Luxury SUV Rental in Los Angeles

Why the SUV shelf is the largest here

More vehicles than the other three body styles put together. The reason is geography rather than fashion. Los Angeles is a city of private driveways with a lip at the kerb, canyon roads with a crown down the middle, unpaved last miles above Malibu, and a speed hump in every residential street in the Hills. An SUV takes all of that without being thought about.

The second reason is people and luggage. Four adults with four large cases do not fit in a saloon and do fit in a Volkswagen Atlas. These have a third row an adult will sit in: the Atlas, the Lexus TX, the Chevrolet Traverse, the Ford Explorer and the Nissan Pathfinder. That is the difference between one run from the airport and two.

A full-size SUV wants a valet or an open bay rather than the older parking structures downtown and in Westwood, and we deliver it to the door either way. If the week is two people and a good road, the lower shelves are there for it too.

Choosing an SUV

The range runs further than anywhere else on the site. At one end the BMW X1, the Volkswagen Tiguan and the Mercedes GLB: small, simple to park, cheap enough by the day that a fortnight is not an extravagance. In the middle sit the BMW X5 and the Range Rover Sport.

At the top are the ones chosen for the badge rather than the boot: Rolls-Royce Cullinan, Bentley Bentayga, Maybach GLS 600, Lamborghini Urus, and the two square Mercedes, the G 550 and the AMG G 63. Beside them sits the four-wheel drive for the last mile, the Jeep Wrangler, whose roof panels come off by hand and whose last mile can be sand.

Six or seven seats, and what fits behind them

The seat counts: the Lexus TX is six seats across three rows, on captain’s chairs rather than a bench, at $159 a day. The Volkswagen Atlas, Chevrolet Traverse, Ford Explorer and Nissan Pathfinder put seven or eight belts on a bench second row, at $114, $114, $114 and $114 a day in that order. The Cadillac Escalade ESV and the Chevrolet Suburban and Tahoe add a third row too.

So if there are six of you, start with those. The ones taken for the badge — the Cullinan, the Bentayga, the Maybach GLS 600, the Urus and both square Mercedes — are five-seat vehicles, and six people do not fit in any of them. For six with a premium badge, the TX and the Cadillac Escalade ESV are the cars.

Seven belts is not seven suitcases. With the third row upright what is left behind it is a shelf, so seven people with a full-size case each is the Kia Carnival at $114 a day or the Honda Odyssey at $114, whose load floor drops between the rear wheels instead of sitting on top of them; above eight it is the Mercedes Sprinter at $2,000, which is listed at twelve seats. The seating capacity guide sets the certified counts against what actually fits.

Any of them goes to LAX for a fee, in two tiers stated by the trip: $150 both ways leaves the vehicle in the airport parking structure and you ride the free shuttle out to it, $300 both ways brings it to the terminal with somebody standing beside it — half of either for a single direction.

And the difference from a counter rental is what you are choosing. There you book a category and take whatever is in the bay; here you book a named model in a named colour, and it is delivered to the address you give.

Booking a luxury SUV in Los Angeles

An SUV rental in Los Angeles starts at twenty-four hours and runs to a monthly SUV rental. Rates by day, week and month sit on each model’s page and with the luxury car rental prices, with a refundable deposit taken at handover. Delivery goes to a hotel, a residence or an office anywhere in Los Angeles, CA, and is complimentary at our partner hotels in Beverly Hills. Drivers must be 21 with two years of licence history, a young-driver fee applies under 25, and you carry your own full-coverage insurance or take our Protection plan.

One more thing worth raising early, because it is what this shelf gets asked after the head count. Nevada, Arizona and the rest of the map are open to every car with notice before the rental starts, and an SUV is the shape people rent for it because the mileage allowance goes further on one than on an exotic. The FAQ covers it.

Who rents luxury SUVs in Los Angeles?

Nizo Luxury does — +1 (424) 303-6496. Luxury SUVs here start at $102 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.

I am visiting from Canada and have no US credit history. Can I still rent an SUV?

Yes. What is needed is a major credit card in the primary renter’s name — foreign-issued is fine, and no US credit history is checked — a passport alongside your home-country licence, and cover for the vehicle. We do not require an International Driving Permit. The refundable deposit on this shelf is $350 on the Nissan Pathfinder, the Chevrolet Traverse and the Ford Explorer, held against the card for the length of the rental and released after the car is back. Cover is either your own full-coverage policy, if it covers the replacement value, or our daily protection plan arranged with the booking.

Six of us are visiting Los Angeles — which luxury SUV takes six?

The Lexus TX at $159 a day, which is the one on this shelf built for exactly that: three rows and six seats, with boot space behind the third row rather than in front of it. It sits in the $500 deposit band, so the Protection plan is $75 a day, and delivery is complimentary at our Robertson Boulevard lot and the four Beverly Hills partner hotels. For six people who want the badge rather than the seats, the five-seat SUVs higher up this page are the other direction — but they are five seats, and a sixth person is not a squeeze, it is a second car.

We are a family of seven flying into LA — do you rent seven-seaters?

The three-row cars on this shelf are the Ford Explorer, the Chevrolet Traverse, the Volkswagen Atlas, the Nissan Pathfinder and the Lexus TX, from $114 a day. Row-three seat counts vary by the exact trim of the car we hold, so we confirm the seats for your specific car and dates in writing before you book.

If seven is firm and the luggage is real, the Mercedes Sprinter at $2,000 a day is the car — it takes the party and the cases in one vehicle instead of splitting you across two SUVs. Either way we meet the flight: send the flight number and the handover is timed to the aircraft that lands rather than the one on the schedule.

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.