How Much Does It Cost to Rent a Rolls Royce Wraith?

Most people assume a Rolls Royce rental comes with a driver up front and you in the back. The Wraith is the Rolls you drive yourself, and it rents for $795 to $895 a day. That's how much to rent a Wraith before delivery, which is quoted by your address. Every day includes 100 miles, and your card takes a $1,000 hold.

Why the Wraith is the Rolls Royce you drive

The Wraith is a two-door fastback with four seats and a 6.6 liter twin-turbo V12. It makes 624 hp and 590 lb-ft of torque. No other V12 Rolls Royce makes more horsepower. It reaches 60 mph in 4.4 seconds and tops out at 155 mph. Rolls Royce stopped building it and put the electric Spectre in its place.

So the Wraith is built around the front seat. You sit low behind a thin wheel that feels huge for the first hour. There's no rev counter. A Power Reserve gauge sits in its place, and the needle drops the harder you push. The first inch of throttle does almost nothing, as if the car wants to know you mean it. Past that inch, the rear end settles and the whole car moves in one smooth surge.

The coach doors are hinged at the back and open wide. Each door is too long to reach from the seat, so a button pulls it shut. At a valet stand in Beverly Hills, that button is the first thing the attendant watches you press.

Rolls Royce Wraith rental price per day

When this was written, Wraith listings on the site showed $795 or $895 a day. Each rate applies in full for the first two days, and each includes 100 miles a day. The difference comes down to the year, the cabin, and the home base.

• 2018 Wraith, black over an ivory white cabin, $795 a day, $1,000 deposit, $5 a mile past the allowance, based in Orange County
• 2019 Wraith, black over a red cabin, $895 a day, $1,000 deposit, $4 a mile past the allowance, based in Los Angeles

The $795 car suits a night in Newport Beach. The ivory cabin is the reveal when the coach door swings open at the restaurant. After dark, the Starlight headliner glows above both rows. Its listing suggests Newport Coast Drive at dusk with the stars lit.

The $895 car is black over red, and the red stays hidden until a door opens. On Sunset Boulevard at night, the car looks like one long dark shape. Then the coach door swings back, and the red leather shows up all at once. You pay the extra $100 a day for that cabin and a Los Angeles base.

Where the mile rate moves the Wraith rental cost

The daily rate isn't the whole bill. The mile rate starts to matter once you pass the allowance. The ivory car bills $5 for each extra mile, and the red car bills $4.

Miles pool across the booking, so a two-day rental carries 200 miles total. Say your weekend runs 60 miles over. That costs $300 on the ivory car and $240 on the red one. On a long weekend, the cheaper daily rate loses some of its lead.

The Wraith gives you plenty of reasons to add miles. Angeles Crest Highway climbs out of the foothills above Pasadena. The light steering lets you place the long hood by feel instead of by muscle. Satellite Aided Transmission reads the navigation map and holds a gear into a bend before you brake. If you know the trip runs long, tell us at booking. The extra miles get priced in ahead of time instead of billed after.

How much to rent a Wraith for a week or a month

The daily rate drops on its own once a booking passes two days. You don't have to ask for the discount, because it comes from the length of the rental. Here is what the ladder does to each car's daily rate.

• 1 to 2 days, full rate, $795 or $895
• 3 to 4 days, 10% off, $715.50 or $805.50
• 5 to 6 days, 15% off, $675.75 or $760.75
• 7 to 13 days, 20% off, $636 or $716
• 14 to 20 days, 30% off, $556.50 or $626.50
• 21 to 27 days, 40% off, $477 or $537
• 28 days or more, 50% off, $397.50 or $447.50

So a week in the ivory car costs $4,452 before delivery. A week in the red car costs $5,012. At those rates, the Wraith stops being a special-occasion car and becomes the car you drive to dinner on a Tuesday. Overnight, it stays with the valet or in the hotel garage, and the keys stay in your pocket.

A long rental changes the mile math too. A week pools 700 miles. That leaves room for several evenings on Pacific Coast Highway through Malibu. Heading north, the ocean sits on your left and the V12 barely clears idle.

The Wraith rental deposit and the insurance call

The deposit is $1,000 on each Wraith listing at the time of writing. It's a hold on your card, not a charge. It's released after the car comes back in the condition it left. The hold covers small things like a curbed wheel. The ivory car rides on gloss black 21-inch wheels, so take the valet ramp slowly.

Damage goes to your own insurance, subject to your deductible. So the insurance check comes before anything else. You need to be 18 or older with a valid driver's license. You also need full coverage insurance in your own name, and a larger deposit may apply under 25.

Your policy has to extend comprehensive and collision to a rental car that isn't listed on it. That's called non-owner vehicle coverage. It means your policy covers a car you don't own. It can't carry an exotic or high-value exclusion. We call your carrier with an agent on a recorded line to confirm it before you get behind the wheel. A credit card's rental benefit almost never helps here, because most cards exclude cars worth more than $50k to $75k.

Three other cars for the same coast road

If you want the drive more than the badge, look at the McLaren GT. It rents from $895 a day with a $2,000 deposit. It has 612 hp, two seats, and 570 liters of luggage space under a glass tailgate. Its doors swing up instead of back, and the valet sees a supercar pull in instead of a Rolls.

The Bentley Continental GTC costs less and still seats four. It rents from $595 a day with a $1,000 deposit. Its fabric roof folds in 19 seconds at up to 30 mph, so you can drop it at a light in Laguna Beach. You give up the coach doors and the Starlight, and you get the open sky in return.

The Ferrari 488 Spider rents from $1,295 a day with a $2,000 deposit. It has 661 hp, two seats, and a metal roof that folds in 14 seconds. It's the louder way to take the same coast road, and every exit from the parking lot becomes an event.

What the Wraith isn't built for

The Wraith is a weekend car, not an airport car. The trunk holds about 470 liters, which fits a weekend bag or two. It won't take four suitcases at the LAX curb. The back seats suit two adults on a shorter trip. If a group is flying in, book a four-door instead.

The Wraith also asks something of the driver. The steering is light and gives little feedback, and you sit lower than you would in a Ghost. Most drivers settle in within the first few miles. Some never get used to the dead inch at the top of the throttle, and that pause is part of what you're paying for.

The Wraith costs the same whether it waits at the valet stand or climbs a canyon road. At $795 to $895 a day, the money only makes sense if you plan to drive it. Book the ivory car for an evening in Orange County. Book the red car for a night in Los Angeles. Leave the back seat to the sedans.