Corporate Car Rental in Los Angeles
Nobody should mention the car.
Executive transport is judged by what it does not do. It is not late, it is not a talking point, and it does not produce an invoice anyone has to justify.
A car your client remembers is a car that went wrong.
Ground transport for business has one job and it is a negative one: remove a variable. The right car is the one nobody comments on, waiting where it said it would be, on an invoice that reads like every other line in the expense report. Below: which car for which meeting, and how the billing works.
The default
For most of what a company books — an executive in from out of town, a week of meetings across the basin, a director who would rather work than drive — the answer is a dark luxury saloon. It parks anywhere, it is quiet enough to take a call from the back seat, and it says nothing at all about the person getting out of it, which is the entire specification.
Colour matters more than badge here. The same car in white reads as a hire; in black it reads as arranged. We keep both and will send the black one unless you say otherwise.
The Beverly Hills week
For a few days of meetings in Beverly Hills, the car is the black BMW 7 Series, $230 a day. Ask for it with a driver and the driver is arranged with the car; ask for the keys and it is the same saloon on the same day rate. Say which when you book rather than after, because the two are arranged differently: the car carries its own daily rate, the driver is quoted on top of it, and the whole figure is in writing before anything is committed.
The white one is $125 a day. It is the same saloon; the difference is the one the section above describes, and it is worth what it is worth to you.
Delivery costs nothing at our four partner hotels — the Beverly Wilshire, the Four Seasons at Doheny, L’Ermitage and the Maybourne — or if you collect from the Robertson Boulevard lot; any other Beverly Hills address is priced by distance and confirmed before anything is committed. The saloon also carries the more generous mileage band, typically two hundred miles a day where the exotics carry less, with the figure for your car confirmed when you book.
When there are four of you
Two colleagues and luggage, or a client plus their team, and the saloon stops working — not for space in the back but for space in the boot. A full-size executive SUV takes four adults and four cases without anyone holding a bag on their knees between LAX and Century City.
For a whole team moving together, a Sprinter does in one vehicle what three cars do badly, and it keeps the group on one schedule instead of three. Say how many people and how many bags when you enquire and we will tell you which of the three shapes it actually is.
Remove a variable.
That is the whole brief.
The client dinner
There is one meeting a year where the point is the opposite — a signing dinner, a visiting principal, a party where arriving matters. That is the night for something with a badge, chauffeured, waiting outside when you come out. It is a deliberate exception and it should feel like one.
Everything else in the calendar is better served by the saloon. Spending the budget on the one evening that counts is a better use of it than spreading it thinly across a quarter of ordinary journeys.
Billing, insurance and the boring part
Company billing to a single invoice, agreed before the first journey, with the rate fixed for the whole period rather than recalculated per day. A certificate of insurance goes to your risk or legal contact on request and before the booking starts, not after somebody asks.
Delivery to the office, the hotel or the terminal, complimentary to our partner Beverly Hills hotels and quoted anywhere else across greater Los Angeles. Chauffeured or keys in hand — decide when you book, because the two are arranged differently. For repeat travel we hold a standing arrangement so the second booking is an email rather than a form.
See the whole Nizo fleet, or send the dates and the addresses and we will come back with a car and a number.
Cars that mean business
The executive shortlist. Where a card shows a date, that date is the live calendar and you can hold it now; the rest are prepared for the dates you name and confirmed the same day you ask.
Supercar Engine $300/day
Flush With Everything $286/day
Quilted And Quiet $230/day
Four Doors $229/day
Doors That Open Backwards $2,500/day
Chrome And Quiet $1,799/day