Automatic Car Hire

Multiple Car Rental Companies in One Search

We at Automatic Car Hire believe in true cost comparison. We built the technology and commercial relationships to bring you the easiest and quickest way to find your ideal car hire.

With multiple brokers we have more coverage and better vehicle selection than any singular car rental supplier. With each broker using different suppliers, we are also confident of having the majority of the car rental suppliers on our searches.

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Fuel Policies

They Do Differ From Supplier to Supplier

Once upon a time car rental was a similar package no matter where you picked it up. The fuel tank was full, you had an insurance excess on CDW / Theft and you had to return the vehilce full with fuel. If you didn’t you were charged a premium cost for the fact the rental company had to fill it up.

Well then for Car Hire Spain it all got very competitive, the cost of holidays reduced and a handful of rental companies thought of a great way of getting the edge over the big boys. Thus was born the concept of giving zero excess on insurance, charging the customer for the fuel in the car and asking them to return it empty.

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Ryanair Destinations

Car Hire and the
Facilities

I recently went on holiday to Italy, renting a campervan from Bologna Forli and taking it down the Adriatic Coast. One thing that did strike me was the size of the airport and facilities on offer.

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On the car select screen through Automatic Car Hire you can see every single product available directly through any of our car rental broker partners.

What this means is that specialty vehicles with additional extras such as Satellite Navigation are clearly displayed and guaranteed on that vehicles. This is something we can do while other larger comparison sites such as Travelsupermarket.com have to group their cars by size meaning you don’t see the true car model until you click through the supplier’s sites.

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Off Road?

Check your Car Hire Insurance Details

We all dream of taking our rental car (4×4 or not) off road for some real action, possibly traversing the beach or even tackling that mountain track – well unfortunately you may not be insured to do that.

Automatic Car Hire takes another look at car hire insurance and the exclusions found in rental car companies insurance clauses. This time we look at the industry standard non allowance of taking rental cars off public highways.

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7 Seat Vans

Automatics Available

7 Seat Vans are traditionally more difficult to confirm than other types of vehicles within the fleet due mainly to high demand, low stock and the cost of the vehicles themselves.

You would think that the chance of an Automatic MPV Hire would be low due to the additional cost of an automatic transmission. Automatic Car Hire searched our car hire brokers to see what is out there on the market in key destinations

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Booking With Us

One search, three steps and you are booked!

To learn Irish or to read every Harry Potter book would take ages, but booking a rental car with Automatic Car Hire will only take you minutes.

Here Automatic Car Hire give you the reasons why we are the best choice to search the market in seconds.

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Car Hire Germany

Home of the autobahns with no speed limits

Germany – inventor of the motorway, automatic transmission and home of a host of car companies which own quite a few other car companies world-wide. What else makes Germany a first class car hire destination?

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USA

Where you are guaranteed an automatic practically everywhere

With multiple suppliers giving us the full content of top USA car rental suppliers such as Alamo, Hertz and Avis we have America covered. One of our suppliers Auto Europe are even an American company with their HQ in Portland, Maine with over 50 years experience in the American travel industry.

Automatics are the norm in the USA with the first automatic transmission for cars being developed by US car companies – see our automatic history for more details. So you can expect a fantastic range of vehicles to choose from starting with the surprisingly spacious Chevy Aveo sized Economy vehicle up to the luxury and premium vehicles such as the Buick Park Avenue. The American models although based on our scale are actually, like everything else in the USA, larger than their European counterparts.

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USA: Home of the Automatic

As part of the the US series we take a look at what we can offer you stateside from our featured brokers.

With prominent suppliers partnering with our brokers such as Hertz and Alamo you can be assured of quality for your holiday to the USA. In the US Automatics come as standard in the rental industry, you will have an excellent choice of guaranteed automatic transmission vehicles if you search our unrivaled coverage across America.

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