Age Restriction When Renting Cars

All car hire companies have age restrictions on who can drive their fleet of rental cars. This age varies both from company to company and also depending on which country you want to hire a car in.

Age restrictions can allow young drivers to rent cars from 18 years old in some cases, but often go up as high as 25 before you don’t need to worry about it anymore. With some luxury car hire firms the minimum rental age can be much higher, even as high as 45 on some sports cars like Ferraris.

As with additional drivers, young drivers may often have to pay a premium for hiring a car. In most cases this additional cost can be justified by the extra insurance cost to the rental company for hiring cars to drivers between the ages of say, 21 to 25.

For corporate car rentals these rules sometimes don’t apply as the company will have a separate agreement with the rental firm to cover the additional insurance liability of hiring to young drivers.

Of course age restrictions don’t only apply to young drivers. If you’re advancing in years it pays to check whether you’re still allowed to rent a car. Some companies will stop renting to you after you’re 75th birthday for example.

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