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The Sunny's card above shows 250 km a day and every other Nissan on the grid shows 300. The reason is plain: the 2020 Sunny is the cheapest car on the whole fleet, and the cheapest car carries the smallest allowance. Bintali rents the Nissan Sunny, Kicks and Patrol in Dubai, and each card shows its own daily kilometre allowance, so read that number first. Rent Nissan cars in Dubai for city driving and the Sunny's figure never bites. Put a Nissan Sunny rental in Dubai on the Abu Dhabi commute five days a week and it does. The rest of the grid is one decision: Sunny or Kicks for the daily drive, and whether you need the Patrol.
What 250 km a day actually covers
Inside Dubai, 250 km a day is more than most people drive in three. Marina to DIFC and back is under 50 km, Silicon Oasis to Media City and back is about 90, and a weekend that adds Global Village and a Jumeirah beach run still sits well under the line. The trip that breaks it is Abu Dhabi. Downtown to the Corniche and back is about 280 km, so a Sunny doing that commute overruns its allowance every working day, and a Kicks at 300 clears it with almost nothing to spare. The allowance scales with the length of the booking, so a month in the Sunny is judged on the month's total rather than night by night, but it's still the Sunny's total. If the Abu Dhabi run is the job, book the Kicks or the Patrol and let the Sunny do what it's built for.
What it's built for is the city. It's a 2020 car with a 1.6-litre engine, a CVT, a 490-litre boot and a 41-litre tank, and it's the oldest car on the grid by some distance. Nothing about it is quick. Everything about it is known, including to every workshop in Al Quoz.
Sunny or Kicks for the daily drive
Take the Kicks for tower car parks and the high seat, and the Sunny for the boot and the budget. The Kicks has the same 1.6-litre engine in a taller body, which makes it easier to load with a child seat fitted and easier to see out of in Deira traffic, and its cabin is three or four model years newer. What it gives up is luggage. The Sunny's 490 litres is the bigger boot of the two, and for an airport pickup with two large cases the sedan swallows them without a fight.
Between the 2023 and 2024 Kicks, take the 2024. They're the same car mechanically, so the difference is kilometres on the clock and colour, and as listed the 2024 is the white one, which matters more than it sounds when the car has sat in a Kite Beach car park through an August afternoon.
If the Sunny feels dated next to what's on the other grids, it is. The MG5 and the Geely Emgrand are the newer sedans at the same end of the fleet, with bigger screens and more recent model years. Against the Kicks, the Geely Coolray and the Haval Jolion are the newer compact crossovers, and the Kicks answers with familiarity: a drivetrain every workshop in the city has seen a thousand times.
The Patrol: eight seats, sand, and the deposit
The 2024 Patrol is the only Nissan here that earns its keep off the tarmac, and the only car on the whole fleet that seats eight. It has the 5.6-litre V8, four-wheel drive with low range, 273 mm of ground clearance, and 468 litres behind the third row, which is four large cases with every seat in use. The Chevrolet Tahoe on its own grid is the direct rival and seats seven, so for two families sharing one car the eighth seat is the whole decision. For five people who want a big, quiet highway car, either works, and the Tahoe has the bigger boot at every seat setting, 722 litres behind its third row against the Patrol's 468.
Whether the Patrol can leave the road is confirmed at booking, car by car, so ask when you book rather than at the Al Qudra car park. The Hatta road is tarmac the whole way and needs nothing. The wadi tracks beyond it and the dunes off the Al Ain road are a different conversation, and one to have before the day.
It's also the expensive car on this grid, which is where the security deposit turns into a real sum. You can skip it by choosing the no-deposit option for a small extra fee at checkout. Where a deposit is taken, it's refunded within 15 to 25 days after the car comes back. The Patrol also goes first on long weekends and through the December school holidays, so book it ahead of the Sunny and the Kicks, which are easier to get at short notice.
Which Nissan to rent in Dubai
For a month of commuting inside Dubai, the Sunny. For the same month with a child seat, tower parking and the odd Sharjah run, the 2024 Kicks. For Hatta with everyone aboard, a desert day, or eight people, the Patrol, booked early.
If the Patrol never leaves tarmac, the V8 and the parking will make you wish you'd booked the Kicks, because Downtown's ramps were not drawn for a car this wide. If what you pictured was an X-Trail or an Altima, neither is on the grid. The honest substitute for the Altima is the Mazda 6 among the sedans, and for the X-Trail it's the Mazda CX-5, which is the size of car you had in mind.
The only trap on this grid is the Sunny's 250. Match it to the trip and the rest of the brand picks itself.
FAQ — Common Questions Answered.
Can I take the Nissan Patrol off-road in Dubai?
Only where it's confirmed at booking, and the useful thing is to say exactly where you're going when you ask. "Off-road" covers a graded gravel track and the dunes at Al Badayer, and the two can get different answers for the same car. If it's agreed, check the spare wheel and the tyre pressures at handover, because a Patrol that's been let down for sand and then driven back to the city on soft tyres is how a good day ends with a ruined tyre. Go in convoy with someone who has driven the route, since a Patrol with eight aboard buried to the sills is a long afternoon even for people who've done it before. And if the answer for the car on your dates is no, ask the same question about the Tahoe on the Chevrolet grid before you give up on the weekend.
Is a 2020 Nissan Sunny too old to rent?
No, though it's the car on the grid where the handover deserves five minutes rather than one. Six Dubai summers show in the small things, so before you sign, run the air conditioning and give it a minute to blow properly cold, check the tread on all four tyres, and make sure every existing scuff is in the handover photos. The mechanical side is the least of it: a non-turbo 1.6 and a CVT have nothing exotic to fail, and the CVT's drone under hard acceleration is the gearbox type, not a fault. What you don't get is a modern cabin, so if a big screen matters to you, the 2024 Kicks is the Nissan to book instead.
Is the Nissan Kicks comfortable at 120 km/h on Sheikh Zayed Road?
Yes for cruising, with one caveat about the engine. The 1.6 and its CVT are happy at a steady 120, but ask for an overtake with four aboard and the air conditioning on and the revs climb and stay there, so the car sounds busier than it is. Settle into the second lane, leave the outside lane to the people in a hurry, and it's a quiet enough car for the Abu Dhabi run. The Sunny has the same engine in a lighter, lower body, so it's marginally the livelier of the two, but it's also the noisier one at speed. If the highway is most of the rental, take the Kicks. If it's a one-off day, either will do.
Can I rent Nissan cars in Dubai for a group of eight?
Yes, with the Patrol, but count the luggage before you count the seats. Eight people flying in bring eight cases, and the boot behind the third row holds half that, so an eight-up airport pickup only works with soft bags or with the luggage sent ahead in a taxi while the people ride together. Where the Patrol earns it is the day trip: eight adults to Hatta with a cool box, and the two in the third row are comfortable for the hour and a half because it's a full-size row rather than a jump seat. For nine, or for eight with all their cases, the Hyundai Staria among the vans is the right call.
How much fuel does the Nissan Patrol use around Dubai?
Budget 15 to 17 litres per 100 km in city traffic and 11 or 12 on a steady 120 to Abu Dhabi, which is roughly double what the Kicks or the Sunny drinks on the same roads. The tank is 140 litres, so a full tank covers about 1,000 km of mixed driving, and filling it from near-empty is the moment most renters understand why the Kicks exists. On a week that stays inside Dubai, the fuel alone is the case for the smaller car. Check the fuel gauge against the handover form before the car leaves, and photograph it, so the level it went out at is never a matter of memory.