Sport & Exotic Car Rental in Los Angeles

Ninety minutes from Sunset

Los Angeles is one of the few American cities where the drive is the reason for the outing rather than the price of it. From Sunset you are forty minutes from Mulholland, an hour from Latigo Canyon above Malibu, and ninety minutes from the Angeles Crest Highway, which climbs out of La Cañada and keeps climbing for fifty miles. The good roads near the city are short, empty on a weekday morning, and they are the whole argument for a sports car rather than something with four doors.

Two seats and one soft bag are the point: the car is built around the driver, and it arrives at the door so no garage ramp ever comes into it. On Sunset after eight the car is filmed at each set of lights, which is half of why people rent it.

Keep it for the week and every morning is a canyon morning: the Crest early before the motorcycles are up, Sunset at night, the car at the door all week. If the trip is really about moving four people and their luggage across the county, the luxury SUVs do that and this shape does not.

Quick and loud, but not a supercar

For a quick, loud weekend there is also a band below the supercars, spread across three shelves. These are the cars in it, each with the day rate it takes today.

Audi RS 3 — $171 a day. 401 horsepower, five seats, all-wheel drive, and a boot. The five-cylinder makes the noise; the rest of the car asks nothing of you for the other six days.

Mercedes-AMG GT 43 — $229 a day. 362 horsepower, four doors, all-wheel drive. The one to take when somebody else is coming and the evening does not end where it started.

Porsche Boxster — $286 a day. 300 horsepower, two seats, mid-engined and rear-driven, with a fabric roof that drops in seconds. Of these six it is the one drawn for Latigo rather than for Sunset.

Chevrolet Corvette C8 — $349 a day. 490 horsepower, a 6.2-litre V8 under glass behind your shoulders, 0–60 in about 2.9 seconds. This is the one strangers talk to you about at petrol stations.

Ford Mustang — $199 a day. 310 horsepower, four seats, a soft top. American muscle, and happier on a long run up the coast than on the tight stuff above Malibu.

BMW 430i Convertible — $137 a day. 255 horsepower, four seats, rear-drive, a fabric roof that folds in seconds. The open BMW, and no more car than a sunny Saturday needs.

The RS 3 and the Corvette sit on this page. The GT 43 is filed with the saloons and the Boxster, the Mustang and the 430i with the convertibles; they book, deliver and hand back exactly as the cars on this page do.

What they share, and what the asker is really buying, is that they rent on the ordinary terms rather than the exotic ones. The refundable deposit is $750 on the RS 3, the GT 43, the Boxster and the Corvette and $500 on the Mustang and the 430i, against the $2,000 an exotic carries. The Protection plan is priced off that deposit, so it runs $100 a day on the first four and $75 a day on the other two, where an exotic takes $225. And the young-driver supplement between 21 and 24 is $50 a day on all of them rather than the $175 a day the exotic band attracts. The daily mileage allowance is confirmed with the car.

Two days is two days of the rate. The first block price on this site is the five-day one and the quote reaches for it only from five days up, so a Friday-to-Sunday booking is the day rate twice, with cover and Los Angeles County sales tax on top — both of them in the quote before you pay rather than at handover. If the decision comes down to the three in the middle, the GT 43, the Boxster and the Corvette are set against each other car by car: four doors, an open roof, or a V8 behind your head.

The cars on this page

They fall into three groups, and it is worth knowing which is which before you book. The Chevrolet Corvette is mid-engined, American, and the least intimidating way onto those roads: a 6.2-litre V8 behind your shoulders, two seats, and a boot that takes a weekend if you pack softly.

Then the exotics proper. The Lamborghini Huracáns, the closed Evo and the open Spiders, all on the naturally aspirated V10 that revs to eight and a half thousand and is the reason anybody books one. And the Ferrari 488, mid-engined and twin-turbocharged, which is the quieter car of the two Italians until it is not. The BMW M4 rents on the same exotic deposit: a twin-turbo straight-six in a four-seat coupé, booked for the canyon rather than the commute.

The Rolls-Royce Wraith and the Dawn are the arrival cars on this page. The Wraith is a four-seat fastback with coach doors and a V12 that never raises its voice; the Dawn is the same idea with the roof taken off. Rent one for the arrival, not for the Crest.

And the odd one out. The Audi RS 3 is a five-seat saloon with a boot, four hundred and one horsepower, and a five-cylinder engine nobody else still builds. It has five seats, a boot and all-wheel drive for a damp morning on the nearest mountain, and it is as happy on the school run as on the Crest.

American muscle, on this shelf, is the Ford Mustang at $199 a day — two doors, four seats and the long bonnet the genre is named for, filed with the convertibles because the roof folds. It is happier on a long run up the coast than on the tight stuff above Malibu, and it books the same way as anything here.

The terms that only apply here

Mulholland, Latigo and the Angeles Crest are what these cars go out for, and every term that decides a canyon booking is better had as a figure than as an adjective. Most of the fleet rents on one set of conditions and the exotics on another, and the deposit decides which one applies.

A Corvette at $349 a day carries a $750 refundable security deposit, $100 a day for the Protection plan unless your own qualifying policy replaces it, and a young-driver supplement of $50 a day for a driver aged 21 to 24. A Huracán at $1,799 a day carries a $2,000 deposit, $225 a day of cover, and a supplement of $175 a day at the same ages. Nothing but the deposit decides which set applies: the cover band and the supplement both step up at $1,500, so a car's deposit tells you the whole of its terms.

The deposit is a hold rather than a charge, taken at handover against a credit card in the primary renter’s name, and it is returned 5–7 business days after the car comes back. Drivers under 25 are not turned away from this shelf: the floor is 21 with two years of licence history, as it is everywhere else on the site, and the supplement above is what the age costs. The daily mileage allowance is set per car and quoted with it.

Every car here may leave the state — tell us before the rental starts, so the destination is on the agreement and the mileage is planned. The allowance is per car and shorter on the exotics, which is what decides a long run rather than a rule about the state line: the canyon roads these cars go out for — Mulholland, Latigo, the Crest — are all inside it and cost the allowance almost nothing.

Nevada, Arizona and anywhere else are open to every car on this page; tell us the destination and the mileage is planned on the agreement. You will need your own full-coverage insurance, collision and comprehensive to the replacement value of the car, or our Protection plan instead. Every driver must be 21 or over with two years of licence history and named on the agreement, and renters from outside the United States need a passport alongside the home licence, and nothing more — we do not require an International Driving Permit. The FAQ carries the rest.

Renting one in LA

To rent a sports car in Los Angeles, the minimum is twenty-four hours; sports car rental here runs by the day, the week or the month. Every car carries a daily figure, and where it also carries a five-day or twenty-one-day block that block is printed on its own page and with the luxury car rental prices — several of the exotics carry neither and hold one rate at any length. Current sports car rental deals are on the specials page.

There is no counter and no queue: we deliver to a hotel, a residence or an office, complimentary at our partner hotels in Beverly Hills, and we collect the car at the end. Delivery to LAX is arranged against a flight number, so the car meets the aircraft that landed rather than the one on the schedule.

Notice is what decides which car you get. Same-day rental happens more often than people expect and is always worth a call. A weekday in February needs nothing. A Saturday in July, in a particular colour, needs a few days, because most of these cars are held in one colour and there is no second Ferrari.

Who rents sports cars in Los Angeles?

Nizo Luxury does — +1 (424) 303-6496. Sports cars here start at $171 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.

What do you rent that is quick and loud but not a full supercar?

The Chevrolet Corvette at $349 a day is the direct answer: mid-engined, two seats, and a roof panel that comes out with two hands. It is a supercar layout at roughly a fifth of what the supercars on this page cost. Under it, the Audi RS3 at $171 a day is the five-cylinder saloon that makes the noise and still carries four people and their luggage. Both sit in the $750 deposit band, which puts the Protection plan at $100 a day, and twenty-four hours is the shortest booking — so a couple of days is two days on the agreement whichever way the hours fall.

Which of these cars suits the canyon roads above Los Angeles?

The Corvette is the one built for them — mid-engined, short, and happier being steered than being pointed. The RS3 drives all four wheels, which is the one that forgives a damp morning on Mulholland or a shaded corner on Angeles Crest. The Huracán is the one for the long sweepers of the Crest. Every car on this page carries its rate, deposit, cover and a live calendar on its own page, so you can settle the car and the dates in one place.

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.