, with a licence held two years, so a twenty-four-year-old can take any car on this page. Under 25 a young-driver fee applies per day, and it follows the car's deposit: $50 a day on the everyday open cars — the Mustang, the Boxster, the Corvette and the BMWs — and $175 a day on the open exotics, whose deposit is $1,500 or more. The fee, the refundable deposit and the Protection plan are all in the quote at book now before anything is paid.

Will you bring a convertible to a house we are renting in Venice?

Yes, and it is an ordinary booking rather than a favour. Venice, Marina del Rey, Playa Vista and Santa Monica sit inside the Westside run the cars go out on every day, and a short-let house or an Airbnb is a handover like any other — the only real difference from a hotel forecourt is that somebody named on the rental has to be at the address to receive the car. We collect it from the same address at the end.

Delivery to a Venice address is $150 in the online quote, itemised beside the rate, the cover and the deposit before anything is charged. What each point costs is set out on the delivery page. For a week in a Venice house, the Mustang and the Corvette are the ones for the run north.

Can we rent a convertible for a wedding getaway?

Yes — the getaway is what an open car is for. The Rolls-Royce Dawn with the roof down is the classic send-off, four seats and the coast road behind it; the BMW 430i is the four-seat drop-top at an everyday rate. Either is delivered to the venue at the hour you name. Timing, decoration and a driver for the exit are covered under wedding convertible rentals in Los Angeles.

Can I have one of these with a driver?

Yes — any car on this page can go out with a chauffeur instead of the keys: from $100 an hour on a two-hour minimum, added to the car at its day rate. A chauffeured booking has no age floor to meet and no cover of your own to arrange, and no security deposit is taken.